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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Fish Cake Soup For 4 people
Fish cake 300 gr Pineapple 1/2 fruit (pineapple) Tamarind juice 2 tablespoons Water lily 200 gr Lotus stem 2 stalks Culantro a little Vietnamese coriander a little Basil a little Common seasoning a little (sugar/ salt/ monosodium glutamate)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh fish cakes without borax
- To buy quality fish cakes, choose pieces with many small holes on the surface. The fish should look smooth, soft, slightly moist, and the inside should be pearly white.
- Choose pieces of fish cake that smell fresh and have a faint aroma of spices. The fish cake should feel slightly soft but firm, not crumbly.
- You should not buy fish cakes that smell foul or slimy, as those are spoiled. Also, avoid fish cakes that lack small holes on the surface, as those are cakes mixed with impurities.
How to choose fresh and delicious water lily flowers
- To buy delicious water lily flowers, you should choose those that have just been picked, still fresh, with buds that have not fully opened or just starting to bloom.
- Select water lily flowers that are intact, without signs of bruising or being hollowed out by pests.
- Avoid purchasing fully opened water lily flowers or those that are bruised, as they will not taste good when cooked.
How to choose fresh and delicious lotus flowers
- If you want to buy fresh and delicious lotus flowers, you should select those that have just been picked, still fresh.
- Choose lotus flowers that are intact, not bruised, broken, or showing signs of wilting.
How to choose fresh and delicious pineapples
- To choose fresh and delicious pineapples, first, you need to observe the color of the pineapple’s skin. Ripe pineapples will have bright yellow skin from the crown to the end of the fruit, or there may be some areas still slightly green.
- Choose pineapples that are round and plump, as they will have more flesh. The eyes of the pineapple should be large and sparse so that when peeling, the flesh does not get lost too much.
- Pick up the pineapple and smell the crown; ripe pineapples will have a characteristic sweet aroma.
- You should not buy pineapples with many black spots on the skin, as this is a sign that the pineapple has been stored too long, and the taste will not be sweet and delicious anymore.
How to make Sour Fish Cake Soup
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Prepare the ingredients
The fish cake you bought should be washed clean with water, drained, and cut into bite-sized pieces.
Put about 200ml of water into a pot and bring to a boil. When the water is boiling, add the small pieces of fish cake to boil. Boil over high heat for about 5 minutes until the fish cake is cooked, then take it out and let it drain.
The water lily, yellow lotus, coriander, rice paddy herb, and basil should be cleaned, rinsed, and kept separately to drain.
Chop the coriander, rice paddy herb, basil, and 1 chili pepper finely.
Pineapple should be peeled, eyes removed, and cut into thin slices.
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Cooking sour fish soup with fish cake
Add about 500ml of water to the pot, bring to a boil and add the aromatic ingredients, cook on medium heat for 5 minutes until the aroma is cooked, then add the fish cake.
Season the mixture with: 2 tablespoons of tamarind juice, 1.5 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of salt. Then add the lotus flowers and water lily flowers, stir briefly.
Season the spices again to suit your family’s taste and turn off the stove, add the chopped herbs and sliced chili.
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Final product
The sour fish cake soup has an incredibly attractive aroma. The sour soup is light, mildly spicy, and very fragrant, with chewy fish cake, and fresh vegetables served alongside a dish of braised food, you already have a delicious meal ready.
So TasteVN has detailedly guided you on how to cook sour soup with fish cake. Remember to save the recipe to showcase your cooking skills. Wishing you success!
