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Now that you have your kitchen set up for Thai cooking, we are going to walk through a recipe to make a green curry soup. If you want you can add chicken to this recipe, otherwise it is vegetarian.
The ingredients you will need are peanut or vegetable oil, garlic, fresh ginger, green curry paste, chicken breast (if using), mushrooms, red pepper, chicken or vegetable stock or water, fish sauce, one tin of coconut milk, Chinese noodles, salt to taste.Peel a clove of garlic and chop very finely. Cut off about 1 inch knob of ginger and peel it with the edge of a spoon. Chop ginger finely or use a grater. In a large pot, heat about 1 tablespoon of oil over a moderate heat. Add the ginger and garlic and saute for a few minutes until garlic is golden. Do not allow it to burn or the garlic will be bitter.
If you are using chicken, cut it into bite size pieces and add to the pot. Saute the chicken until it is no longer pink on the outside.
Clean about 10 mushrooms with a damp cloth. Cut the end off of the base of the mushrooms and slice fairly thinly. Take the red pepper and slice it in half from top to bottom. Remove the seeds and the white membrane and chop it into small pieces. You will need about half of the pepper for this soup so reserve the rest for another use. Add the peppers and mushrooms to the pot and stir for a minute or two.
Add between 1/4 teaspoon and 1 teaspoon of green curry paste, depending on how hot you like your soup. Add about six or seven cups of chicken or vegetable broth or of water. If you are using a commercial broth, you probably won't need to add any salt to your soup.
Add a tablespoon or so of the fish sauce. Don't let the truly awful smell of it put you off. It will taste good-really. You can bring the soup to a boil, but then turn it back down to a medium heat. If you boil it for long your chicken will be tough.
After 10 minutes or so add a couple of hands full of Chinese noodles and stir them in. They will take a few minutes to cook. Shake the tin of coconut milk well and add to the soup. Heat through.
This should make two generous bowls of soup.
Next time, you will learn how to make stock yourself.
Difficulty level: Easy
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