Sweet Sour Soup with Fish

Aroma sweet, sour and spicy soup with fish is delicious authentic Khmer food. It easy to make, all you need fish with vegetables.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil | ||
2 cloves of garlic, chopped | ||
1/4 cup of minced lemon grass | ||
6 cups of water | ||
1 whole basa, catfish or any white meat fish approx 900 gram, cleaned and cut chunks, or 1 lb (450 gram) of fish fillet, cut chunks | ||
1/2 Fresh pineapple, diced, or 1 large canned chunk pineapple | ||
1/2 lb (225 gram) of fresh okra or 6 oz (170 gram) of frozen whole okra | ||
1 stalk of celery, chopped | ||
2 stalks of Asian rhubarb (taro stalk), sliced | ||
1 tablespoons of Knorr tamarind powder | ||
3 tablespoons of sugar | ||
2 tablespoons of fish sauce | ||
1/4 teaspoon of salt | ||
2 tomatoes, sliced chunks | ||
4 oz (120 gram) of bean sprouts | ||
1 cup of chopped mix herbs; rice paddy herb, sweet basil and saw leaf herb | ||
1 stalk of green onion, chopped | ||
2 chopped hot chili pepper, or to your taste (option) |
Directions to make Sweet Sour Soup with Fish
- Heat up a large soup pot.
- When soup pot is hot, add oil and saute’ garlic till it brown, removed toasted garlic and set it a side. Add lemon grass, stirs, add water, cook till water bubbling.
- Put fish, pineapple(included pineapple juice if using canned) to boiling water, cook till fish tender.
- Add okra, celery and Asian rhubard, stirs well.
- Seasoning with tamarind powder, sugar, fish sauce, and salt.
- Add tomatoes and bean sprouts, stirs well.
- Top with mix herbs, green onion, hot chili pepper and toasted garlic before serve.
- Serve hot with rice.
- Note: For sourer soup add more tamarind powder, add more sugar for sweeter soup.
Serve with hot rice
Enjoy it
Related Recipe: Sweet Sour Spicy Star Fruit Soup
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 2
Calories Per Serving: 805
% Daily Value
Total Carbohydrate 88g 32%
Cholesterol 77mg 26%
Total Fat 36g 46%
Saturated Fat 8g 40%
Dietary Fiber 13g 46%
Protein 42g 84%
Sodium 2938mg 128%
Sugars 25g 50%
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