Thai
Tom Yum Kai Nam Sai (Clear Hot and Sour Chicken Soup)
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Tom Yum Kai Nam Sai (Clear Hot and Sour Chicken Soup) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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, galangal and torn lime leaves, and steep 10 minutes to infuse.
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Add the chicken and sliced mushrooms and simmer until the chicken is just cooked through, about 10 minutes.
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Add the crushed chilies and simmer 2 minutes more.
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Turn off the heat and season with the fish sauce and lime juice, tasting to keep the heat gentle and the sour bright.
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Ladle into bowls, pushing the whole aromatics aside as you eat.
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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 Yum Kai Nam Sai (Clear Hot and Sour Chicken 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. Tom Yum Kai Nam Sai (Clear Hot and Sour Chicken 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
- 280 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 19 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 1650 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Tom Yum Kai Nam Sai (Clear Hot and Sour Chicken Soup) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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