Kang Leang Noppa Kao

(Hot soup with shrimp and vegetables)

Ingredients

150 gram fresh shrimp, shelled off, and devein
2 ½ cup water
Vegetables such as pumpkin, baby corn, long bean, sweet basil, mushroom coccinia grandis and young gourd,
Cut into bite pieces

Hot paste ingredients

1 ½ teaspoon peppercorn
2 tablespoon shallot, cut into pieces
2 teaspoon shrimp paste
2 tablespoon minced dried shrimp

Method

1. In the mortar or blender, blend well all the hot paste ingredients, set aside.
2. In the pot, pour water and hot paste, bring to boil, and stir sometime.
3. Wait till boilling, add to cook hard vagetables before, such as pumpkin, baby corn, long bean and young gourd, when hard vegetables are soften, season with salt, add shrimp and sweet basil, serve hot.