Kang liang koong sod (thai spicy mixed vegetables soup with fresh prawns)

Ingredients

• 350 g prawns
• ½ cup sliced baby corn
• ½ cup Pumpkin
• ½ cup Angled Gourd
• ½ cup Straw Mushroom
• ½ cup Hairy Basil leaves
• 4 cups vegetable stock or water
• 12 pepper corns
• 12 shallots
• 1 tbsp shrimp paste
• ½ cup dried shrimp
• 2 tbsp fish sauce

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Preparation

• Add pepper corns, shallots, shrimp paste, and dried shrimp in a mortar and pound until mixed thoroughly.
• Heat vegetable stock or water in a pot, then add spice mixture and keep stirring it. When the soup boiling, add fish sauce.
• Wait for another 20 seconds, then add sliced baby corn, pumpkin, angled gourd and straw mushroom.
• When vegetables are cooked thoroughly, add prawns. Taste and add fish sauce or salt as desired, then remove from heat.
• Transfer to a serving bowl and serve immediately with hot steamed rice.