Ingredients:

• Onion – 1 small one chopped into cubes
• Oil – 2 tbsps
• Prawns – 200 g
• Lime leaves – 4
• Lemon grass – 3 sticks
• Chicken stock or fish stock- 2 cups
• Tomatoes – 1 small cut into cubes
• Lemon juice- 5 tbsps
• Soya sauce – 2 tbsps
• Fish sauce – 2 tbsps
• Chilli paste – 2 tsps
• Coriander leaves for garnishing
• Mushrooms -5 cut lengthwise
• Sugar- 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan and add onions. Saute till transparent.
2. Add the chicken stock.
3. When it starts to boil. Add lemon grass, ginger and prawns.
4. Make a paste of fish sauce, soya sauce and chilli paste. Add it to the chicken stock.
5. Cook for 5 mins and add the mushrooms, lime juice and sugar one after the other.
6. When prawns are done, add tomatoes and garnish with finely minced coriander.

Recipe courtesy of Vandana