Tom Tom Tom Ga Bacon Flavored Gai Soup

The Original

Ingredients:

- 2 boneless skinned chicken breasts
- 1 pint of chicken stock
- About 250 mls of coconut milk
- 8 birdseye chillis
- 2 stalks of lemongrass
- corriander(cilantro)
- A piece of ginger(galangal was what was needed but its hard to get a hold of here and everyone I asked looked at me as if i had just spat in their eye)
- The juice of a lime
- 4 tbsp of fish sauce

Slice the ginger up into really thin strips and cut the stalks off the chillis. Dice the chicken into bitesize cubes and then remove the outerleaves from the lemon grass until you get to the soft bit in the center. Now take a rolling pin or something heavy and batter the lemongrass and give the chillis a beating for good measure.

Step 1:
Place the stock in a pot and start to heat. While it is heating juice your lime.
When the stock is starting to get hot, put the lime juice, chillis, lemongrass, ginger and fish sauce in. And bring to the boil.

Step 2:
Once it starts to boil add the chicken and coconut milk, stir and bring it back to boil.
Once boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for about 2 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Keep stiring whilst doing this to avoid a skin forming. Remove the lemongrass.

Step 3:
Serve the Tom Kha Gai when ready and garnish with the corriander.

source : visualrecipes

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No lime - buy lemon
No chicken stock - buy chicken stock - no stock - nevermind, buy bacon stock
No xxeye chili - use dried chili
Chicken - any part will do

Steps.
1) Boil water with bacon stock
2) Cut ginger, soak dried chili in water, cut lemon.
3) Once boiled, throw (2) inside pot
4) Once boiled put chicken, coconut milk(the more the better) and coriander powder inside pot
5) Boil rice(I made nasi lemak!)
6) Should be ok kot...

Bacon is chicken right? ...

Weird fact : Whitney Houston's "It's not right but it's ok" played a total of 3 times on my comp while I was cooking ...

It's not right
But it's o.k.
I'm gonna make it anyway...

thats the spirit !

If you would donate a camera, I would take pictures of my Bacon flavored chicken tom kha gai ...