Sour soup always make the meal more appetizing. Let’s start to cook this delicious sour soup with me!
1. Ingredients:
– Cuttlefish: 500g
– Prawns: 200g
– Dried tamarind: 100g
– Sliced citronella: 1 spoon
– Red pepper powder: 1 teaspoon
– Fish sauce, salt, scallion, garlic, pepper, sugar, glutamate, spearmint
2. Instructions:
To clean the cuttlefish, drain, cut light cross on the surface of the cuttlefish then cut into rectangular pieces of bout 3x5cm. Season with 1 spoon of fish sauce + a dash of salt.
To clean the prawns, remove the head + covers as well as the black thread on their backs, soak with salted water then rinse again. Drain.
To soak the tamarind in hot water, to stir thoroughly to remove the pulp of tamarind, take out the seed.
To chop the citronella, garlic and scallion.
To clean spearmint, cut into small pieces.
To heat the pot, pour 3 spoons of oil in. When the oil is heated, add citronella in to fry until fragrant, add again chopped garlic + scallion. Then pour the shrimp in to fry, add in a dash of red pepper powder, mix to make it colors. Pour in a bowl of water. When it boils, season with fish sauce, sugar, and glutamate, wait for the water boils again then add tamarind juice. Let it boils again, taste the soup to your taste, finally, pour the cuttlefish in. Remove the pot.
The soup after cooked had the sour taste of tamarind, piquancy of red pepper and sweetness of cuttlefish.
To draw the soup to be bowl, sprinkle chopped spearmint and a dash of pepper on. Serve with rice or vermicelli.
Hope you enjoy!
