Recipe - Lemongrass Soup

8 cup Chicken stock
1 bn Cilantro
1 cn Straw mushroom
16 lg Shrimps; peeled, deveined
1 cup Snow peas
1/3 cup Shredded carrots; (just for
color)
Juice of 1 lime
One half teaspoon Crushed red pepper; (One half to
1)
1 Chili pepper; cut into rings
4 tablespoon Nam plah; (you can find at
Oriental food stores)
A few stalks of lemongrass;
(I would use about 6)

Bring the broth to a simmer. Add crushed red pepper and shrimp. simmer for
5 min. Add lemongrass and simmer for another 5 min. Add the rest of the
ingredients and simmer a few minutes more. Be careful not to over cook or
the vegetable will lose their color and will get limp.
Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 402 by "Diane. Geary"
diane@keyway.net on Dec 26, 1997