Recipe - Thai Chicken Coconut Soup

3 cn TO
4 cn Coconut milk
(the unsweetened kind)
3 tablespoon Chopped scallions
1 teaspoon TO
3 teaspoon Lemon grass
Cilantro (pref. fresh) *
Tofu
cubed into smallish pieces
Chicken
also cubed to bite size.
Mushrooms
1 Carrot; grated
Juice from (8?) limes
I can never put in enough
Serrano chillies
OR other hot chili pepper,
preferably fresh,
but powdered will do)
1 teaspoon Galanga powder

* (I sometimes leave this out. Niels says that's defeating the whole
point, but I think it still comes out great)

Instructions: ============= Heat the coconut milk in a pot. Add everything
else. As the lemon grass is inedible, put it in a tea ball and immerse the
ball in the soup so you can retrieve it later. Cook until the chicken is
done and the soup is hot (30 minutes?). Taste to see if it needs more limes
(it always does) or more hot peppers (it's better to start mild and build
up to the desired level of spicyness).

Posted by Tamar More based upon an ingredient list

From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)