Thai
Kaeng Om Kai (Isaan Herbal Chicken and Vegetable Soup)
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Kaeng Om Kai (Isaan Herbal Chicken and Vegetable Soup) is Thai home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the soup and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring the chicken broth to a simmer with the bruised lemongrass and shallots.
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Add the chicken pieces and simmer until cooked through, about 12 minutes.
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Add the long beans and simmer 3 minutes more.
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Stir in the toasted rice powder to lightly thicken the broth.
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Season with the fish sauce and chili flakes.
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Turn off the heat and fold in the dill just before serving, so its flavor stays bright.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kaeng Om Kai (Isaan Herbal Chicken and Vegetable Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kaeng Om Kai (Isaan Herbal Chicken and Vegetable Soup) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 410 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 14 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 1600 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kaeng Om Kai (Isaan Herbal Chicken and Vegetable Soup) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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