Spicy Thai-Style Shrimp Soup

Overview

🍽️ Serving Size:4-6

👩‍🍳 Cooks in the Kitchen: Maia

🔪 Prep Time: 1 hr, 🍳 Cook Time: 1 hr (includes 20 min hands-off time)

⏱️ Total Time: 2 hr

Ingredients

• 5¼ cups chicken broth
• ½-in piece ginger, cut in half and smashed
• 2 Tbsp fish sauce
• 2 large garlic cloves, lightly crushed with skins on
• 4-6 cilantro stems, including roots, plus ¼ cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1-2 jalapeño chiles, stemmed and sliced crosswise into ¼-in-thick rings
• 2 tomatoes, cored and chopped coarse
• 8 oz cremini, oyster, or white mushrooms, stemmed and quartered if small or cut into sixths if large
• 8 oz medium shrimp (41-50 per lb), peeled and deveined
• 3 Tbsp lime juice (2 limes)

Cooking Details

I used 12 oz shrimp instead of 8 oz. I used cilantro without roots. This was quick and easy to make.

Food Review

It tasted good. Jacob didn’t love it and thought the shrimp were over cooked. This dish would benefit from a side of noodles or rice.