Tom kha kai, the Glossary
Tom kha kai, tom kha gai, or Thai coconut soup (ต้มข่าไก่) is a spicy and sour hot soup with coconut milk in Thai cuisine.[1]
Table of Contents
21 relations: Bird's eye chili, Chiang Mai, Chicken as food, Coconut milk, Coriander, Cymbopogon, Dill, Edible mushroom, Fish sauce, Galangal, Ginger, Kaffir lime, Lime (fruit), List of soups, Shiitake, Soup, Thai cuisine, Thailand, Tom khlong, Tom yum, Volvariella volvacea.
- Laotian soups
- Thai soups
Bird's eye chili
Bird's eye chili or Thai chili (พริกขี้หนู|lit.
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Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in Thailand.
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Chicken as food
Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.
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Coconut milk
Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. Tom kha kai and coconut milk are foods containing coconut.
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Coriander
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.
Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon, also known as lemongrass, barbed wire grass, silky heads, oily heads, Cochin grass, Malabar grass, citronella grass or fever grass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family.
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Dill
Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae.
Edible mushroom
Edible mushrooms are the fleshy fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi (fungi that bear fruiting structures large enough to be seen with the naked eye).
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Fish sauce
Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years.
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Galangal
Galangal is a common name for several tropical rhizomatous spices.
Ginger
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine.
Kaffir lime
Citrus hystrix, called the kaffir lime, Thai lime or makrut lime, is a citrus fruit native to tropical Southeast Asia.
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Lime (fruit)
A lime is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, green in color, in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles.
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List of soups
This is a list of notable soups.
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Shiitake
The shiitake (Lentinula edodes) is an edible mushroom native to East Asia, which is cultivated and consumed around the globe.
Soup
Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water.
Thai cuisine
Thai cuisine (อาหารไทย) is the national cuisine of Thailand.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Tom khlong
Tom khlong (ต้มโคล้ง) is a sour and spicy soup with smoked dried fish and various herbs. Tom kha kai and Tom khlong are thai soups.
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Tom yum
Tom yum or tom yam (ต้มยำ) is a family of hot and sour Thai soups. Tom kha kai and tom yum are thai soups.
Volvariella volvacea
Volvariella volvacea (also known as paddy straw mushroom or straw mushroom) is a species of edible mushroom cultivated throughout East and Southeast Asia and used extensively in Asian cuisine.
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See also
Laotian soups
- Ant egg soup
- Hot and sour soup
- Kaeng som
- Keng No Mai
- Khao piak sen
- Khao poon
- Khao soi
- Mee ka tee
- Tom kha kai
Thai soups
- Ant egg soup
- Hot and sour soup
- Kaeng pa
- Kaeng som
- Nam kaeng hua chai thao
- Nam tok (food)
- Pork blood soup
- Tom kha kai
- Tom khlong
- Tom som
- Tom yum
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_kha_kai
Also known as Toam-Kha-Gai, Tom Ka Kai, Tom Kah, Tom Kha Gai, Tom kha, Tomkha, Tomkha gai, Tomkhagai, .