5 vietnamese hot and sour soup Recipes

rice noodles, cooked, rinsed and drained as directed on package, chicken broth or 5 cups vegetable broth, stalks lemongrass, crushed and thinly sliced diagonally (use only bottom third to half of the stalk), shiitake mushroom, sliced (or button mushrooms), onion, thinly sliced, shrimp, cleaned and deveined, fish sauce (or slightly more to taste), fresh lime juice, fresh bean sprout, trimmed and rinsed, green onions, thinly sliced, fresh jalapeno chilies, seeded and thinly sliced, fresh cilantro, roughly chopped, fresh basil, roughly chopped

tamarind pulp* (from a 1-lb. brick ), vegetable oil, shallots, cut into 1/8-in.-thick slices, then dried with paper towels, garlic clove, minced, sambal oelek * or other chili paste, qt. reduced-sodium chicken broth, thai or vietnamese fish sauce, sugar, roma tomatoes, cut into 1-in. cubes, shredded green cabbage, fresh pineapple, cut into wedges, then into 1/8-in.-wide matchsticks, bean sprouts, raw shrimp (26 to 30 per lb.), peeled and deveined, several sprigs rice paddy herb or cilantro, chopped, thai basil leaves , torn into pieces, thai bird chiles or other small hot chiles, chopped, limes, cut into wedges

tamarind pulp, green onion, vegetable oil, chili paste, onion, cut coarsely, garlic, minced, soy sauce, water, sugar, lime juice, salt, pineapple, cut into chunks, mushrooms, chicken, tomatoes, cut into wedges, celery, mung bean sprouts, basil

dried rice noodles (flat , fettuccine-shaped), shrimp, salt, few drops sesame oil, chicken stock, preferably fresh, fresh galangal or fresh ginger, garlic cloves, smashed, stalks lemongrass (bottom third only, sliced thinly on the bias), shallots, sliced, serrano chile peppers, coarsely shredded , including seeds, thai or vietnamese fish sauce, sugar, whole fresh cilantro leaves, lightly chopped asian basil leaves, freshly squeezed lime juice, freshly ground black pepper