Recipe for Thai Ginger Chicken Soup - (Tom Khing Gai) 
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Yield:
1
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
2 cup chicken in bite-sized pieces
3 cup chicken stock - (to 4 cups)
2 x lemon grass stalks bruised
(this isnt eaten, but is an essential flavorant)
4 x fresh kaffir lime leaves - (to 5) shredded
2 x coriander/cilantro plants including roots chopped
1 tbl thinly-sliced Thai chile peppers
1 tbl dried chili peppers
Juice of 3 or 4 limes
2 tbl sliced bamboo shoots or asparagus (to 3 tbspns)
(this recipe is great with asparagus)
2 tbl fish sauce - (to 3 tbspns)
2 tbl thinly-sliced shallots
(or small red or purple onions)
1 tbl minced garlic
1 tbl fresh ginger minced
1 tbl minced fresh galangal
Instructions:
Instructions: Heat a wok dry, and warm the dried chilis, then crumble them. Add a little oil to the wok, and saute the chilis, ginger, galangal, shallots and garlic, until aromatic.

In a medium sauce pan, bring the stock to a boil. Add the sauteed ingredients, and the fish sauce and lime juice, and taste for balance. Then add the remaining ingredients, and bring back to a boil before adding the chicken. After about 1 minute taste for the balance of spices again, and then serve when the chicken is just cooked.

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