Khao Tom (Thai Rice Soup)

Categories: Rice | Soups & ste | Taste | Pork

Serves: 4 Servings

Ingredients:

6 c Pork or chicken stock
1 tb Minced fresh gingerroot
2 lg Shallots, minced and crushed
1 Stalk lemon grass, cut into
-2" pieces
3/4 c Rice
1/2 lb Minced ground pork
2 tb Thai fish sauce
1 Cubes firm bean curd, for
-garnish
Sliced scallion, for garnish
Deep-fried shallots, for
-garnish
1 Sprig fresh cilantro, for
-garnish

Instructions:
In a large saucepan combine stock with gingerroot, shallots, lemon grass,
rice and salt to taste. Bring to a boil and simmer, stirring occasionally,
for 20 to 30 minutes, or until soup is a porridge- like consistency. Remove
and discard lemon grass. Add the pork and fish sauce and simmer 5 minutes
more. Garnish with scallion, shallots and cilantro.

>From Taste Show #TS4824

Recipe by: David Rosengarten Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #578 by "Master
Harper Gaellon" on Apr 19, 1997

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