(Spicy Prawn Soup )
Preparation
Ingredients
10 medium prawns 2 lemon grass 5 kaffir lime leaves 200 g straw mushrooms 4 cups
chicken stock 1 cup fresh milk 7 red bird's-eye chillies 3 tablespoons roasted
chilli paste 2 tablespoons tamaind juice 2-3 tablespoons each of fish sauce and
lime juice
Preparation 1. Clean the prawns, split along lengh-side bodies.
2. Bruise and pound lemon grass, chop into the medium pieces. Split the
mushrooms. Thorn the kiffer lime leaves into small pieces.
3. Put the lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves into boiled stock, simmer for 3
minutes. Add the prawns, mushrooms and simmer until the prawns cooked.
4. Add the roasted chilli paste, tamarind juice, fish sauce, lime juice, fresh
milk to taste. The soup should be spicy sour and little salty. Garnish with the
coriander leaves.