"SWEET AND SOUR FISH SOUP"

Do you like soups, especially fish soup! Today, I will show you how to make one kind of Chinese soup which is tasted a little bit of sweet and a little bit of sour. It is also very famous in Vietnam. People like to eat it with rice and fish sauce. Sometime, they make it as a hot pot.

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons tamarind paster or 3 tablespoons lime juice

7 cups water or 7 cups fish stock

2 tablespoons palm sugar or 2 tablespoons white sugar

2 large tomatoes, skinned and sliced

1 thick celery rib, chopped

1 tablespoon fish sauce

10 ounces cod or 10 ounces white fish fillets, cut into bite size pieces

3 ounces bean sprouts

1 teaspoon finely chopped red chile

 mint or sweet basil or fresh coriander leaves.

Directions:

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

   
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