Hi all,
If you live in the Northeast or the Midwest, you’re in for a cold weekend! At times such as these, I like to relax inside and enjoy some healthy and delicious Tom Yum Hed, a Thai soup that is vegan friendly. Here is our official Urban Hermits recipe! Enjoy!
Preparing Tom Yum Hed is very easy, the tricky part is making sure you have all of the right ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need:
8 cups water
1 lime
1 stick of lemongrass (if you can’t find the whole stalk, go ahead and buy a couple roots or packages of stalk, whatever your local store has. Full stalks are easiest to find at ethnic/asian grocers)
4-5 button mushrooms, but other types will do fine.
3 cubes of salted vegetable bouillon
1 firm tomato
fresh cilanto
2-3 stalks of green onion
thai basil (optional)
a chunk on ginger
3 cloves of garlic
1 red bell pepper
dried cayenne/red pepper
soy sauce
Put the 8 cups of water is a pot and heat it until a boil. While you wait, chop the red pepper and mushrooms, tomato and cilantro. Dice the garlic and green onion. When the water comes to a boil, add the 3 bouillon cubes and wait for them to dissolve.
Next, add the lemongrass, chunk of ginger, chili/cayanne pepper (to taste), the thai basil, and green onion. Also, cut the lime in half and squeeze out as much juice as possible into the broth.
Let the broth simmer with the added ingredients for a couple of minutes. Then add the mushrooms and chopped bell pepper.
Once the mushrooms and chopped bell pepper cook down a bit, add the chopped tomato and cilantro. You don’t want these to cook too long to avoid them becoming mushy. Let it go for a couple of a minutes and then you’re set!
For additional flavor, add soy sauce to taste! Enjoy!
Urban Hermits 