California Tom Yum Soup

Ingredients

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  8 cup or 1.89kg

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw, year round average

  2 large whole or 364g

• Peppers

  Hot chile, sun-dried

  2 pepper or 1g

• Brown sugar

  1 ½ tbsp or 14g

• Tom Yum Yum

  Thai Spicy Rice Cracker Mix - Graze

  100g

• Mushrooms

  Oyster, raw

  800g

• Soy sauce

  Regular sodium, Shoyu

  100g

• Lime juice

  Raw

  ⅓ cup or 81g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  ¼ cup or 4g

Directions

1. Bring the water to a boil in a medium saucepan, add the raw tomato, guajillo chile, and sugar. Simmer for a few minutes, until the tomato softens a bit, add the Tom Yum Paste*.
2. Allow to simmer for a minute or two, before adding the mushrooms. Simmer until tender, just a minute or two. Add a small splash of shoyu or soy sauce, and about half of the lime juice. Taste, and adjust with more of either, if needed. Place 1/4 cup of chopped cilantro in the base of each bowl, and top with the soup.
3. Recipe by: Heidi Swanson (source: https://www.101cookbooks.com/california-tom-yum-soup/)