- Make soup
- Make rice noodles (optional)
Thai grilled mushroom soup
This soup is fragrant, unique and incredibly delicious. Serve it with a side of rustic bread or rice noodles. (Soak the rice noodles in the boiling liquid from the soup for maximum flavor!)
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Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
- 4 chicken legs or thighs
- 2 onions peeled and cut in half
- 4 carrots peeled and cut in half
- 4 cloves garlic peeled
- 1 can crushed tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 2 stalks lemongrass cut into thirds
- 1 cinnamon stick or 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons fresh ginger peeled and cut in half
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1 1/2 tablespoons salt pink Himalayan
- 4 portabello mushrooms sliced
- 1/2 cup cilantro chopped
- 1 tablespoon salt (pink Himalyan)
Directions:
- Prepare a large pot on high heat. Add the olive oil and get hot. Add the chicken, onions, garlic, carrots and crushed tomatoes. Let cook for 6 minutes, mixing often.
- Add the curry powder, lemongrass, cinnamon stick, fresh ginger and 5 cups of water and cover. Let cook for at least 1 hour on medium heat (best if up to 4 hours on low heat).
- Add the coconut milk and honey and let cook for 10 more minutes. (Avoid serving the lemongrass, cinnamon and chunks of ginger, those are just for flavor.)
- Prepare a grill pan on high heat. Spray it with olive oil. Add the mushrooms and grill for 2 minutes per side.
- Place mushrooms and cilantro in soup right before serve. Salt to taste.
Notes & Tips:
If you have chicken stock or leftover chicken soup on hand, this soup can be made in minutes! Add chicken stock, lemongrass, cinnamon, honey and ginger to the stock. Let cook for 30 minutes. Add the coconut milk and cook 10 more minutes. Add the mushrooms and cilantro right before serve. If you can’t find lemongrass you can use lime juice (1/4 cup) and 2 teaspoons of curry powder. If you don’t have cinnamon sticks you can use ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon.
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Leftover tips for tomorrow’s lunch:
If you are reheating this soup, don’t do it with rice noodles (they will get too soggy) Just reheat the soup and add the cold or room temperature rice noodles at the end. If you want the soup to taste different when you eat it tomorrow add scallions, purple cabbage, sprouts and more fresh cilantro!
Can is use regular fresh mushrooms (champignon) ifI can’t get Portobellos?
Do Portobello mushrooms taste different and/or is the texture different.?
What if I do not have either lemongrass nor lime juice ? I would have to make a special trip to the shuk. And not sure it is available with mehadrin hechsher.
We do not like Cilantro,is Petrollia ok ?
Of course you can use any mushrooms you please! Each mushroom has a different flavor but they will all add to the soup beautifully in their own way! You can leave our both ingredients of lemongrass and lime juice, but be sure to try it again when you have those ingredients (tekoa farms grows lemongrass with a great Hechsher!) If you don’t like cilantro I would use fresh basil in this recipe instead. Enjoy!