23 oysters tomato cups Recipes

vegetable broth, stalks lemongrass, peeled and cut into 4 inch pieces, fresh kaffir lime leaves (optional), vegetable oil, minced garlic, peeled minced fresh ginger, roasted chili paste, chopped oyster mushrooms or 1 1/2 cups white mushrooms, fresh lime juice, fish sauce or 2 tbsp soy sauce, chopped tomato, minced fresh cilantro, hot green chili peppers, seeded and halved (optional), rice noodles

broth (through step 1) can be prepared up to 2 days in advance. just remember to withhold the lime juice until the last moment; otherwise, its flavor and aroma will dissipate. if you can locate lemon grass at the market, feel free to add a stalk to the , trimmed of its fibrous top and bruised with the flat side of a knife. for maximum heat, do not seed the chiles., canned low-sodium chicken broth, fresh ginger (1/2-inch), cut in half and smashed (see illustration below), garlic , lightly crushed with skins on, fish sauce, cilantro stems , including roots, plus 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh cilantro leaves, sugar, jalapeno chiles , stemmed and sliced crosswise into 1/4-inch rings, tomatoes , cored and chopped coarse, cremini mushroom , oyster, or button mushrooms, wiped clean and quartered (or cut into sixths if large), shrimp (about 41 to 50 per pound), peeled, juice from 2 limes