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Bottle gourd salad with grilled fish (gỏi bầu cá lóc)

Bottle gourd salad with grilled fish (gỏi bầu cá lóc)

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A Vietnamese salad: blanched squash ribbons, carrots, shallots, and ginger in a vinegar dressing, Vietnamese mint, grilled fish on charcoal, sesame seeds,…

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Recipe from Iosraia, AmieKim, adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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In Vietnam, fish is also often served in a salad: grilled serpent-head fish (cá lóc) is sliced and placed on crispy banana leaves, seasoned with a sweet and sour sauce.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time40 min
  • Cook time20 min
  • Resting15 min
  • Total1 hr 15 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodbarbecue

Ingredients

4 people
  • $0.49
  • $0.32
  • $0.39
  • $0.20
  • $0.37

Sauce

  • $1.18
  • $0.02
  • $2.86
  • $0.09
  • $0.27

Directions

  1. Remove the bones from the fish, season it with salt and pepper, and let it rest for 15 minutes.
  2. Grill it over charcoal, then remove the meat.
  3. Remove the skin from the gourd without peeling it, cut it into strips, blanch it for a few seconds, and then squeeze it dry.
  4. Finely chop the shallots into thin slices and marinate the chopped ginger in the vinegar.
  5. Chop the carrots, cilantro, and chili peppers into strips, and toast the sesame seeds.
  6. Combine all the sauce ingredients. ≈ 4 min
  7. Combine the gourd, shallots, ginger, carrot, and cilantro with the sauce, arrange on a plate, and place the fish on top. ≈ 4 min
  8. Drizzle with a little sauce, sprinkle with sesame seeds, French fried shallots, and chopped chili peppers, and serve with shrimp chips.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 500 g of snakehead fish (or sea bass)
  • 1 kg of gourds (pumpkins)
  • 3 shallots
  • One piece of ginger
  • 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 bunch of leeks
  • 1 hot chili pepper
  • 2 tablespoons of French-style shallots
  • 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds
  • 3 tablespoons of fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 2 green lemons
  • 1 clove of garlic, minced
  • salt, pepper

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