Preparation
10 minutes
Cooking
40 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
If you are looking for a delicious and attractive dish for your family’s weekend meal, then hot pot will definitely be a great choice. Today, TasteVN will share with you how to cook sweet and sour grouper hot pot to refresh the taste for the whole family. Let’s cook right now!
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Grouper Hot Pot For 4 people
Grouper 2 kg (1 fish) Tắc 15 fruits Coconut water 2 liters Chili 4 fruits Lemongrass 3 stalks Shallots 3 bulbs Garlic 4 cloves Ginger 1 piece Kaffir lime leaves 5 leaves Rock sugar 2 tablespoons Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Seasoning powder 2 tablespoons
How to Choose Fresh Grouper
- You should choose to buy grouper (black grouper) for the hot pot, as this type of grouper has thick flesh and won’t fall apart when cooked.
- Fresh grouper usually has a black and white speckled pattern, shiny scales, and clear, slightly bulging eyes.
- Prioritize choosing fish that feel firm to the touch, with intact fins and gills, not slimy or having an unpleasant odor.
- Avoid choosing fish that have dark skin, scratched or torn scales and fins, as well as those that are slimy and have a strong fishy smell.
Required Tools
Hotpot pot or electric hotpot, knife, cutting board, mini gas stove,…
How to make Hotpot with grouper fish and lime
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Prepare the grouper fish
Wash the grouper fish thoroughly with water, scrape off the scales, then cut off the fins, gills, tail, and remove the internal organs from the fish’s belly.
To eliminate the fishy smell, soak it in a saltwater mixture for about 10 minutes and then rinse it thoroughly!
Next, use a knife to fillet the fish, then cut it into bite-sized pieces, sprinkle with a few slices of ginger and chili, and place it in the refrigerator until ready to eat hotpot.
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Prepare other ingredients
Extract the juice from the tắc, discarding the seeds. Wash the chili, remove the stem, and chop finely.
Peel the shallots and garlic, then chop finely. Wash the lemongrass, crush it, and cut it into sections.
Peel the ginger and slice it.
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Cook the hotpot broth
Place a pot on the stove over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, and wait for the oil to heat up. Then add the shallots, garlic, ginger, chopped chili, and lemongrass to sauté until fragrant.
Next, add 2 liters of coconut water and bring to a boil, then season with 2 tablespoons of rock sugar and 2 tablespoons of seasoning.
Once the hotpot broth comes to a boil again, reduce the heat, add the tắc juice, 5 kaffir lime leaves, and adjust the seasoning to taste. That’s the hotpot broth done!
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Final Product
Fish hotpot with pomelo is truly a dish that is both delicious and nutritious that cannot be faulted, right?
With just a few simple steps, you can enjoy each piece of tender, sweet pomelo fish dipped in the sweet and sour, refreshing, incredibly appealing hotpot broth!
Especially, the fish hotpot with pomelo can also be enjoyed with fresh vermicelli, or wrapped with rice paper and fresh vegetables too! It definitely needs to be dipped with a bowl of fermented fish sauce to enhance the flavor of the hotpot!
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