Authentic Thai Coconut Soup

Name: Authentic Thai Coconut Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound medium shrimp - peeled and deveined; 2 (13.5 ounce) cans canned coconut milk; 2 cups water; 1 (1 inch) piece galangal, thinly sliced; 4 stalks lemon grass, bruised and chopped; 10 kaffir lime leaves, torn in half; 1 pound shiitake mushrooms, sliced; 1/4 cup lime juice; 3 tablespoons fish sauce; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 1 teaspoon curry powder; 1 tablespoon green onion, thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes

"This soup is for Asian-food lovers. If you have all the ingredients on hand it's easy to put together and makes the perfect comfort food. If not, it only takes one trip the Asian market. It's so versatile you can make it vegetarian or substitute chicken for shrimp. Enjoy!!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients

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Why it works: Lemon grass and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 407 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Authentic Thai Coconut Soup

8 servings

Prep15 min

Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

584Calories

35 gProtein

29 gFat

57 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Shiitake	1/2 cup (73g)	34
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon Grass	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Kaffir Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Water	not in our table	0
Galangal	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Lemon grass + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together407 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Coconut + lemon grasstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together274 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together934 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lemon grass + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together13 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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