22 thai sauce coconut prawns Recipes

chicken stock or 1 1/4 pint stock made from oxo or bullion, stalks lemongrass , lower 1/3 minced or mashed in a mortar (or 6tsp of prepared lemongrass from a jar), kaffir lime leaves (depending on size of leaf), juice from 2 fresh limes or 4tbsp concentrated lime juice, cocuonut milk (or 1 block of coconut cream + 1/2 pint milk), ready cooked shrimp/prawns, thai or singapore fish sauce, red chilies, minced or 1/2 -1 tsp. dried crushed chili (to suit your taste), garlic, minced (or from a lazy garlic jar), fresh ginger (or 4tsp from lazy ginger jar), generous cups of fresh shiitake mushrooms or pack of dried shiitake or chestnut or button mushroom (whatever you have in the fridge), fresh coriander, sugar (to taste, so the soup is sweeter rather than tart ), al: a handful of cherry tomatoes or red bell pepper thin sliced

vegetable oil, garlic cloves, finely chopped, green onions, thinly sliced, carrot , halved lengthways, thinly sliced on the diagonal, stalks lemongrass, white part only, finely chopped, red chilies, seeded, finely chopped, mild indian curry powder (gluten-free if required for diet), coconut milk, fish sauce (gluten-free if required for diet), firm-fleshed white boneless fish fillets, cut into 6cm pieces, green king prawns, peeled, deveined , leaving tails intact, sugar snap peas, trimmed or 300 g snow peas, thai basil (use regular basil if not available), steamed jasmine rice and lime wedge, to serve