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
2
servings30
minutes30
minutes805
kcal1
hourAroma 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 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
Recipe 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
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