Thai
Tom Kha Gai
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Tom Kha Gai is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. 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, galangal, torn lime leaves, and crushed chilies and steep 10 minutes.
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Pour in the coconut milk and return to a gentle simmer.
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Add the sliced chicken and cook until nearly done, about 6 minutes.
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Add the mushrooms and simmer until the chicken is cooked through and the mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes.
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Turn off the heat and season with the fish sauce, lime juice, and brown sugar, tasting for a balance of salty, sour, and sweet.
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Ladle into bowls, discarding the tough aromatics, and scatter cilantro on top.
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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 Tom Kha Gai, 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. Tom Kha Gai carries fish and coconut. It is free of the remaining 8 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 | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
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
- 520 kcal
- Protein
- 21 g
- Carbs
- 4 g
- Fat
- 47 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 750 mg
- Saturated fat
- 34 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Tom Kha Gai 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 lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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