Chicken soup.

Anytime I asked you what you want me to cook, you would tell me "Chicken soup". I am sure, you drank more chicken soup than any other child on planet earth.
I think it all started with you following me to the Chinese market to buy vege in the morning and when you were about 8 months old you started drinking the plain soup that came with the kon lau mein that I used to eat for breakfast at the market.
From then on, you were hooked to soup. Of all the soups I made for you, this tomyam flavoured soup is your favourite and it is very easy to make.
Ingredients
2 boneless skinless chicken breast cut in to strips
2 stalks of lemon grass
1/2 of an onion
5 kaffir lime leaves
1 red chilli
2 cloves of garlic
2 table spoon almond flakes
3 cups of water
2 table spoon oil
1 tbl spn knorr chicken stock
1 tbl spn lemon juice
garnish
2 packets of glass noodles
2 eggs boiled
one handful of bean sprouts

Masala


what you see in the picture from clock wise direction
1/2 of onion,2 stalks of lemon grass, 5 kaffir lime leaves, 1 inch piece of galangal, 1 fresh red chilli and 2 cloves of garlic


Before you use lemon grass, you need to cut the top off leaving only about 3 inches of the base. Remove the first two layers of the lemon grass. That is already dry and there is no point using it.
Mama do not like to blend lemon grass as I don't like to bite in to it. So use the back of the knife and whack the lemon grass a few times to bruise it, that will help the flavour to come out of it. Keep it aside

Blend all of the other ingredients,(onion, kaffir lime leaves, galangal,chilli and garlic along with 2 table spoon of almond flakes in 1 cup of water.

Heat 2 table spoon of oil in a pan and add the ground mix and the lemon grass. Keep stirring. After about 10 minutes of stirring, you will see the oil floating on top. Now add 2 cups of water and 1 table spoon of knorr chicken stock. When the soup starts to boil, add chicken cut in to slices, a table spoon of lemon juice and salt to taste. Boil for about 20 minutes.

While the soup is boiling, get the accompaniments ready.
1.Boil the eggs. ( add a pinch of salt in the water you are boiling the egg, it prevents the egg white from leaking out!. Mama prefers to boil the eggs for 15 minutes)
2.soak the glass noodles( bean thread noodles) in hot water for 5 minutes and drain
3. Wash the bean sprouts and trim the edges.

To serve

Take the glass noodles in a bowl, pour the hot soup on top, garnish with bean sprouts and slices of boiled egg