Grammy's Kitchen · Pad Thai · Creamy Tom Yam Kung (Thai Hot and Sour Soup
One of 136 pad thai recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
6 cooks on www.seriouseats.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 136.
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Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 480 g | 2 cups low-sodium homemade or canned chicken or pork broth |
| 170 g | 6 ounces fresh button or oyster mushrooms (or 1 1/2 cups well-drained canned straw mushrooms), cut into bite-size pieces |
| 6 to 7 fresh kaffir lime leaves, torn into pieces and lightly bruised (see note) | |
| 7 to 8 slices lemongrass, approximately 1/8-inch thick (see note) | |
| 7 to 8 very thin slices fresh galangal (see note) | |
| 2 tablespoons Nam Prik Pao (see note) | |
| 68 g | 1/4 cup fish sauce, or to taste |
| 4 to 5 fresh red bird’s eye chilies, crushed | |
| 454 g | 1 pound jumbo shrimp, peeled with the head and tail sections intact |
| 252 g | 1 cup evaporated milk, whole milk, or half-n-half |
| 61 g | 1/4 cup fresh lime juice, or to taste |
| 25 g | 1/4 cup lightly-packed cilantro leaves (or sawtooth coriander leaves, thinly sliced) |
Method: 3 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Unicornmaster (love your handle) - Yeah, it's hard to specify the exact amount of fish sauce since the level of salinity varies greatly from brand to brand. How much sodium is already in your broth is also a factor.Also -- and I'm glad you brought this up beca” — a cook
“I made this last night and I have to say I'm so PLEASED with myself for being able to pull this off and make delicious Tom Yam King at home. (Well I'm pleased with you too for telling us all about how to make it)Just a couple things, I left out the milk becaus” — a cook