Thai Spicy Mixed Vegetable Soup with Shrimps

This soup will makes you worm in the cool night. There are many herbs in this menu, sweet basil, pepper corns, chilli, and shallots. Try it when you need to feel better from the cool night!!!

Ingredients
- 300 g shrimps, shelled, and deveined
- 1 cup babycorn, sliced
- 1/2 cup mushroom, cut into well pieces
- 1/2 cup sweet basil leaves
- 3 cups chicken stock

Mixer Ingredients (for blending)
- 12 pepper corns
- 5-7 shallots
- 1 tablespoon shrimp paste
- 1/2 cup dried shrimp
- 2 tablespoon fish sauce

Directions:
1. Grind all spice mixture ingredients in a mortar and pound until mixed thoroughly.
2. Heat chicken stock in a pot, then add spice mixture and keep stirring it.
3. When the soup boils again, add fish sauce. Cook for 1-2 minutes, add prawns, and the other vegetables.
4. When vegetables are cooked thoroughly, taste and add fish sauce as desired.
5. Transfer into bowl for serving, have it with hot steamed jasmine-scented rice... It's really good !!!