Best Sweet And Sour Christmas Fish Soup Recipes

VIETNAMESE SWEET & SOUR SOUP (CANH CHUA)

Steps:

• Add pork to a large soup pot. Cover with water until it just covers the pork. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Take out the pork and then throw away the water. This process cleans the pork. Rinse the pot and add the pork back. Cover the pork with fresh water until it just covers the meat. Bring to a boil.
• Add the onion and simmer for 1.5 hours. Make sure to check every 30 minutes for impurities. Scoop away any you see.
• While the soup is simmering, combine 1 cup of water and tamarind in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and let it simmer until the tamarind dissolves.You can help speed up the process by using the back of a spoon to crush the tamarind. Pour the tamarind through a fine mesh sieve into a small bowl. Set aside.
• After simmering the soup for 1.5 hours, add the pineapple and ginger to the soup. Simmer for another 20 minutes.
• Put the catfish in and simmer for another 10 minutes until it is cooked through.
• Lastly, add the vegetables and tamarind from step 3. Bring the soup to a boil and serve with a side of white rice. Make sure to taste the soup for seasoning and add more salt if it tastes bland.

SWEET-AND-SOUR THAI FISH SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot of salted, boiling water, cook rice until tender. Drain, set aside, and keep warm.
• In a food processor or blender, combine shallots, garlic, chopped cilantro, ginger, tamarind paste, anchovy, and brown sugar and puree until smooth.
• In a soup pot, combine puree, cayenne, fish sauce, and clam juice and bring to a boil. Add fish and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add rice and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove soup from the heat and stir in lettuce, radishes, and snow peas. Ladle soup into bowls and serve sprinkled with scallions, cilantro leaves, and cucumber.

SWEET AND SOUR FISH

Steps:

• Stir the fish sauce, sugar, and lime juice together, set aside. In another bowl, mix the ginger, lemongrass, and scallion whites, together set aside.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil to the skillet and season the fish with pepper. Stir-fry half of the lemongrass mixture and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Lay 2 of the fish fillets, rounded side or skin side down and cook until browned and a spatula can easily be slipped under the fish, about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. Flip the fish; add half the fish sauce mixture and half of the scallion greens. Cook the fish, swirling the pan, to coat the fish as the liquid thickens into a syrupy sauce, about 2 minutes.
• Transfer fish to a platter and repeat with remaining ingredients. Wipe or wash out skillet before starting the second batch. Scatter the tomatoes and basil or cilantro over the fish and serve.

SWEET AND SOUR FISH

Steps:

• Cut halibut into bite-size pieces. Place in a mixing bowl and combine with soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of flour. Let stand for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, heat oil in deep-fryer or heavy saucepan to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Deep fry halibut pieces until golden brown. Drain on paper towels; set aside.
• For the Sauce, saute green pepper, onion and pineapple in a medium skillet for 1 minute. Stir in reserved pineapple juice, sugar, ketchup, water, remaining 2 teaspoons of flour, sesame oil, and salt to taste. Cook until thickened, stirring occasionally.
• Serve, by dipping fried halibut pieces into sauce, or pour the sauce over the fish.

SWEET AND SOUR FISH

Steps:

• Put the fish in a bowl. Sprinkle over the five-spice powder and soy sauce, then toss gently.
• Cover and leave to marinate for about 30 minutes.
• Dip the fish in the egg, then in the cornflour, shaking off any excess.
• Half-fill a wok with oil and heat to 190oc. Deep fry the fish in batches for about 2 minutes until golden.
• Drain and keep warm. Carefully pour off all the oil from the wok and wipe clean.
• To make the sauce, blend together in a bowl the cornflour, water, pineapple juice, rice vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, ketchup and rice wine or sherry. Miz well then set aside.
• Heat the wok until hot. Add 2 teaspoons of the oil and swirl it around. Add the garlic and ginger and stir-fry for a few seconds. Add the spring onions and green capsicum and stir-fry over a medium heat for 2 minutes. Add pineapple.
• Pour in the sauce and cook, stirring until thickened. Stir in the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and add seasoning to taste.
• Pour the sauce over the fish and serve at once.

CANH CHUA CA (SWEET AND SOUR FISH SOUP)

Steps:

• Steep tamarind paste in cold water from allowance and strain into pot.
• Or if using lime juice, add it to the water or fish stock.
• Combine liquid, sugar, tomatoes, celery and fish sauce, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add fish, bean sprouts and chilies and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Serve in individual soup bowls and garnish with plenty of mint, sweet basil or coriander, or all three.
• Serve with a side dip of Vietnamese Fish Sauce (nuoc cham).