How to cook Thai Spicy Seafood Soup

Learning to cook Thai Spicy Seafood Soup is easy if you know the proper way to add the ingredients. Now you can learn to cook this dish at home using the online video. In the online video you will be taught by Thai Chef Chanrat Karatna, nickname Air, and his staff not only how to cook Thai Fried noodles but about the ingredients. In the second video you will see how his students do at his cooking school Air's Thai Culinary Kitchen in Chiang Mai Thailand.

Copy the recipe below then watch the cooking Thai Spicy Seafood Soup video.

Thai Spicy Seafood Soup
"Po Taek"

2 cups of water or chicken stock
50g shrimp or prawns
50g Sea Bass, skinned and cleaned
50g squid and cut into 2cm pieces
50g mussels in their shell cleaned (optional)
50g crab in shell cleaned (optional)
5 kaffir leaves torn
3 this slices of fresh or dried galangal
1 stalk lemongrass cut into 1 -- 2 inch pieces
2 ½ tbsp Thai fish sauce
2 ½ tbsp lime juice
¼ cup sweet basil leaves
Pinch of salt
3 green and red birds eye chilies
1 dried red chili, fried slightly and cut into ½ inch pieces

Wash, peel and de-vein prawns or shrimp, remove the heads but keep the tails intact.

Bring water or stock to boil in a sauce pan over medium heat then add lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves. Cook until fragrant. Add all the seafood except the shrimp or prawns (DO NOT STIR) and wait until they change color then add the shrimp or prawns. Cook a few more minutes then add the sweet basil leaves, swirl gently and turn off heat.

In a serving bowl, (Do this while waiting for the sauce pan to boil) combine lime juice, chilies and fish sauce. Add the ingredients from the sauce pan when done to the serving bowl. Mix bottom to top and top with the dried red chilies and sprig of sweet basil. The soup should be spicy, sour and salty with aroma of sweet basil and dried red chilies.

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[GetDamage]

I might be wrong but I think somewhere in the recipe should have included either tamarind paste or tom yum paste right?

[chefcommons]

Nice work, we liked your video very much so we embedded it on ChefCommons . com w/ link back and reference to Youtube. (Let us know if you don't wish for it to be featured)

[carlosgbuendia]

its hard to understand what the chief cook is saying with the sound of all the clattering plates

[ScotmanUK2000]

Looks good!

[firelord9000]

yummy xD