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Tom Yum Mui Fan

Servings: 4

Ingredients
  

Chicken marinade
  • 250 g chicken breast sliced
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • white pepper to taste
  • 2 tsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp corn flour
  • 1 tbsp cooking oil
Prawn & vegetable
  • 12 prawns cleaned and vein removed
  • 3-4 bunches of cai xin cut into 2 inch pieces
  • Handful of sliced button or straw mushrooms
Gravy
  • 600 ml chicken broth
  • 4 lime leaves crushed
  • 5 slices of galangal
  • 3 shallot
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 2 lemongrass bruised and cut into 2 inch pieces
  • 1-2 coriander root
  • Juice of 1 lime or to taste
  • 2 chilli padi smashed
  • 1-2 tbsp fish sauce or to taste
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 egg lightly beaten
  • 1 to mato cut into wedges
  • Corn starch slurry
Assembly
  • 4 servings of cooked rice
  • Chopped coriander for garnishing

Method
 

Chicken marinade
  1. Add all ingredients except cooking oil together and set aside to marinate while you prepare the other ingredients.
  2. When ready to cook, heat pan, and add cooking oil.
  3. Brown chicken on both sides, then remove from pan and set aside.
Gravy
  1. In the same pan, toast chilli padi, shallots, garlic, lemongrass, and galangal until lightly browned.
  2. Add chicken stock and bring to boil, then add lime leaves and coriander root.
  3. Cover, reduce heat to medium and allow to infuse for 5 minutes.
  4. Then fish out and discard lemongrass, shallot, garlic, lime leaves, coriander root, and galangal.
  5. Add musrooms, tomato, cai xin stems, and prawn.
  6. Allow to cook for a minute.
  7. Season with fish sauce, sugar, and lime juice.
  8. Add in cai xin leaves, and give it a quick stir.
  9. Thicken gravy with corn starch slurry.
  10. While stirring, pour in beaten egg.
  11. Remove from heat, and stir in reserved chicken pieces.
  12. Serve over steamed rice, garnish with coriander.

Notes

Make it child-friendly by omitting the chilli padi.