EASY Lemongrass Soup (25 min)
A light but warming lemongrass soup, or coconut water chicken soup, that makes one feel warm and cozy in fall and winter. No sugar needed thanks to the natural sweetness of the young coconut. Plus, it's on the table in under 30 minutes, so perfect for a quick weeknight dinner!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups coconut water
- 1 shallot (a large one, halved and peeled (Substiute: onion, preferably red))
- 2 lemongrass
- 1 inch ginger (thinly sliced)
- 3 tomatoes
- 1-2 tablespoons lime juice
- Fish sauce
- Shrimp (Can poach in the soup)
- White Fish Fillet (Can poach in the soup)
- Noodles or Cooked Rice
- Tau kee ((fried beancurd))
- fried dried prawns ((hae bee))
- sliced red chilies
- spring onions
- coriander
Instructions
- 1
Add the chicken stock, coconut water, lemongrass, ginger and shallot to a pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- 2
Once the mixture is boiling, reduce to medium heat and let the soup simmer. You should be able to smell the fragrance of the herbs after 5 minutes, if not increase the heat slightly. Note: if adding chicken thigh meat, abalone, fish fillet or shrimp to the soup, add it the soup now.
- 3
Allow the soup to simmer for another 10-15 minutes to extract all the fragrance of the herbs. Make sure all the meat or seafood are cooked!
- 4
Add the tomatoes and lime juice & allow the soup to return to the boil.
- 5
Season with fish sauce, or salt, to taste.
- 6
The above makes the basic soup base which can be drunk as it is.
- 7
To bulk up the dish into a main, add either noodles or rice. Note: I like to add tang hoon (mung/ greenbean vermicelli) which is first soaked in hot water. Once the noodles have softened, they are then added to the soup. Give everything a stir for 1-2minutes then serve.Alternatively, you could add cooked rice to the soup once the soup has finished simmering to make “paofan” or submerged rice.