Coconut Milk Chicken Soup ( Tom Kha Kai)

A wonderful Thai Soup. Given to me by Cathy who got it from one of her students’ mother.  This recipe serves 4

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups coconut milk Nuts, coconut milk, frozen (liquid expressed from grated meat and water)
• 1 lb chicken, Skinned,boned and diced Soup, chicken broth, canned, prepared with equal volume water, commercial
• 1/2 lb fresh mushrooms, cleaned and halved Mushrooms, raw
• 1 oz fresh galangal, sliced
• 1 oz fresh lemon grass cut into 1" pieces Lemon grass (citronella), raw
• 5 kaffir lime leaves torn in half
• 2 fresh chillies optional, halved
• 1/3 cup lime juice Lime juice, raw
• 3 Tbs fish sauce Sauce, fish, ready-to-serve
• 3 tsp sugar Sugars, granulated
• 1 tsp salt Salt, table
• 2 Tbs chopped coriander Spices, coriander seed
• 1 Tbs roasted chilli sauce, use very little

Method

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