(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Young tamarind shoots
4 kaffir lime leaves
3 stalks lemongrass
4–5 slices galangal
1 tomato
Coriander
6 pieces
dried mushroom protein
10 Bhutan
oyster mushrooms
Seasonings:
¼ teaspoon
veggie soup powder
¼ teaspoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
½ tablespoon
tamarind juice
8 dried red chilies
700 milliliters water
Vegetable oil
- Heat some oil.
- Meanwhile, cut the lemongrass thinly.
- Cut the galangal for about 4-5 pieces, finely.
- Grind the lemongrass and the galangal. Grind them all finely.
- Fry 6 pieces of protein until golden brown on both sides and then keeps it aside while draining the oil out.
- Fry the chilies until golden. And then break them into pieces.
- Sauté the mixed lemongrass, galangal, and the coriander until it become fragrant.
- Pour in 700 milliliters of water. Let it boil.
- Meanwhile, slice the coriander for about 2 centimeters long. Cut the roots off.
- Dice finely the tomatoes.
- Tear the kaffir lime leaves into half.
- When the water is boiling, add in the mushroom protein. But before, break the mushroom protein into smaller size, not too big.
- Put in the chilies. The chilies need to be slice and crush to open.
- Add in the torn kaffir leaves.
- Add in the Bhutan oyster mushroom.
- Stir a bit.
- Add in the vegetable soup powder, the brown sugar, the soy sauce, the tamarind juice.
- Mix it.
- Add in the tomatoes and the young tamarind shoots.
- Stir it.
- When the soup is cooked, sprinkle in the coriander.
- Serve it in a bowl.