Question on a Thai Chicken Soup

Queen-Mise

Hi,

I am going to make a Thai Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk - but it lists Oyster Mushrooms as one of the ingredients. My hubby hates all fungi with a vengeance.

What could I use to replace the mushrooms?

The recipe also has chicken (obviously ), tomatoes, red chili, coconut milk, ginger, fish sauce, lime, juice & coriander.

I don't make enough Thai etc, food to be really familiar what works.

bluecherry74

A sliced red pepper would work well or some bamboo shoots if you can get nice quality tinned ones. Even fresh green bean would probably work.

Merkin

I cook tom yum quite a bit and button mushrooms are good to use instead of oyster. Add them to the dish as per the oyster mushrooms but they remain entirely intact through the cooking process (put them in near the end) and you can literally scoop them out of his portion before ready to serve

If you're really adverse to using them mange tout or long green beans works well.

Swiper the fox

Would you/he consider tofu, it will act like a mushroom in the dish and absorb all the flavours in the soup.
Besides that you could leave it out altogether or use any veg you want, frozen peas or similar would be fine and likely to be in your freezer.

I know its not what you are making but Tom Yum soup is my favorite dish in the world, when I was in Thailand a few years back I often had it for breakfast AND lunch, spent a fair bit of time on the toilet let me tell ya:o

Queen-Mise

OK - I'll go with the red pepper or the bamboo shoots.

Thanks for the tips.

Curry Addict

I am a Tom yum soup addict. you are missing an essential ingredient "chilli in oil" its a paste and the best one available is this..........