Chicken And Mushroom Soup Hot And Sour Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 lemon grass stalk
- 2 cups hot chicken stock
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, diced
- 2 tsp Thai red curry paste
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 1 1/2 cups shiitake mushrooms, sliced or canned straw mushrooms, halved
- 2 tsp dark brown sugar
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- juice of 1 lemon
- salt and ground black pepper
- 1 scallion, thinly sliced
- 1 red chili, thinly sliced
- handful of cilantro leaves
Directions:
- Flatten the lemon grass stalk with a rolling pin or meat mallet and place in a pan with the chicken stock, chicken, curry paste, and shallot; bring to a boil.
- Add the mushrooms to the pan and simmer gently for 10 minutes.
- Stir the sugar and fish sauce into the soup and simmer for 3 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
- Squeeze in the lemon juice and season to taste.
- Ladle the soup into bowls and scatter the scallion on top, chili and cilantro.
- Serve immediately.