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15-Minute Tom Yum Noodle Soup
August 6th, 2012Recipes, 30-Minute Recipes, Recipes, Recipes, Thai Recipes25 Comments
Tom Yum Noodle Soup Recipe
Ingredients:
1 roll packaged soba noodles
1 1/4 cups water
1 stalk lemongrass, white part only, pounded and bruised
5-6 kaffir lime leaves, bruised
4-5 slices fresh galangal
1/2 small tomato, cut into 3 to 4 wedges
6 medium-sized shrimp, shelled and deveined
6 canned straw mushrooms or fresh oyster mushrooms, cut into halves
1 1/2 tablespoons Nam Prik Pao (Thai roasted chili paste)
1/2 tablespoon fish sauce or to taste
3 dashes chili powder
1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice
Cilantro leaves, for garnishing
Method:
Prepare the soba noodles according to package instructions. Usually it takes about 5 minutes or so to cook the soba noodles. Drain the noodles, rinse with cold water and set aside in a serving bowl.
At the same time, bring the 1 1/4 cups water to boil in another small pot. Add in all the aromatics, follow by the shrimp, mushrooms, and nam prik phao. Keep boiling until the shrimp is cooked through. Add the fish sauce and chili powder. Turn off the heat, add in the lime juice. Stir to combine well.
Pour the Tom Yum soup over the noodles and topped with some cilantro leaves. Serve immediately.
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That looks really good. Can I have some please? Love your video.
Want. A. Bowl. Right. Now.
Looks good. I can’t wait to try this!
Hi, I love Thai food but I don’t deal well with spicy food. Does the quantity of chili paste in this recipe make the noodles very spicy?
Not really. I used Pantai brand roasted chili paste and it’s quite sweet. I added chili powder because of that. However you can cut down to your taste.
That looks so good, its making me hungry just looking at it.
You should definitely make it.
Looks amazing, I love Tom Yum Noodle Soup! Is there supposed to be palm sugar in this recipe though? I read on your front page that’s part of this recipe? Thanks!
No palm sugar, but palm sugar is widely used in Thai cooking.
oh right ok! will try to cook this as aoon as i have stocked up, thanks :)
Agreed! That’s the easiest tom yum noodle soup ever. Looks so delish :)
ps: Love the video, Bee. So creative :)
Thanks Kiran. :)
First time cooking. Forgot to put fish sauce, and didn’t put tomato. Tom yum soup wasn’t flavorful enough.
Nice recipe though, will try again next time.
You have to put fish sauce. Without it, it’s not Tom Yum.
that for the great recipe, normally i will add golden mushroom which make it taste even better.
This soup looks amazing; I LOVE shrimp in my soup. What a beautiful recipe; thank you for sharing!
:3 woohoo.. simple/multitasking is the key word ._. will make it..
A yummy looking healthy soup. And FAST :-)
What do you suggest as an alternative to kaffir lime leaves?? I went to four grocery stores, and can’t find them either fresh or dried. =(
I have used lime zest as a substitute. I minced the zest finely and add to my taste preference.
I use lime zest as a substitute. I mince it finely and add it to my taste preference.
Hi, I love Thai cooking, great recipes
Thanks
bans.
Hello Rasa,
Really like this website. Thank you.
My girl friend is Chinese blood but was born in Indonesia. She grew up in Sumatra and later moved to Java; close to Jakarta. I get some very good food between her mother cooking and me cooking. I cook Arabic, Persian, Italian & Greek but for a bit over a year now have tried my hand at Indo & Malay.
I really love all of it so far. Eh-hem…..exCEPT the uhhhh….durian. Wow what a fruit. I thought a sewer pipe had busted. Anyways….that part of the world has some REALLY good desert/fruit dishes that I really like too. I typically like the Korean & Chinese deserts cuz they are very light on the sugar but, Indo/Malay uses some very good fruits ( and palm sugar if needed, which I like ).
Love your website and thank you for ‘turning on’ so many Americans to the great cuisine from the other side of the World.
I just made this and it turned out fabulous! My first time cooking with kaffir lime leaves & galangal too. I doubled the recipe and stuck to the measurements exactly. I will make this again, and again, and again! I served it with a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale along side which complimented the soup perfectly! Cheers to you! Thank you for sharing your recipe!
This was delicious and a hit! I had to do some substitutes though. Couldn’t find Kaffir Lime Leaves so substituted with: bay leaves + fresh thyme + lime zest. Also, couldn’t find galangal so used ginger, just a little more of it. & did without the soba noodles. Will definitely be making this again…