Aroma sweet, sour and spicy soup with fish is delicious authentic Khmer food. It easy to make, all you need fish with vegetables.
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.
2
servings30
minutes30
minutes805
kcal1
hourIngredients
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup minced lemon grass
6 cups 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 Knorr tamarind powder
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tomatoes, sliced chunks
4 oz (120 gram) of bean sprouts
1 cup 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
- 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.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Serve with hot rice
Nutrition Facts
- Serving Size: 2g
- Calories: 805kcal
- Fat: 36g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Cholesterol: 77mg
- Sodium: 2938mg
- Carbohydrates: 88g
- Fiber: 13g
- Sugar: 25g
- Protein: 42g
