
Soups
Gaeng tao (pork and bean soup)
A thick, comforting soup of beans, pork and garlic, lightly flavoured with fish sauce. It is eaten hot with sticky rice during the cooler days.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Spices & seasoning
Optional extras
On the side
Nutrition facts
383 kcal per serving
- Protein
- 31.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 33.5 g
- of which sugars
- 4.7 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- of which saturated fat
- 3.2 g
- Fiber
- 12.3 g
Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.
Instructions
- Soak the dried beans the night before, then rinse them and boil for 30 minutes in simmering water if you are using dried beans.
- Cut the pork into cubes and brown them in hot oil with the sliced onion for 5 minutes.
- Crush the garlic and add it to the meat with the chopped tomatoes, then cook for 2 minutes.
- Pour in the stock, add the drained beans and simmer covered for 35 minutes until the meat is tender.
- Season with fish sauce, salt and pepper, then mash a few beans to lightly thicken the soup.
- Sprinkle with chopped coriander and serve very hot.
Variations and tips
Vegetarian version. Replace the pork with shiitake mushrooms and the stock with vegetable stock.
More ideas
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Original Ecomely recipe.

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