You can make many delicious dishes with red tilapia such as braising, frying, cooking hot pot, … and cooking soup is also very appealing. Let’s go to the kitchen with TasteVN to make a super simple and delicious red tilapia soup!
1. Red tilapia soup
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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Red Tilapia Soup Serves 3 people
Red tilapia 1 fish Tomatoes 2 pieces Water celery 100 gr (small celery) Green onions 3 stalks Lemon 1 fruit Minced shallots/ garlic 1 tablespoon Fish sauce 1 teaspoon Cooking oil 1 tablespoon Salt/ sugar a little
How to choose fresh and delicious water celery
- Good water celery will have a thick stem, and the stalks in the bunch are evenly round.
- Choose water celery with bright green leaves with a white tint, and the stems and leaves are still tender.
- Avoid choosing stalks with dark leaves and many roots as these are usually old and fibrous.
How to make Sour Pinkish Fish Soup
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the tomatoes and cut them into wedges. Cut off the roots of the celery and green onions, remove any wilted leaves, wash them clean, and then cut them into pieces.
Clean the pinkish fish by removing the gills and intestines, scraping off the scales, and rinsing with water. Next, use salt and lemon to rub the fish all over, including inside the belly, and rinse again under running water to clean. Cut the fish in half and let it drain.
How to clean pinkish fish to be fresh and odor-free- Method 1: After cleaning the fish, soak it in diluted salt water or rice washing water for about 15 minutes, then rinse with clean water to help eliminate the fishy smell. Alternatively, you can rub coarse salt over the fish and then rinse to keep it clean and reduce the fishy odor.
- Method 2: Use lemon juice or vinegar to rub evenly over the fish for a few minutes and then rinse to help reduce the fishy smell.
- Method 3: Dilute a little white wine and crushed ginger, soak the fish in this mixture for about 10 minutes and then rinse clean.
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Sauté the tomatoes
Place a pot on the stove, turn the heat to medium, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, heat it up, then add chopped shallots and garlic to sauté until fragrant. Next, add the tomatoes and stir-fry until they are slightly soft. Sautéing the tomatoes first will help the soup have a beautiful color.
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Cook the soup
Next, add 500ml of filtered water to the pot, bring it to a boil, then season with 1.5 teaspoons of salt, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, stirring to dissolve the seasonings.
At this point, add the red tilapia, lower the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes until the fish is cooked, then taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking, add the celery, mix well, and boil for another 3 minutes, finally add chopped green onions, stir well, and turn off the stove.
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Final product
The red tilapia is sweet, firm, and fragrant, the soup has a clear and rich sweet taste, the celery is crunchy and sweet without being tough, this red tilapia soup is very suitable as a main dish for family meals.
When eating, dip the fish in chili fish sauce to enhance the flavor.
2. Red tilapia soup (recipe shared by a user)
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Red Snapper Soup (recipe shared by a user) For 3 people
Red snapper 1 fish Tomato 2 pieces Onion 2 bulbs Pineapple 1/4 piece Spring onion A little Red onion 1 bulb Chili 1 piece Cooking oil A little Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Black pepper 1 teaspoon Seasoning powder 1 teaspoon Salt A little
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to choose sweet and delicious pineapple
- Sweet, delicious, and meaty pineapples will have a dark yellow skin, short and round body.
- Additionally, you should choose pineapples with large eyes, as these are usually ripe and naturally matured, not artificially ripened.
- Avoid selecting long-bodied pineapples with green skin as they are often not ripe and will taste sour. Moreover, pineapples with dark spots or bruises should also be avoided as they are usually spoiled or have been stored too long.
How to choose fresh and delicious onions
- You should choose onions that are round and uniform in shape, with thin, bright skin.
- Fresh, delicious onions will feel dry and firm when held.
- Avoid selecting onions that are sprouting, have uneven colors, or feel soft to the touch.
How to make sweet and sour red tilapia soup (recipe shared by a user)
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Prepare the ingredients
When buying red tilapia, you can ask the seller to clean the fish for you. After bringing it home, you just need to rub the fish with a little salt, then rinse it with clean water and cut it into bite-sized pieces, and let it drain.
How to prepare red tilapia without a fishy smell
- Method 1: One of the most common methods is to soak the fish in a diluted salt water solution to help eliminate the fishy smell. After washing the fish clean, soak it in water, add 2 tablespoons of salt, and let it soak for 15 minutes, then rinse again with clean water.
- Method 2: Soak the cleaned fish in water mixed with lemon or vinegar for about 5 – 10 minutes, then take it out and rinse it clean again. This method not only helps reduce the fishy smell but also removes the slime present in slippery fish.
- Method 3: After cleaning and rinsing the fish, simply marinate it with a little white wine for about 2 minutes to ensure that the final dish will not have any fishy smell.
See details: Effective methods to eliminate fishy smell
Pineapple should be washed clean, remove the skin, and then cut into bite-sized pieces. Tomatoes should be washed clean, remove the stem, and then cut into wedges. Onions should have their skins removed, washed clean, and then sliced thinly into rounds or cut into wedges as desired.
For 1 bulb of shallot, remove the outer skin and wash it clean, then let it drain. Put it in a mortar and pound it together with 1 teaspoon of pepper and 1 chili pepper with the stem removed.
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Stir-fry the ingredients
Prepare a pot for cooking soup on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, and when the oil is hot, add the minced shallots, pepper, and chili to sauté until fragrant over medium heat. Then add the prepared red tilapia and flip both sides for about 30 seconds until the fish meat is firm.
Next, add the diced tomatoes and pineapple and stir for about 30 seconds until the tomatoes and pineapple are slightly soft.
Note: During the stir-frying process, be gentle when turning the fish to avoid breaking it.
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Cook the soup
Add about 700ml of water to the pot, when the soup water boils, add the sliced onion, and season with 1 tablespoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder. Gently stir to dissolve the seasonings.
Cook the soup for about 10 minutes until the fish is cooked, then add 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, at this time you can also adjust the seasoning to your family’s taste.
Finally, add the chopped green onions and turn off the heat to complete the sour red tilapia soup.
Tip: When the soup starts to boil, you should regularly skim off the foam, this will help make the soup clearer and more refined.
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Finished Product
The sour pink fish soup has an appealing appearance with the yellow of pineapple, the red of tomatoes, the white of onions, and the green of scallions.
When served in a bowl for tasting, you will immediately smell the fresh and light flavor of the soup. The fish has no fishy taste, with white, firm, and sweet flesh. The broth is light and sweet from the onions and slightly sour from the pineapple and tomatoes.
This dish, although cooked very quickly and simply, is quite addictive with rice!
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to Choose Fresh Pink Fish
- The best pink fish to buy are those that are still alive, swimming vigorously, with a bright pink diamond shape, and shiny scales. When holding the fish, it should feel thick, indicating it has a lot of meat. Choose fish larger than 1kg as they will have fewer bones and be firmer.
- If you can’t buy live fish, choose those with clear eyes, red gills, a bright color, and when pressed, the flesh should feel firm and elastic. The fish should be dry, without any sliminess.
How to choose fresh, delicious tomatoes
- Good tomatoes have a bright red color, shiny, plump, with tiny specks visible on the skin; when cut in half, if the seeds turn yellow, the tomato is ripe and delicious.
- In addition, if the tomato still has the stem firmly attached, it is fresh and recently picked. Smelling the tomato will give off the characteristic aroma of vine-ripened tomatoes.
- Do not buy tomatoes that are still green; unripe tomatoes contain toxins that are not good for the body. Additionally, if you squeeze the tomato and it feels soft and mushy, or if the skin is scratched or has bee sting marks, do not buy it.
Above, TasteVN guides you on how to make sour soup with red tilapia that is incredibly simple yet deliciously appealing for the family. Wishing you success!
