Khao Tom (Thai Rice Soup) Recipe
This flavourful bowl of rice soup with minced pork meatballs is the perfect day starter. Customize with your own choice of condiments ranging from preserved eggs to pickled radish and of course plenty of Thai chiles in fish sauce (nam pla phrik).
Ingredients
12 cups pork or chicken stock
4 tsp grated fresh gingerroot
4 lg shallots; minced
2 stalk lemon grass; 2" pieces
1 1/4 cups Thai Hom Mali Jasmine rice (new crop rice)
1 lb ground lean pork
1/4 cup Nam Pla (Thai fish sauce)
Directions
Garnish:
sliced shallots deep-fried
sprigs of fresh cilantro
pickled salted radish
sliced green onions
Roasted Thai Chile flakes
Nam Pla Phrik (chiles sliced in fish sauce)
Method:
In a large stock pot combine boiling stock with ginger, shallots, lemon grass, add rice. Optional pair of fresh Kaffir Lime leaves).
Return to a boil, lower heat and gently simmer, stirring
occasionally, for 30 to 35 minutes, or until rice is very soft.
Remove and discard lemon grass. Add the pork (form into little meatballs) and simmer 5-8 minutes more until pork is cooked.
Finish with fish sauce to taste. *Reminder use a good brand such as Golden Boy!
Garnish with scallions, deep fried shallots and cilantro.
Variations: Add a raw egg to each bowl, or a salted egg half. Salted eggs are availble at Asian markets. You also can soft poach the egg as it ill not completey cook w added to the bowl of oup
I will continue this series of Thai Breakfasts with recipes of rice noodle soups, egg dishes, fried rice dshes, and such enjoyed by Thais for breakfast.
sliced shallots deep-fried
sprigs of fresh cilantro
pickled salted radish
sliced green onions
Roasted Thai Chile flakes
Nam Pla Phrik (chiles sliced in fish sauce)
Method:
In a large stock pot combine boiling stock with ginger, shallots, lemon grass, add rice. Optional pair of fresh Kaffir Lime leaves).
Return to a boil, lower heat and gently simmer, stirring
occasionally, for 30 to 35 minutes, or until rice is very soft.
Remove and discard lemon grass. Add the pork (form into little meatballs) and simmer 5-8 minutes more until pork is cooked.
Finish with fish sauce to taste. *Reminder use a good brand such as Golden Boy!
Garnish with scallions, deep fried shallots and cilantro.
Variations: Add a raw egg to each bowl, or a salted egg half. Salted eggs are availble at Asian markets. You also can soft poach the egg as it ill not completey cook w added to the bowl of oup
I will continue this series of Thai Breakfasts with recipes of rice noodle soups, egg dishes, fried rice dshes, and such enjoyed by Thais for breakfast.
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Thailand Breeze says :
Another type of Thai rice soup you can buy from the street vendors in Thailand is just plain rice soup.
You have many choices of food to eat with it, such as deep deep friend pork sausage [ghoon-chieng], friend salted fish, shredded mango salad with dried shrimps and salted egg.
Posted on: 1 March 2010 - 10:51am
GWL says :
At Saladang Song in Pasadena I ate a vegetable breakfast soup. It had pumpkin, taro and yams with rice in a broth seasoned with ginger and lemongrass......and topped before serving with crunchy browned garlic, hot pepper and cilantro. It can also have an egg on top.
Trust me, this soup is even more flavorful than the typical recipes with pork...
Posted on: 21 January 2010 - 12:34am
reehmeo says :
Thanks for this submission. Having travelled throughout Thailand I had hoped to recreate this dish for my classmates at the Culinary Institute of America. Thanks for supplying this article. Now I just have to find the unique ingredients. I always ate this dish made with ground meats such as chicken and pork. Always good.
Posted on: 27 June 2009 - 5:35am
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