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Thai Hot and Sour Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup peeled ginger julienned
• 1 sliced onion
• 4 Thai bird chiles
• 3 stalks lemon grass, white part only, sliced
• 1/4 cup 3 Crab fish sauce
• 6 cups chicken stock
• 6 kaffir lime leaves
• 3/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup Thai basil leaves
• 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 2 cups sauteed sliced shiitake mushrooms
• 1 cup enoki mushrooms
• 1/4 cup sliced scallion
• 1/2 cup chopped scallions, green part only

Instructions

Saute ginger, onion, chiles and lemon grass until soft. Deglaze pan with fish sauce. Add chicken stock and lime leaves. Simmer and reduce the liquid by 20 per cent. Add vinegar, basil and pepper. Check for seasoning. Strain the soup. Add sauteed shiitakes and fresh enoki mushrooms. Ladle soup in soup plates. Garnish with shrimp toast and scallions.