2 people · Easy · 30 min · ₭ Cheap

This super easy mushroom soup with is cooked with fermented fish sauce (Padek), Lao style. You just need one pot to cook :)

Ingredients

• 1 pack of white beech mushroom (yanagi matsutake), cut out the roots and rinse well
• 1 pack of brown beech mushroom (yanagi matsutake), cut out the roots and rinse well
• 1 small bowl of pumpkin, cut into bite-size pieces
• 1 small bowl of lemon basil leave, or sometimes it's called Hairy basil
• 1 stalk of lemongrass, cut in half and roughly smashed
• 4 Asian red shallots, roughly smashed
• 3 fresh chili, more or less
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• ½ teaspoon of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of Lao fermented fish sauce (padek)
• 0.6 L of water

Preparation

1. Fill up a pot with water and add salt, lemongrass, red shallots and chili.

2. When the water is boiling, add the fermented fish sauce (Padek), sugar, mushrooms and the pumpkin. Cook on medium to high heat for about 10 minutes or until the mushrooms and the pumpkin are cooked.

3. Add the Lemon Basil (hairy basil) and turn off the heat. Taste and ready to serve.