🇹🇭 Thailand
Tom Jued, made with supermarket ingredients
The authentic flavor in three easy steps with what any supermarket sells, in metric, for students and anyone cooking far from home (serves 2).
15 min2 to wash
3 lazy steps
- 1
Mix minced pork, light soy sauce, and ground white pepper in a bowl, then shape into bite-sized meatballs.
- 2
Bring chicken broth, crushed garlic, and coriander roots to a boil in a pot over medium-high heat for 3 minutes, then add the meatballs and simmer for 4 minutes until cooked through.
- 3
Add napa cabbage, glass noodles, and sliced egg tofu, season with fish sauce, and simmer over medium heat for 3 minutes until cabbage is tender.
🇹🇭 How it's eaten in Thailand
In Thailand, this soup is garnished with fried garlic and fresh cilantro leaves, served hot alongside steamed jasmine rice.
Cooked from this recipe
Mitsuba instead of cilantro, with ground pork, firm tofu and ginger, all from a Japanese supermarket. The mitsuba suits it well.
Ingredients (serves 2)
- minced pork200 g
- egg tofu1 tube
Swap: silken tofu 250 g（easy to find）
- glass noodles45 g
Swap: thin rice vermicelli 45 g（common substitute）
- coriander roots2
Swap: cilantro stems 4（similar aroma・optional）
- garlic3 cloves
- napa cabbage 500 ml shredded
- chicken broth950 ml
- light soy sauce1 tbsp
Swap: soy sauce 1 tbsp（pantry staple）
- fish sauce1 tbsp
- ground white pepper1/2 tsp
Swap: ground black pepper 1/2 tsp（pantry staple）
Authentic ingredients in Thailand
- minced pork200 g
- egg tofu1 tube
- glass noodles45 g
- coriander roots2
- garlic3 cloves
- napa cabbage 500 ml shredded
- chicken broth950 ml
- light soy sauce1 tbsp
- fish sauce1 tbsp
- ground white pepper1/2 tsp
Optional authentic touch
Pounding garlic, coriander roots, and white pepper into a paste to season the pork meatballs creates a deeper herbal broth aroma.
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