Tom Kha Gai
 
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 2-3 red Thai bird's eye chilis
  • 4-5 kaffir lime leaves
  • 1 thumb-sized piece of galangal
  • 1-2 pieces of lemongrass
  • 1 small chicken breast
  • a handful of cherry tomatoes
  • a handful of small white mushrooms
  • a lime
  • 7-8 tablespoons of fish sauce
  • 400ml of coconut milk
  • 500ml of chicken broth
Instructions
  1. Deseed and chop the chillies into very thin rings. Slice galangal into paper-thin pieces.
  2. Chop lemongrass into 10cm long pieces and crush with the butt-end of a knife. Add lime leaves,
  3. chili, lemongrass and galangal to pot with the coconut milk.
  4. Slice chicken into thin strips, quarter the mushrooms and half the cherry-tomatoes.
  5. Bring the coconut milk almost to a boil and add the chicken. Allow the chicken to cook on high
  6. heat for a good 5 minutes.
  7. Add broth, tomatoes and mushrooms and simmer for another 20 minutes.
  8. Flavor with the juice from a squeezed lime and fish sauce.
Recipe by El Cookbook at https://elcookbook.wikaina.com/tom-kha-gai/