Water spinach soup is a popular rustic dish in Vietnamese family meals. Today, TasteVN will share with you 2 ways to cook this delicious and refreshing soup with a very simple recipe for water spinach soup cooked with dried shrimp. Let’s get cooking right away!
1. Water Spinach Soup with Shrimp
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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Water Spinach Soup with Shrimp Serves 2
Water spinach 1 bunch (about 300g) Fresh shrimp 200 g Shallots 2 bulbs (minced) Fermented shrimp paste 1 teaspoon Chili powder 1/2 teaspoon Cooking oil 1 tablespoon Fish sauce 1 teaspoon Salt/ seasoning powder a little
How to Choose Fresh and Delicious Shrimp
- Choose shrimp with a hard and transparent shell, allowing you to see the shrimp meat inside; these are the good shrimp.
- Fresh shrimp will have their tails tightly closed; conversely, if the shrimp are dead or have been sitting for too long, their tails tend to spread out.
- Do not buy shrimp that feel soft and mushy to the touch, and where parts like legs and antennae easily detach; these shrimp are dead and not fresh.
How to make Sweet Potato Leaf Soup with Shrimp
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Prepare the ingredients
With 1 bunch of sweet potato leaves (about 300g), you take the stems and leaves, discard the thick middle stem, peel off the fibrous layer, then you can leave them whole or cut them into pieces about the length of your pinky finger as you prefer.
Next, for 200g of shrimp, peel the shells, remove the black vein, then marinate with 1 spoon of fish sauce, 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 1 minced shallot, then mix well and let the shrimp absorb the spices for 10 minutes.
Simple and quick way to devein shrimp
- Method 1: After peeling off the shell, use a small knife to make a straight cut from head to tail along the back, then use your hand to pull out the shrimp vein.
- Method 2: Hold the shrimp body with one hand and the head with the other hand, then carefully separate the head from the body, the shrimp vein attached to the head will come out with it.
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Cook the soup
When the shrimp has turned a beautiful color, add 2.5 liters of cold water and bring to a boil.
Dissolve 1 teaspoon of shrimp paste in a bowl with 2 teaspoons of clean water, then use a strainer to filter out the residue. Once the water is boiling, pour all the shrimp paste water into the pot.
Next, add 1 teaspoon of salt and the water spinach, cooking on high heat for about 2 minutes until the vegetables are cooked. Then taste and adjust the seasoning before turning off the heat.
Tip:
- Besides a pan, you can also use a pot to cook the soup as you like.
- To make the soup sweet and flavorful without needing sugar or MSG, you should add shrimp paste to the soup!
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Finished product
A bowl of water spinach soup with shrimp is simple, hot, and extremely easy to eat in the hot weather. The broth is fragrant and sweet, the water spinach is cooked just enough to be tender but still crisp, combined with the fresh, sweet shrimp, making it very appealing.
2. Water Spinach Soup with Dried Shrimp (Recipe shared by a user)
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Water Spinach Soup with Dried Shrimp (Recipe shared by a user) Serves 2
Dried shrimp 200 gr Water spinach 1 bunch Garlic 1 bulb Fish sauce 1 teaspoon Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Salt/MSG a little
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How to Make Water Spinach Soup with Dried Shrimp (Recipe shared by a user)
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Prepare the Ingredients
For water spinach, remove the old stems, keeping the leaves and young stems, then wash them clean, cutting long stems into bite-sized pieces.
Rinse the dried shrimp, soak them in hot water to quickly expand. Soak for about 30 minutes, then take the shrimp out and rinse with clean water.
After peeling the garlic, crush it and chop it finely.
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Cooking Soup
First, you place the pot on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and minced garlic, and sauté until fragrant.
When the garlic is fragrant, you add the prepared shrimp and stir-fry with 1 teaspoon of salt.
After the shrimp has shrunk, you add 1 bowl of filtered water to the pot and continue cooking over high heat until the water boils again, then drop in the water spinach and stir well.
Finally, you season the soup with 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt, then cook until the vegetables are tender. Before turning off the stove, you can adjust the seasoning to your taste.
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Finished Product
Bowl of water spinach soup with dried shrimp is incredibly simple, hot, and very easy to eat in the hot weather.
The broth is fragrant and sweet, the water spinach is cooked just right, tender yet still crunchy, combined with the soft dried shrimp, making it very appealing.
How to choose fresh and delicious sweet potato leaves (rau lang)
- You should choose fresh and tender bundles of sweet potato leaves, with green leaves but not too dark, as those are usually older leaves that will not be soft and sweet when eaten.
- Select bundles of sweet potato leaves that have firm, crunchy stems; you can break off a small piece with your hands to test; this indicates good quality sweet potato leaves.
- Do not buy bundles of sweet potato leaves with shriveled stems; if they feel soft to the touch, they are wilting and no longer fresh and sweet.
Above are 2 delicious and refreshing recipes for water spinach soup with shrimp with detailed instructions from TasteVN. What are you waiting for? Get into the kitchen and make it right away!
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