Chicken Sour Soup

Khmer regular soup that you can find easily in every restaurant in Khmer. Lot of Khmer people think about this soup first if they want some tasty menu for the lunch or dinner. Let’s do it.

Ingredients 

• 1 free range chicken
• 2-3 kaffir lime leaf 
• 3 slices ghalangal
• 1 lemongrass stalk
• 1 pkg of ling oyster mushroom
• 10-15 basil stems
• 10 saw tooth mint
• 5-6 red chilies 
• 2 tbsp of chicken mix
• 1 tsp of salt
• 8 L of water 
• 5-10 green onion
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 2 tbsp of sugar
• 2 tbsp of fish sauce
• 4 tbsp of lime juice

To do

1. Lightly smash the garlic and lemongrass.
2. Add in garlic, lime leaf, lemongrass, ghalangal, salt, chicken mix and ½ fish sauce add in chicken, cook 20 minutes (turn off heat and leave in pot for another 10 minutes).
3.  After hand-shred the meat leaving the skin on will make the broth oily.
4. Cut mushroom thinly.
5. Add in the mushroom and the chicken. Let it simmer on high for 5 minutes. 
6. Finely chop the saw tooth mint, basil stems, green onion and chilies.
7. Add in the rest of the fish sauce.
8. We added the herbs when the soup was plated so that the herbs stay fresh and aromatic. Ready to serve.