4 Elements Every Soup Needs (Thai Chicken Soup) | America’s Test Kitchen
Sam Block explains the four elements needed to build a great broth via her method for a satisfying bowl of creamy, spicy and sour Thai chicken soup. Making any great soup starts with prepping your aromatics, building a complex foundation of flavor, and carefully layering vegetables, meats, and citrus during the cooking process. The addition of bright, crunchy garnishes like herbs and chopped chiles at the very end finishes off the perfect bowl, ensuring levels of flavor in every spoonful.
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Love Sam, and love chicken soups, so certainly a must save.
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Galangal freezes very well. I cut into chunks and freeze in a ziplock bag.
Tonight’s dinner!
thank you
The random le cruset with the lid akimbo in the background is so funny to me 😂
Great to see Sam again!
Sam needs more screen time.
Wow look at that all clad pan drip and make a mess everywhere when she pours. They make such good pans and artificially make the worse so you have to buy the more expensive version with the curved lip…
Why a knife? You’ve seen the Cleaver!
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It is practically culinary heresy to skip the galangal in Thai coconut chicken soup! 🙁
She looks and sounds like she's doing a Saturday Night Live parody of a cooking show.
Soups are week overall. Unless it's a lentil soup. 🍲(Weak after two weeks)
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It does sound delicious, but it’s not for somebody on a low salt diet. I wish Thai cooking were available low salt, but, of course that is part of what makes it delicious.
7:40 those aren’t eighth inch thick slices
But cilantro is an herb not a vegetable.
I am thinking the first batch of coconut milk can be safely skipped if want a lighter soup.
For some people, cilantro tastes like soap. Since they don't know what the rest of you are tasting/smelling, they don't know what to substitute for the cilantro. Is there something that would be a good substitute for cilantro?
I’ve used lemongrass before, but I didn’t like the texture. However, now you’ve taught me how to cut it correctly! I’ll try the fresh again even though I can buy puréed lemongrass in a tube in my local grocery store.
Haven't seen the video yet but I'm gonna guess… Sodium, Chlorine, Hydrogen and Oxygen?
I definitely want to make this. I just need to find lemongrass and buy some more fish sauce. The last bottle of fish sauce I had I tipped over in my cupboard and 5 years later I still can't get the odour out 😂
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This was really well read making it easy to follow I was thinking she looked like Joan London. Instead of Christine but still really cute.
As it contains fish sauce a tablespoon of caviar as entry would make it rich's soup. delicious!
Impressive, thank you! What an awesome presenter, as well!!!
I seriously thought she was Christine Baranski when I first saw her!:)
I like her more serious mature approach. She’s more professional and I can take her more seriously. I’d only seen her in a few other videos but she didn’t have this kind of presence. Could be that I just didn’t see other more serious videos of her but I like this side of her best.
I can’t wait to make this!
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