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cooking a delicious soup

If you want a real tasty soup,
try and you
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Soup - Hot and Spicy

 
 


  
Cacciucco Livorno (Seafood Soup Delights)

      Cooking time 20 minutes Serve 6

      Ingredients

  • 90 ml olive oil

  • 1 clove garlic, chopped

  • 1 small red capsicum, chopped

  • 300 g shelled prawns

  • 4 squids

  • 100 ml dry white wine

  • 2 tbsp tomato puree

  • ˝ tsp grated lemon rind

  • 1 cup water or stock

  • Salt and pepper to taste

  • 100 ml halibut, sliced

  • 300 g cod fillet, sliced

  • 250 g scallops, shelled and sliced












 



Cacciucco Livorno (Seafood soup delights)
 

 

    Method

  1. Fry garlic and red pepper till garlic is fragrant.

  2. Add shrimps and squids, cover and simmer
    for 10 minutes.

  3. Pour in wine and cook till it evaporates.

  4. Add tomato puree, lemon rind, stock, salt and pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes.

  5. Add cod, halibut and scallops.
    Simmer till fish are done.

  6. Serve hot with bread.

 

 

 
    Chili Tomato Soup
   
Cooking time 9 minutes, serve 4
 
    Ingredients (A) Spices          Other ingredients

   2 cm cinnamon stick

   5 cloves

   5 cardamoms

   2 tsp fennel

   ˝ tsp ground turmeric

   ˝ tsp ground cumin

   1 tsp chicken
   curry powder

 

2 onions, sliced

6 cups water

400 g tomatoes,
sliced thinly

1 red chili, sliced

2 pips garlic, sliced

3 slices ginger

chicken stock

Salt and pepper to taste

 

 

   

Garnishing:
   
1 tsp each of diced spring onion, chopped
    Chinese parsley, and chopped coriander leaves

   
    Method

  1. Heat oil. Fry all spices over medium
    fire for 3 minutes.

  2. Add onion slices and stir fry for 1 minute.

  3. Add the rest, except for the garnishing. Bring to boil, turn fire to low and simmer for 5 minutes.

  4. Garnish and serve hot.

        Chili tomato soup  


 

Thai Tomyam Soup
Cooking time 12 minutes, serve 5
Ingredients
  • 400 g fresh prawns, sliced half lengthwise
  • 4 limes squeezed for juice
  • 1000 ml water
  • 4 kaffir lime leaves
  • 4 stalks lemon grass, squashed
  • 2 long celery, cut into pieces of 1 cm
  • 2 tomatoes, wedged
  • roots of 2 stalks of Chinese celery
  • 5 - 10 birdseye chili, uncut
  • 2 big onions, sliced
  • 2 tbsp chili oil
  • sugar, salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce or soy sauce
  • 4 birdseye chili, celery leaves and
    kaffir leaves, all chopped, for garnishing

Method

  1. Except for prawns and limes, boil everything in a pot for 10 minutes to bring out the fragrance and the hotness of chili.
  2. Add prawns and bring to boil for 1 minute.  Ensure the prawns are not over-cooked. Add lime juice. Add in sugar, salt, pepper and Thai fish sauce.
  3. Garnish and serve hot to feel the 'kick' .

sssSSH...Grandma said: To get the authentic taste of tomyam, roots of celery, and celery stem must be used.
Alternative: Can be used as a soup base for tomyam with flat rice vermicelli.

 
Thai tomyam soup
 


 

Thai tomyam soup with noodle

                                                                               

The Not-So-Soupy Tomyam Noodle

You may have another variety of Thai Tomyam noodle that is not so soupy, i.e. not too much of the soup. Prepare the noodle with the right hardness. Place the a shallow bowl. Meanwhile, pound the following ingredients. 3 tbsp coriander roots, 2 fresh chilies, 2 cloves garlic. Sauté over medium-low fire till fragrant. Pour in any ingredients you like, for example, carrot, cauliflower, corn, prawns, squids, etc. Stir fry very vigorously over high flame for 1 minute. Add to noodle. Add steamy hot tomyam soup, just enough to cover the noodle. Add 2 tbsp soy sauce. Garnish with birdseye chili and coriander

 
leaves, or kaffir lime leaves          The Not-So-Soupy Tomyam Noodle

 


                                                                                               
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