I've only made this with chicken and chicken broth, but the flavor is fantastic! I make some basmati rice and serve the soup over it, and it's absolutely fantastic. My local stores don't have the lime leaves or lemongrass stalks, but I have found a lemongrass paste that works quite nicely! Still tastes wonderful to me, thank you for the recipe! It's a keeper!
Amazing! I actually made this to use up a container of baby portobellos rather than turkey and it was delicious. I hardly ever have seconds but did with this. I think it would be a good way to use boring leftover rice as well. Definitely a new go-to. Thanks Chef John for another great recipe
I make a lot of soup from recipes on Allrecipes.com, and in my opinion, this is among the best.
I am not a big fan of fish so I halved the fish sauce. Even so there was a fairly strong fishy flavor. Outside of that the recipe was fabulous. I used minced lemongrass (and a lot of it!) and significantly more lime juice. I would make this again but likely completely omit the fish sauce.
Very authentic just like at Thai temple. Once the fish sauce was overpowering but it was the brand I used when I could not find the kind I like. It's worth a trip to an asian market to get the good stuff just be sure it is fresh. I think I picked up an old bottle the time it was not good.
Just tried this recipe with leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and it did a great job masking the old turkey flavor and creating a delicious soup. It has a mild flavor but is definitely a comfort food style soup with a unique flavor. Thanks Chef John!
What a good idea for using up leftover turkey and I did make the broth with the bones too. I used some grated lime rind for the lime leaves.
Very tasty. I added a few touches of my own though. Added lemongrass stalk white & sweet potatoes celery.
Turned out great! I used shrimp instead of turkey in mine
I used my home made turkey broth and leftover turkey from thanksgiving. I forgot the mushroom and used lime zest instead of leaves since my area does not sell the leaves. The son and nephew said it was ok my hubby said it was ok too but nothing speacil.