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Dinner · 25 min · 2 bowls

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

easy

Why tonight. Hot-sour broth. Lime and fish sauce at the end so they stay loud. Frozen shrimp last.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • shrimp
  • stock
  • lime
  • fish sauce
  • chili flakes

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mushrooms, cilantro.

Method

  1. Simmer stock with chili, ginger or lime leaves if you have them, until it smells loud.
  2. Shrimp in last so they just curl. Mushrooms can go earlier.
  3. Lime and fish sauce off the heat. The broth should be hot-sour, not a mild soup you hide with noodles.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

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.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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