Thai Breakfast Rice Soup with Shrimp (Khao Tom Goong)

🥘 Ingredients

• ?extra ground white pepper
• Chinese preserved cabbage (tang chai)
  ?
• cilantro (chopped)
  ?
• cilantro stems (or @cilantro roots{2})
  6
• cooked jasmine rice
  3 c
• fish sauce
  1 tbsp
• fried garlic
• garlic
  3 cloves
• garlic oil
• green onion (chopped)
  ?
• pork stock (or @chicken stock{3%cups})
  3 c
• shrimp (cut into small chunks, extra whole ones)
  about 150g, about
• soy sauce
  ½ tbsp
• white peppercorns (until fine)
  ¼

🍳 Cookware

• pan
• pot

1. 1

   Pound white peppercorns , then add garlic and cilantro stems and pound until fine. Add half of this paste to your small pieces of shrimp and mix well.

   white peppercorns: ¼ (until fine), garlic: 3 cloves, cilantro stems: 6 (or @cilantro roots{2}), shrimp: about 150g (cut into small chunks)
2. 2

   Saute the small pieces of shrimp in a pan with a little bit of oil just until it's cooked through. Deglaze the pan with some pork stock (unsalted) as needed and scrape any bits of herb stuck to the bottom. Remove from pan and set aside.

   pork stock: 3 c (or @chicken stock{3%cups})
3. 3

   If using whole garnish shrimp, sear the whole shrimp over medium high heat until browned and cooked through, set aside.

   shrimp: about (extra whole ones)
4. 4

   Bring the stock to a boil in a pot , add the other half of the herb paste and simmer for ⏱️ 1 minute .
5. 5

   Season with fish sauce and soy sauce , then taste and adjust seasoning.

   fish sauce: 1 tbsp, soy sauce: ½ tbsp
6. 6

   When ready to serve, bring the broth to a boil over high heat then add cooked jasmine rice and the shrimp. Bring the soup back to a simmer, and immediately turn off the heat (if you let this simmer for a long time the rice will swell up and absorb too much stock).

   cooked jasmine rice: 3 c
7. 7

   Serve immediately, if you let this sit, the rice will continue to absorb liquid. Ladle into a bowl, and top with all the condiments as desired: fried garlic & garlic oil , green onion and/or cilantro , Chinese preserved cabbage , ?extra ground white pepper if needed.

   fried garlic, garlic oil, green onion: ? (chopped), cilantro: ? (chopped), Chinese preserved cabbage: ? (tang chai), ?extra ground white pepper