A bowl of tom yum soup with prawns

Tom yum soup

Name: Tom yum soup
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 750ml chicken stock; 1 lemongrass bashed; a thumb-sized piece ginger thinly sliced; 1 bird's-eye chilli halved; 2 cloves garlic bashed; 2 torn lime leaves 1 thinly sliced to serve (see notes below); 2 plum tomatoes roughly chopped; 125g button mushrooms quartered; 150g raw peeled prawns; 1 tbsp soft light brown sugar; 1 lime juiced; 1 tbsp fish sauce

Published: September 11, 2018 at 4:01 PM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 30 mins

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Ingredients

Nutrition

750ml chicken stock
1 lemongrass

bashed
a thumb-sized piece ginger

thinly sliced
1 bird's-eye chilli

halved
2 cloves garlic

bashed
2 torn lime leaves

1 thinly sliced to serve (see notes below)
2 plum tomatoes

roughly chopped
125g button mushrooms

quartered
150g raw peeled prawns
1 tbsp soft light brown sugar
1 lime

juiced
1 tbsp fish sauce

Nutrition: per serving

kcal193

low
fat1.3g
saturates0.6g
carbs15.7g
sugars13.1g
fibre3.4g
protein27.8g
salt3.6g

Method

step 1

Put the chicken stock into a pan over a medium heat and bring to the boil. Add in the lemongrass, ginger, chilli, garlic and torn lime leaves, turn down and simmer gently for 15 minutes. Add the tomatoes and mushrooms, and simmer for 5 minutes.
step 2

Tip in the prawns and simmer for 4-5 minutes or until pink, then remove from the heat. Take out the lemongrass, lime leaves and garlic, and discard. Season with the sugar, lime juice and fish sauce, and serve with the sliced lime leaf.

You can buy fresh kaffir lime leaves from Asian grocers or large supermarkets, or frozen in packs from large supermarkets.

For more ways to use prawns in your cooking, check out our prawn recipes

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