Week 50 Challenge - Tomatoes and Lemongrass

I have completed another challenge, and this time I have (unintentionally) used both ingredients!

I decided to have a look for a Thai style soup that used lemongrass, as that is something I have never tried to make before. I found a recipe for

Thai Chicken Soup with Coconut Cream and Lemongrass on the Tegel website that looked like a good one. As it happened, the soup used both Lemongrass and Tomatoes, and even though I made it with both ingredients, it wasn't until I posted about it on the Foodlover's forum that I remembered that Tomato was the other ingredient for this week!

I couldn't find fresh Kaffir Lime leaves, but

did manage to find some dried ones, and as they are removed from the soup before you eat, I figured they would work just as well.

We had the soup poured over some rice stick noodles, to try and fill the kids up.

It was a good, quick meal to make and tasty to eat, but I thought the lime was a bit overpowering, and the subtlety of the Lemongrass was a bit lost. The flavour of the ginger did not come through either. Apart from that, it was good, and I would give it a 3.5/5. I will try this again, and play around with the balance of flavours to see if I can get it so that all the different flavours are there.