Braised fish is a popular dish in the southern of Vietnam. This meal is very tasty and easy to cook. Specially, it is very suitable to enjoy on cold days which like the raining season in South Vietnam. Due to this reason, it usually appears in Vietnamese family's meal.
First, we must prepare:
- 500 g fish fillets (i used coral trout), cut into 3-4 inch pieces.
- Tamarind (like jam but no absorb with surge): 1 tablespoon.
- Chili, fish sauce, purple onion.
Instruction.
- Cleaning fish- pieces in water added a little salt in 2 times and cleaning again with fresh water. Marinate with 1 teaspoon salt and wait in 30 minutes.
- Put tamarind into small bowl + 2 tablespoons hot water -> mix it well.
- Filter to get the tamarind water. Throw away the seeds.
- Heating the oil (2 – 3 teaspoons) -> fry minced purple onion until it is fragrant.
- Next, adding sliced fish and frying preliminarily.
- Then, putting fish on plate added paper napkin to absorb wasted oil.
- Next, adding fried fish + chili into clay pot. Adding more fish sauce + sugar ->Cooking in large heat about 5 – 7 minutes.
- Then, pouring tamarind water in step 2 into clay pot. Seasoning with 2 tablespoons sugar and cook with small heat, do not cover the pot if you want to create a fantastic food.
- Continue to cook until the sauce of this food is nearly run out. Season again to suit your flavor and turn off the heat.
Yung Nguyen
I see that, vietnam food really like to put fish sauces which china doesn't use it... i will try to make it also ^^
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