Matt Sinclair's Thai coconut soup with prawns
This easy prawn soup takes just 15 minutes to cook and is a delicious combination of coconut milk, ginger, lemongrass and chilli with a squeeze of lime juice.
Serves
6
Prep
15m
Cooking
15m
Ingredients
- 2 x 400ml cans coconut cream
- 1L salt-reduced chicken stock
- 2 stems lemongrass, halved, bruised
- 2.5cm-piece ginger, peeled, cut into matchsticks
- 2 birdseye chillies, halved lengthways
- 1 bunch coriander, leaves picked, roots reserved and bruised
- 5 kaffir lime leaves
- 1kg raw prawns, peeled leaving tails intact, deveined
- 100g oyster mushrooms, torn, or button mushrooms, quartered
- 2 tbs fish sauce
- 1 tbs lime juice
- Pinch of sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Thinly sliced long red chilli, to serve (optional)
Method
STEP 1
Bring the coconut cream and stock to the boil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add lemongrass, ginger, birdseye chilli and reserved coriander roots. Tear 4 lime leaves and add to the pan. Reduce heat to low and simmer gently for 10 mins.
STEP 2
Add prawns and mushroom to the pan. Simmer for 2-3 mins or until prawns change colour. Remove from heat.
STEP 3
Stir in the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and salt. Taste and add more fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and salt if needed.
STEP 4
Finely shred remaining kaffir lime leaf. Remove lemongrass from soup and discard. Divide soup among serving bowls. Sprinkle with shredded lime leaf, coriander leaves and chilli, if using.
Dietary Information
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