Super Hot and Sour Shrimp Soup

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons asian fish sauce (nuoc mam or nam pla)
• 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves fresh chopped
• 3  green onions chopped
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest grated
• 0.3 cup juice of lime fresh
• 1 tablespoon lime zest grated
• 1  chile peppers red seeded chopped
• 6 servings salt and pepper to taste
• 1 pound salad shrimp frozen thawed fully cooked
• 4 cups shrimp stock 
• 15 ounce straw mushrooms whole drained canned

Equipment

• pot

Directions

1. Combine the shrimp stock, lemon zest and lime zest in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for about 5 minutes.
2. Add mushrooms and shrimp and cook until shrimp have heated through, about 5 minutes. Stir in the fish sauce, lime juice, green onion, cilantro and chile pepper. Taste and adjust salt and pepper if needed. Soup should be sour, salty, spicy and hot.