Laksa Soup – A Malaysian Coconut Curry Soup

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil like peanut oil or coconut oil)
• 1 laksa paste recipe for, or 1, 14 ounce Jar of Prepared Laksa Paste – see notes.
• 6 cups chicken stock or broth
• 8 kaffir lime leaves
• 1 teaspoon salt more to taste
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar or palm sugar
• 1 1/2 pounds chicken (breast or thigh meat) cut into bite-sized pieces
• 1 pound raw large shrimp (raw, peeled -or sub more chicken or veggies )
• 27 ounces full fat coconut milk Do not use “lite” – and if you like an even richer broth, add a third can.
• 2 limes Juice from
• fish sauce to taste ( I use 1 tablespoon)
• 1 pound dried rice noodles (2 ounces per person) (or 1 1/2 – 2 lbs fresh rice noodles from the refrigerated section of the Asian marke…
• bean sprouts
• lime wedges
• cilantro
• mint vietnamese
• scallions
• sambal chili paste
• shallots fried
• fried tofu cubes
• fish balls frozen
• scallops or other firm fish
• clams
• mussels
• veggies like snow peas, mushrooms, carrots, bell pepper, chopped spinach or greens etc….
• 5 dried red chilies ( 3 is medium spicy)
• 2 tablespoons dried shrimp (available at Asian Markets) optional see notes
• 5 shallots (about 1 cup) roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves
• 3 tablespoons galanga finely chopped
• 2 stock arge lemongrass- finely chopped (1/2 cup chopped) – feel free to use frozen chopped lemongrass at the Asian market.
• 2 teaspoons fresh turmeric (optional, and ground is OK, too)
• 6 candlenuts or substitute 12 soaked cashews, brazil nuts or macadamia nuts (soak in hot water 15 mins- optional- you can leave the nu…
• 1 tablespoon shrimp paste (or shrimp sauce) optional
• 2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 3 tablespoons peanut oil olive or vegetable oil