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🍽️ Thai-style Coconut Soup with Shrimp and Lemon Chicken Skewers
589 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 5 stalks lemongrass
- 1 lime
- 10 g fresh ginger
- 10 g galangal
- 1 red chili pepper
- 2 garlic cloves
- 500 ml coconut milk
- 500 ml vegetable broth
- 6 tbsp fish sauce
- 80 g mango flesh
- 1 red bell pepper
- 2 stalks celery
- 2 spring onions
- 120 g snow peas
- 4 tbsp soybean oil
- salt
- pepper
- 300 g chicken breast fillet (kitchen-ready; skinless)
- 8 large shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 1 pinch chili flakes
Instructions
- 1. Remove the outer leaves from the lemongrass and cut the stalk in half lengthwise.
- 2. Rinse the lime under hot water, dry it, and slice it into paper-thin rounds.
- 3. Clean the ginger and galangal, then slice both into thin rounds.
- 4. Wash the chili pepper, cut it in half lengthwise, remove the seeds and white membranes, and slice into thin strips.
- 5. Peel the garlic and slice it.
- 6. Combine coconut milk and broth in a pot and bring the mixture to a boil.
- 7. Add half of the garlic, 3 lime slices, the chili strips, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, and 3 tablespoons of fish sauce to the pot.
- 8. Simmer the soup over low heat for 15 minutes.
- 9. Cut the mango flesh into small cubes and place them in a tall blending cup.
- 10. Pour 2 ladles of the hot soup through a fine sieve into the cup with the mango.
- 11. Blend the mango and soup mixture until smooth using a hand blender.
- 12. Strain the remaining soup through a sieve and return it to the pot along with the mango puree mixture.
- 13. Cover the pot and set the soup aside.
- 14. Wash the bell pepper, quarter it, remove seeds and white membranes, and slice into thin strips.
- 15. Wash the celery, clean it, and slice it.
- 16. Wash the spring onions, clean them, and slice into thin rings.
- 17. Wash the snow peas, trim them, and cut them in half diagonally.
- 18. Cook the snow peas for 1 minute in boiling salted water.
- 19. Shock the snow peas in cold water, drain them, and let them drip dry.
- 20. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan.
- 21. Sauté the remaining garlic over medium heat.
- 22. Add the bell pepper, celery, and spring onion vegetables to the pan and sauté briefly.
- 23. Deglaze the vegetables with the remaining fish sauce.
- 24. Add the snow peas, season with salt and pepper, and keep the vegetables warm.
- 25. Wash the chicken meat, pat it dry, and cut it into bite-sized cubes.
- 26. Halve the remaining lime slices and thread them alternately with the meat cubes onto the remaining lemongrass stalks.
- 27. Wash the shrimp and pat them dry.
- 28. Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan.
- 29. Fry the meat skewers on all sides over medium-high heat for 5 to 7 minutes until golden brown.
- 30. Add the shrimp and cook them along with the skewers.
- 31. Season everything with salt and chili flakes.
- 32. Reheat the soup.
- 33. Taste the soup and fill it into bowls or plates.
- 34. Place the prepared vegetables into the soup.
- 35. Garnish each plate with one chicken skewer and 2 to 3 shrimp.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 589
- Protein: 41 g · Fett/Fat: 39 g · Carbs: 16 g