Green Thai curry soup

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 2 tsp coconut oil
• 1 onion(s)
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 piece(s) fresh ginger, about thumb-sized
• 3 tsp, heaped curry paste, green or red
• 2 carrots
• 1 small zucchini
• 1 handful of morels, dried or fresh mushrooms
• 800 ml chicken stock
• 300 g pak choi
• 1 can coconut milk, approx. 400 g
• 500 g chicken breast fillet(s)
• 2 bell peppers of your choice
• e.g. salt and pepper
• e.g. chili
• e.g. cayenne pepper
• e.g. soy sauce

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 10 minutes

Pour a little hot water over the dried morels to allow them to swell. If using fresh morels or mushrooms, you can skip this step. Then slice the onion, carrots, bell pepper, and zucchini into as fine strips as possible. I always slice the carrots with a vegetable peeler so the strips are nice and thin. Cut the bok choy crosswise into strips about 0.5 cm wide. Remove the morels from the water and reserve the water. If necessary, trim the morels a little more and cut into pieces about 1 x 1 cm. Then cut the chicken breast fillet into small pieces and finally finely chop the ginger and garlic. Heat the coconut oil in a pan and sauté the onions over medium heat until translucent. Briefly fry the ginger and garlic, then add the green curry paste. If you don’t like it spicy, use red curry paste. Deglaze everything with 800 ml of chicken stock and add the morels. If you like, you can also replace some of the broth with the morel water. Simmer for about 10 minutes. Add the zucchini, carrot, chicken breast, bell pepper, and coconut milk and cook for another 10 minutes. Shortly before the end of the cooking time, add the bok choy and season to taste with soy sauce, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, or curry paste. When serving, you can sprinkle dried chili flakes on top as a garnish. Of course, you can add or swap out the vegetables according to your taste; this will not detract from the dish. The ingredients for 2 servings are absolutely sufficient for 2 adults as a main course. As an appetizer, it will be more like 4-5 servings.