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Chicken and Coconut Milk Soup (Gaeng Com Yam Gai)

Make Chicken and Coconut Milk Soup (Gaeng Com Yam Gai) at home with Thin Coconut Milk, Chicken Bite Sized, Lemon Grass Cut Into Lengths, Laos Powder, and Green Onions. Serves 1. Keep it handy for the next time you cook it.

Ingredients

• 5 cup
• 1
• 3 stalk
• 2 tsp
• 3
• 2 tbsp
• 4
• 3 tbsp

Method (preview)

1. 1

   A lovely lemony, creamy soup, Dom Yam Gai calls for chicken pieces cut through the bone with a heavy cleaver, Chinese style.

2. 2

   If you find gnawing on chicken pieces and delicately trying to remove the bone, vainly searching for a place to deposit it, inhibiting your dinner conversation, you may debone the bird and substitute chicken pieces.

3. 3

   In a saucepan, bring the "Thin" coconut milk to a boil.

4. 4

   Add the chicken pieces, lemon grass and Laos powder.

5. 5

   Reduce heat and simmer until the chicken is tender, about 15 minutes.

6. 6

   Do not cover as this will tend to curdle coconut milk.

7. 7

   When the chicken is tender, add the green onions, coriander leaves and chillies.

8. 8

   Bring the heat up just below boiling.

9. 9

   Remove the pan from heat, stir in lime juice, fish sauce and serve.

10. 10

    Posted by Stephen Ceideburg; February 6 1991.