Homemade Tom Yom Soup

Good evening. It is 8.12pm here in Malaysia and I have just taken my dinner. While waiting to take my bath ( my younger girl is in there and she takes at least 1/2 hour), I thought I would share with you a homemade Tom Yom soup.

On a cold day, it would be so wonderful to have a bowl of warm soup and here in Asia, we love hot and spicy soup and one of it is Tom Yom soup. Tom Yom is actually a Thai dish but we have concocted our own recipe which is also really delicious. This soup can be drank on its own as an appetiser. But here we add noodles to it. We also sometimes have it with rice. Wow! Really delicious.

We can buy the Tom Yom paste in the supermarket but some of us may not like the oil in the paste so here I will share with you a very simple but delicious recipe that is really mouth watering.

Ingredients :

1. 3 stalks serai

2. 3 tomatoes (you can add more)

3. 3 stalks kafir leaves (You can add more)

4. 1 carrot

5. bird eye chillies

6. 5 to 6 asam keping

(They are dry and smell sourish. They give the sour

taste to the soup )

7. 2 onions (You can add more)

8. some fish balls (If you like)

9. 1 chicken breast piece

10. 10 button mushrooms (optional)

Method :
1. Cut the chicken breast piece to small bites

2. Cut the onions into small chunks

3. Cut the carrot into small chunks.

4. Cut the tomatoes into small chunks.

5. Smash the serai and bird eye chillies

6. Put all into the pot of water and add in the kafir leaves.

7. Boil for 1 hour.

8. Add salt to taste.

Tips : You can add in anything that you fancy. And the best part is throwing everything in and allowing it to boil but mind you to keep an eye on the water level. We don't want a burnt pot of Tom Yom!

Here in this recipe I am using chicken. You can do away with chicken but use sea food products : prawns, cuttlefish and crab meat.

Have a nice dinner!