Coconut Lime Soup with Scallops

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When the temperatures soar and you want to minimize your time in the kitchen, this soup comes to the rescue. It contains the hot-sweet-salty-sour flavors that are essential to Southeast Asian cuisines: coconut milk provides sweetness, fish sauce adds saltiness, red pepper flakes give it some heat, while lime juice and lemongrass are tart accents. Typically, chicken would be added to this soup, but I use scallops instead.
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