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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Celery is a common vegetable in the daily meals of many families. In particular, celery contains very few calories. Today, let’s get cooking to make this refreshing and delicious soup with celery and fish balls.
Ingredients for Celery Fish Ball Soup Serves 2
Fish paste 100 gr Celery 200 gr Carrot 100 gr Garlic 2 cloves (chopped) Ginger 1 piece (small) Salt A little Pepper A little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh celery
- You should choose celery with bright green leaves, tender and white stalks.
- Celery should have thick stalks and leaves, round and even stalks, and the bunch should have few roots.
- Avoid buying bunches of celery that are bruised or rotten.
How to choose fresh and delicious fish cake
You can buy live snakehead fish home to clean and scrape the meat, or buy pre-scraped ones as mentioned in the article.
- For fresh snakehead fish: You should choose fish with clear eyes, shiny scales, firm and thick body for easier scraping of the meat.
- For pre-scraped snakehead fish: choose the part with bright, pink or light pink flesh, without discoloration or greenish tint, and no strange fishy smell.
- If you buy pre-packaged fish meat, make sure to check the expiration date.
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How to prepare Celery Fish Ball Soup
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Marinate the fish cake
Mix 100g of fish cake with 2 minced garlic cloves, a little salt, and a little pepper, use a spoon to knead the fish cake into a sticky, pliable mass. Roll the fish cake into small balls and let it sit for 10 minutes to absorb the seasoning.
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the celery stalks, peel them lightly, and cut them into pieces about 1/2 finger thick.
Peel the carrot, then carve flowers and cut into pieces about 1/2 finger thick or you can cut them into small bite-sized pieces.
Peel the ginger, wash it clean, and slice it.
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Cooking the Soup
Place a pot on the stove, add about 2 cups of clean water and cook over medium heat. When the water boils, add the ginger and fish balls.
Once the water has boiled again, add the carrots and cook for about 3 – 5 minutes, then add the celery and season with salt to taste.
Cook for another 5 – 7 minutes until the carrots and celery are soft, then turn off the heat and sprinkle with a little pepper.
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Final Product
The celery fish ball soup is now complete. This is a refreshing and quite novel soup. If you want to diversify your family’s menu, give this soup a try. Surely your family will enjoy this soup.
Tips for successfully making celery soup with fish balls
- Besides snakehead fish paste, you can also use other types of fish paste to cook this soup.
- You should marinate the fish paste beforehand to let the fish absorb the seasoning. After the water boils, add the fish balls for a sweet soup.
- Add the carrot to the soup first because carrots take longer to cook than celery.
With just a few simple methods, you can easily have a celery soup with fish balls that always keeps your family meals interesting. Wishing you success in making this dish.
*Refer to images and recipes from Simply Healthy Food.
