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  • 1. Ingredients for cooking salmon soup
  • 2. How to cook salmon soup
  • 3. Notes when cooking salmon soup

1. Ingredients for cooking salmon soup

3 pieces of salmon
3 branches of taro
3 tomatoes
1 chili
1 bowl of pickled bamboo shoots
2 green onions
1/3 pineapple
1 purple onion
2 cloves garlic
1 small handful of Vietnamese coriander
1 lemon
1 handful of bean sprouts
Seasoning: fish sauce, sugar, seasoning powder, salt
1 little white wine

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Some ingredients for cooking salmon soup. Photo: Dienmayxanh

2. How to cook salmon soup

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Wash the salmon with salt and a little white wine to remove the fishy smell, then rinse with clean water and drain. Next, marinate the salmon with a little salt and fish sauce.

Wash tomatoes, cut in half. Wash green onions, cut into pieces. Peel pineapple, wash, cut into bite-sized pieces. Wash bamboo shoots and drain.

Wash and chop the Vietnamese coriander. Peel the elephant foot yam and cut into diagonal slices about 2 knuckles long.

Peel garlic, wash, and mince. Peel shallot, wash, and thinly slice. Wash bean sprouts, drain. Wash chili, and finely chop.

Step 2: Cook salmon sour soup

Put the pot on the stove and add 1 tablespoon of oil, wait for the oil to heat up, add the shallots and garlic and saute until fragrant.

Next, add pineapple, bamboo shoots, 1/3 of the prepared tomatoes and 1 tablespoon of fish sauce and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes.

Then, add about 3 bowls of boiling water and cook for about 5-7 minutes, then add the salmon and cook for another 4 minutes.

Finally, add the remaining tomatoes, taro stem, and prepared pineapple, and add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, half a teaspoon of salt, bring to a boil, season to taste and turn off the heat.

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Salmon sour soup is nutritious and easy to cook. Photo: VTC News

Step 3: Finish

Add lemon juice, bean sprouts, green onions and prepared chili to the hot pot of salmon soup. Finally, ladle the salmon soup into a bowl, add Vietnamese coriander, sprinkle with pepper and enjoy.

3. Notes when cooking salmon soup

To make delicious and quality salmon soup, choosing fresh ingredients is very important.

With salmon, you can use the fish head, fins, bones or meat. Choose the meat or head of salmon that has a slightly bluish silver color, the fish meat still has its natural pink-orange color, if there are eyes, the eyes are clear and not cloudy.

If you see that the salmon's eyes are cloudy, you should not choose this fish head because it shows that the fish is no longer fresh.

If you use salmon heads to make soup, after washing them, pat them dry and split the fish heads into 4 small pieces, which will make the soup sweeter.

Other ingredients are also selected fresh and clean to ensure food safety.

While cooking salmon soup, pay attention to skimming off the foam so that the sour soup broth has a clear and beautiful color.

Season to taste, avoid using too much salt or sugar.

The finished product is required to have soft, fragrant salmon, not fishy, ​​the meat is not dry or crumbly, has a sour, mild, refreshing taste of pineapple, and the aroma of herbs.

This soup is delicious with rice or noodles. Salmon head sour soup should be served hot, dipped in fish sauce with a little chopped chili. The salty, spicy taste of the fish sauce and chili goes well with the sweetness of the salmon.

Salmon head sour soup should be used within the day to ensure freshness and safety.

Salmon Sour Soup is very easy to cook, right? Wish you success with this delicious and nutritious salmon sour soup!

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