Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Tom yum shrimp
Hot-sour broth. Lime and fish sauce at the end so they stay loud. Frozen shrimp last.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Hot-sour broth. Lime and fish sauce at the end so they stay loud. Frozen shrimp last.
What it needs
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- shrimp
- stock
- lime
- fish sauce
- chili flakes
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mushrooms, cilantro.
Method
- Simmer stock with chili, ginger or lime leaves if you have them, until it smells loud.
- Shrimp in last so they just curl. Mushrooms can go earlier.
- Lime and fish sauce off the heat. The broth should be hot-sour, not a mild soup you hide with noodles.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- StockPulling gelatin and flavor out of bones and aromatics without pulling out the things that make it cloudy and bitter.thin and watery · cloudy · bitter · greasy
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- StocksClassic Chicken Broth/Stock | Chef Jean-PierreChef Jean-PierreThe plain classical method, including when to skim and why nobody bothers to explain it.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Cocktail structureBasic Cocktails - How To Make A DaiquiriCocktail ChemistryThe plainest sour there is, which makes base-acid-sweet balance easy to taste rather than merely read.197K+ views at the September 2026 review. · Link checked 2026-09-08
- StocksHow to Make Roasted Chicken Stock | Chef Jean-PierreChef Jean-PierreRoasting the bones first, then a long low simmer. The color and the depth both come from that first step.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- shrimp
- Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
- stock
- Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- fish sauce
- Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.
- chili flakes
- Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
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