• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Nordic Food & Living
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Breakfast
      • Nordic Bread
      • Bread
      • Jam - Spread - Dip
    • Lunch
    • Dinner
      • Pork
      • Chicken
      • Fish
      • Pie
      • Tapas
      • Fast and Easy Food
    • Desserts
      • Nordic Dessert
      • Cake
      • Pie
      • Ice Cream
    • Side Dish
      • Bread
      • Salads
      • Jam - Spread - Dip
      • Snacks
    • Healthy Food
    • Traditional Danish
    • Nordic Christmas
    • Kitchen guides
  • Travel Guides
  • About Me
    • Privacy Policy
  • In Danish
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Traditional Danish
  • Nordic Bread
  • Nordic Christmas
  • Nordic Dessert
search icon
Homepage link
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Traditional Danish
  • Nordic Bread
  • Nordic Christmas
  • Nordic Dessert
×

"Home" » Dinner

"Home" » Dinner

Creamy Thai Soup with Ginger, Chili and Garlic (Tom Kha Gai)

Published: Aug 24, 2014 · Modified: Jan 25, 2021 · About 3 minutes to read this article. · By Kim Nielsen

Tom Kha Gai - Thai Soup with Ginger, Chili and Garlic

You can buy many different, and often actually pretty great, prepared soups from the grocery store. These prepared soups are great when you are in a hurry - they are easy to heat in a saucepan or in the microwave oven and if you throw in a couple of meatballs or boiled noodles you have a decent dish. However, in our opinion the best soups are they homemade ones. The time it takes to make a homemade soup varies a lot from the most simple tomato soup to a more advanced Chinese soup. This recipe for thai soup with ginger, chili and garlic is relatively simple to cook and it is super delicious and creamy.

I love this soup because it has many great and tasteful ingredients that are packed with great vitamins that are healthy for your body. We normally serve this soup with some fried chicken filet strips which is low on fat and rich on proteins - but the soup is also great alone.

The soup has a can of coconut milk which gives a nice taste and makes the it smooth and creamy - all above together makes this soup one of our all-time favorites. It goes perfectly for the summer time as well as for the cold winter time. The soup is original called Tom Kha Gai and can be served with some boiled noodles and some homemade bread.


Creamy Thai Soup with Ginger, Chili and Garlic (Tom Kha Gai)


4 people
Preparation time: 50 minutes

Ingredients:
2 tsp oil for frying
1 tbsp (1 piece) lemongrass, finely chopped
2 tbsp freshly grated ginger
1 clove garlic
1 red chili, finely chopped
3-4 Kaffir lime leaves, finely chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 can coconut milk
1 liter (4 cups) chicken stock
1 tbsp fish sauce
400 g (14 oz) chicken filet
2-3 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped
The juice from 1/2-1 lime
egg noodles

Instruction:
Step 1: Prepare all the vegetables.
Step 2: Heat up some oil in a sauce pan and fry the ginger, garlic, lemongrass, Kaffir lime leaves and the chili while stirring. Pour in the coconut milk, fish sauce and chicken stock and let it simmer for about 8-10 minutes.
Step 3: Cut the chicken filet into smaller pieces and fry them.
Step 4: Boil the noodles according to the instructions indicated on the egg noodle packaging.
Step 5: Mix the chicken pieces and the chopped spring onions (scallions) in the soup. Add lime juice to taste.

Serve the soup with the boiled noodles and some chopped spring onions (scallions) as topping.



Homemade Tom Kha Gai

Homemade Tom Kha Gai

Homemade Tom Kha Gai

Homemade Tom Kha Gai

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Catheleen

    January 25, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    What kind of noodles

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen

      January 25, 2021 at 7:32 pm

      I normally use thin egg noodles. Sorry, I have forgot to add this information to the recipe - I will update the recipe now. Regards Kim (NordicFoodLiving.com)

      Reply
  2. Laura

    August 11, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    Could you use lime zest if lime leaves are not readily available.

    Reply

Write me a comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Give my recipe a rating




Primary Sidebar

Owner of Nordic Food and Living
Follow www.NordicFoodLiving.com on facebook

Footer

COPYRIGHT © 2024 - Nordic Food & Living - By Kim Nielsen