Recipe - Hot And Sour Mandarin Soup

3 cup Vegetable stock
1 teaspoon Nam Prik Pow sauce
1 Inch Lemon grass
finely chopped into rings
3 Kaffir lime leaves
roughly torn into three
1 teaspoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Lemon juice
2 ounce Oyster mushrooms
coarsely separated
OR button mushrooms
2 small Fresh red or green chilis
(more if desired)
crushed to split open

TO GARNISH
Coriander leaves

In a large pan, bring the vegetable stock to the boil and stir in the Nam
Prik Pow sauce. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer, stirring well
until the mushrooms are just cooked but still al dente. Pour into a serving
bowl and garnish with coriander leaves.

Source: Thai Vegetarian Cooking by Vatcharin Bhumichitr Typos by: Karen
Mintzias

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