Thai Soup~ Tom Kha with Shrimp and Snow Crab Legs!

Tom Kha with Shrimp and Snow Crab Legs!

My family LOVES Tom Kha soup!!  We especially love it with shrimp and snow crab legs in it!!  Trust me, this is such a great tasting soup!! Get slurpin' and crackin'!!! 

8 cups good quality chicken stock
3 cans thick coconut milk, 4 if not very thick
3 Tbsp red curry paste
2 Tbsp Thai seasoning- (lemon grass, ginger, cilantro, chili pepper blend)
2-3 Tbsp brown sugar- to taste
1/4 to 1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
1/2 small yellow onion-sliced thinly into strips
roughly 4 Oz. fish sauce-added in slowly,  to taste
.25 oz. basil, Thai basil if you can get it, chopped
1 bunch scallions- chopped small
3 Roma tomatoes- cut in 8ths
Juice of 3 large limes
2 cans straw mushrooms- drained and rinsed
1 serrano pepper cut into small rings
2 Tbsp grated fresh ginger
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes, or more, to taste
30-40 count large raw shrimp-peeled and deveined
2 clusters precooked, thawed snow crab legs
SERVE WITH COOKED RICE NOODLES!! Can find those in the Asian section of your grocery store, same with the Thai Seasoning blend! *Keep some cilantro, and scallions aside, to top soup off when serving!  That bright green really POPS!!!

Peel and devein the shrimp.  These little guys are going to be GOOD!!

Add all ingredients to soup, but not the shrimp or crab til the soup is simmering, and all the flavors are just right. When all flavors are just right, add the the seafood, and cook til the shrimp is orange in color and cooked through, and crab is warmed up!  Do not over cook or seafood will get hard!! *note: if soup is not salty enough, add more fish sauce- if it is not sweet enough, add more brown sugar- if it is not spicy enough, add more pepper flakes- if it seems to need more lime juice, add more!  Make it your own!! :)

We serve this soup with Thai rice noodles, cooked beforehand, and lots of napkins!!  (can't really see the noodles in this pic, but they are in there!) You are going to get 'dirty' eating this with all the crab you'll be cracking!  SO WORTH IT, THOUGH!!  It's amazing!! <3  Hope you LOVE it, too!!