How to Cook Delicious Sour Fish Soup with Easy Cooling Effects

How to Prepare Sour Fish Soup with Barramundi

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  Preparation of Ingredients

  The barramundi fish you buy should be rinsed with diluted salt water and then washed again with clean water.

  Then, cut the fish into bite-sized cubes, about the size of a finger joint.

  Effective Ways to Eliminate Fishy Smell

  • Method 1: Use Salt Water or Rice Washing Water

  After cleaning, you can soak the fish in diluted salt water or rice washing water for about 15 minutes, then rinse again with clean water to reduce the fishy smell.

  • Method 2: Use Lemon and Vinegar

  Mix a little vinegar with cold water and wash the cleaned fish in it; the fish will quickly lose its fishy smell.

  • Method 3: White Alcohol

  After cleaning the fish, use diluted white alcohol to marinate the fish for about 2 minutes, then pat dry; this will significantly reduce the fishy smell.

  See details: How to Prepare Fish Without Fishy Smell

  Cherry tomatoes should be washed, drained, and then cut in half. (If using large tomatoes, cut them into wedges!).

  Chili peppers should be washed and finely chopped. Pineapple should be washed and sliced thinly.

  Okra should be washed, with the ends trimmed, and cut into bite-sized pieces about the size of a finger joint.

  Mint leaves should have the outer layer peeled off, be washed, and cut into bite-sized pieces about the size of a finger joint.

  Wash bean sprouts with diluted salt water, then rinse with clean water and let them drain on a basket.

  Shallots and garlic should have their skins removed, be washed, and finely chopped.

  You should pound tamarind with 1 cup of warm water (a rice bowl) to extract the tamarind juice and discard the seeds.

  

  

  

  
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  Sauté tomatoes and fish

  You place a pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil into the pot and heat over medium flame. When the oil is hot, add minced garlic and onion to sauté until fragrant.

  Next, add the prepared cherry tomatoes and pineapple and stir for about 30 seconds. Add chopped chili and sauté for about 2 minutes.

  Then, add the cleaned fish into the pot along with 1 teaspoon of seasoning and sauté until the fish meat firms up, about 3 minutes.

  

  

  

  
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  Cooking sour fish soup

  After the fish has been hunted, add 1 liter of filtered water to the pot and boil on high heat.

  When the water boils, add okra, mint to the pot along with 1 tablespoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and the tamarind juice that was prepared earlier, then stir all the ingredients and spices together.

  Tip: You should add half of the tamarind juice first, and the remaining part can be added when seasoning to easily adjust the sourness.

  When the water boils, skim the foam to keep the water clear and season it to your taste!

  Turn off the heat, add the bean sprouts & herbs into the soup pot.

  Finally, add 1/2 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and stir once more to enhance the flavor and aroma of the soup.

  

  

  

  
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  Final product

  So the delicious sour soup is now complete. Sour fish soup is not fishy at all, but has a captivating taste, with a balanced flavor of sour, spicy, salty, and sweet, and the fish is firm and chewy, making the meal not boring but rather very appetizing.

  This dish is very nutritious and easy to cook, but does not take much time, and surely anyone can make it.