How to cook sour snakehead fish soup at home simply

1. Ingredients for cooking sour snakehead fish soup

Snakehead fish: 500g
Pineapple: 1/4 fruit
Tomatoes: 2
Okra: 50g
Taro stem (mint): 50g
Tamarind: 20g
Bean sprouts: 50g
Coriander: 1 branch
Coriander: 1 branch
Fish sauce: 1 tablespoon
Common spices (sugar, salt, seasoning powder, pepper): a little

sour fish soup 8.jpg — Some main ingredients of snakehead fish sour soup. Photo: dienmayxanh

2. How to cook sour snakehead fish soup

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Scale the snakehead fish, gut it and remove the internal organs. Then, rub salt all over the fish, rinse it twice with clean water and use a knife to cut it into bite-sized pieces about 1.5 finger-lengths long.

Next, put the cut fish in a large bowl, add 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, half a tablespoon of seasoning powder and half a tablespoon of pepper and mix well until the spices dissolve. Marinate for about 15-20 minutes for the fish to absorb the spices.

Peel the pineapple and cut into bite-sized pieces. Wash the tomatoes and cut into small wedges. Wash the bean sprouts and drain. Wash the coriander and Vietnamese coriander and chop them finely.

Wash okra, remove top and cut diagonally. Peel off outer layer of elephant foot yam and cut diagonally like okra.

Step 2 : Cook sour snakehead fish soup

Put tamarind and 1 tablespoon of warm water about 60 degrees Celsius in a small bowl and use a spoon to mash the tamarind until the flesh is soft.

Then, boil 1 liter of water until the water boils, then add the mashed tamarind, mix well and cook until the water boils.

When the tamarind juice boils, add the snakehead fish and cook for about 10 minutes, then use a spoon to remove the foam and add the tomatoes, pineapple, okra, bean sprouts and prepared elephant ear.

Stir all ingredients well and add 1 tablespoon sugar to the pot. Bring to a boil, season to taste and turn off the heat.

Step 3 : Finish

Scoop the sour snakehead fish soup into a bowl, sprinkle some Vietnamese coriander and cilantro on top and it's done.

The finished sour snakehead fish soup will have an attractive aroma. When eating, you will feel the sour taste of tamarind and tomato mixed with the sweetness of snakehead fish meat, the light sour taste of pineapple.

Snakehead fish sour soup eaten with white rice or fresh noodles dipped in salty fish sauce will be great.

sour fish soup 6.jpg — Sour snakehead fish soup is a rustic, easy-to-eat dish. Photo: pasgo

3. Notes when cooking sour snakehead fish soup

To cook delicious sour snakehead fish soup, you need to choose the right ingredients.

Delicious snakehead fish are usually of moderate size, not too big or too small. The fish body is elongated, not too round, feels firm to the touch, not mushy.

You should choose to buy live snakehead fish of the Vietnamese snakehead fish breed to make the dish more delicious and flavorful when cooked.

With pineapple, you should choose fruits with eye-catching yellow color, sometimes mixed with green because these are ripe and delicious fruits that have reached a certain sweetness.

Do not buy pineapples that are unevenly ripe. If the pineapple is mostly green, it means it is not fully ripe, while if the pineapple is yellow but mixed with dark brown, it has been overripe and is about to rot.

Good tomatoes will have a bright red skin, even color, no scratches and a mild natural aroma. You should not buy tomatoes with small, even spots, when you cut the tomato in half, the seeds inside are green, the flesh is light pink. Because these tomatoes are not naturally ripened but forced to ripen.

To make the broth clear and beautiful, while cooking the fish, you should skim off excess foam floating on the surface of the water.

Depending on the taste and characteristics of each region, some places fry the fish first, while others drop it directly into boiling water to keep the original sweetness.

The recipe for sour snakehead fish soup in the Northern style is similar to the recipe for sour snakehead fish soup in the Southern style. However, if you want to make sour snakehead fish soup in the Northern style, you need to replace the tamarind with 5 star fruit to create a sour taste for the dish.

The standard sour snakehead fish soup has a clear broth, the fish is kept intact, naturally soft and sweet, the sour taste from pineapple, tamarind, a little spicy from chili, and the crunchiness from ripe vegetables and fruits. This dish stimulates the taste buds and helps to improve appetite.

The above article has suggested a way to cook delicious, authentic, and simple sour snakehead fish soup. Hopefully this will be a useful “secret” to make family meals more interesting!

Good luck!

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