4 tom soup chicken prawns shrimp 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

water or chicken stock or vegetable stock, uncooked shrimp or prawns, unpeeled, stalk lemongrass, sliced, kaffir lime leaves stem removed and torn * 1/2 cup straw mushrooms cut in half, pea eggplant (eggplant cubed into small pieces will do), kaffir leaves stem removed and torn, thai fish sauce, fresh lime juice, sliced fresh dried or matured galangal, red bird s eye chilies * 1 tbsp fresh chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves

chicken stock, lemongrass, galangal, straw mushrooms, tiger shrimp, lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, chili in oil, kaffir lime leaves, red chilies, sliced, whipping cream or 100 ml heavy, coriander leaves (cilantro), chili oil