Recette de cuisineHomemade recipes · Hainaut
Favorites
Canh chua with sesbania flowers, perch and bean sprouts

Canh chua with sesbania flowers, perch and bean sprouts

Main dishes

A Vietnamese sour soup for two: poached perch in a tamarind broth with tomatoes, sesbania flowers, and soybean sprouts, finished with fried garlic.

Enlarge photo

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

↓ Jump to recipe

This rustic dish, made with ingredients readily available from farms and rice paddies, is easy and inexpensive to prepare: perch, tomatoes, sesbania flowers, and soybean sprouts, simmered in a tamarind broth.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total35 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodsaucepan

Ingredients

2 people
  • $2.78
  • $1.68
  • $0.45
  • $0.64
  • $0.18
  • $0.06
  • $0.39

Directions

  1. Rinse the fish by rubbing them with salt; remove the pistils from the flowers, wash them, and drain them. ≈ 8 min
  2. Mash the tamarind in a small amount of water and collect the juice. ≈ 4 min
  3. Bring the broth to a boil, add the fish, and cook over medium heat; season with tamarind juice, fish sauce, salt, and sugar.
  4. As soon as the fish is cooked, add the tomatoes and the flowers; then, when the mixture returns to a boil, add the soybean sprouts.
  5. Add the herbs and chili pepper, then turn off the heat. ≈ 8 min
  6. Heat the garlic in the oil and pour it over the soup.
  7. Serve with spicy fish sauce, rice, or vermicelli. ≈ 2 min

Equipment

Affiliate links

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 2 large catfish (ca ro, about 600g)
  • 1 cup of broth
  • 100 g of Sesbania flowers
  • 1 tomato, cut into quarters
  • 100 g of soybean sprouts
  • One large ball of tamarind pulp
  • raw shrimp and green onions, chopped
  • 1 finely chopped chili pepper
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon of oil
  • fish sauce, salt, sugar

The screen stays on while cooking mode is open.
🎬 Have a video of this recipe? Suggest a YouTube link

Did you film this recipe, or do you know a video that shows it? Axelle watches it before adding it to the page.

Nothing is published before approval.

✏️ A mistake, an idea for this recipe? Suggest a correction

Reviews (0)

Rate this recipe Be the first to rate it!

Your rating