[Sca-cooks] RE: [Sca-cooks]Thai food (was Galangal)

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, this does make soup for an army...notice the 12 whole chicken breasts!
However, you can cut it back for however many you wish to feed.  I think this fed
around 80 or so.

So far as the galanga root is concerned, the dried pieces were what I used the
last time I fixed it.  And I used that number of pieces.

And yes, it is, I think, a kind of comfort food...I know folks got really upset
when I did Festival of Kites and didn't include this dish...but then I can't
document it as period.  I know that it's traditional for Thailand...but period???
I dunno.

Kiri

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Kiri-sama...the soup sounds divine, but three and three-quarters QUARTS
> of coconut milk???? Yikes, but that'd be expensive to buy in the little
> cans at my local market..... Does this make soup for an army??? And what
> size galanga root pieces? I can't get the fresh stuff, but I can get it
> in the little dried chips, or ground up.  How much would be an
> equivalent substitute?
> --Maire, who thinks this could become her new chicken comfort soup this
> winter....
>
> Elaine Koogler wrote:
> >
> > After all of this, I'm going to have to break down and make some of my Thai
> > chicken soup....OK...I know, here's the recipe:
> >
> > LEMON GRASS SOUP
> >
> > 2.5 QTS CHICKEN BROTH
> > 3.75 QTS. COCONUT MILK
> > 3 C. LEMON JUICE
> > 3 C. FISH SAUCE
> > 18 PCS. GALANGA ROOT
> > 18 PCS. LEMON LEAVES/LEMON ZEST (GRATED)
> > 1/4 C. LEMON GRASS
> > 6 8 OZ CANS STRAW MUSHROOMS
> > 12 WHOLE CHICKEN BREASTS, SLICED INTO 1" PIECES
> > 12 ? FRESH GREEN CHILIS, SLICED 1/8" THICK
> > 3 t SUGAR
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