Thai-Style Soup with Shrimp

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2007

Traditional tom kha relies on ingredients such as galangal and makrut lime leaves to achieve bright, complex flavor. Our pared-down version with shrimp gets these from store-bought red curry paste.

SERVES 6 to 8 as an appetizer

TIME 50 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a complex Thai-inspired coconut soup recipe, we developed a rich base by using equal parts chicken broth and coconut. Our substitution for some of the traditional ingredients was jarred red curry paste, which includes all the flavors we...

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