Rice Soup with Whole Fish – Chao Ca


Rating: 3.2 / 5.00 (5 Votes)


Total time: 45 min

Servings: 4.0 (servings)

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Instructions:

Rinse long grain rice, put in a colander and drain.

Make long grain rice with 2 liters of water until the long grain rice swells, turn off temperature.

Rinse fish, clean, dry with paper towels and make 3 incisions on each side. Again, dry thoroughly with kitchen paper and season with salt.

Remove the skin from the onion and cut into fine slices.

Clean ginger root, divide into 4 slices, finely chop 2 of them.

Squeeze lemon.

Heat oil in frying pan, add 3 slices of onion and finely chopped ginger, brown lightly and stir.

Remove onions and ginger and set aside. Heat the remaining oil until it smokes.

Shape fish in the oil and roast for one minute on each side.

Add roasted onion, ginger and fish to rice soup form.

Add 2 tablespoons nuoc mam sauce, 1 pinch of pepper and the juice of one lemon. Let everything boil, reduce the temperature and stew until soft.

In the meantime, rinse, dry and chop the cilantro and basil.

Peel the shallots and cut into fine slices.

For the sauce, chop the remaining slices of ginger very finely and add to the sauce bowl with 3 tablespoons of nuoc mam sauce.

Dressing: Form one egg yolk in each dinner bowl. Place the fish in the large soup bowl, pour the rice soup over it. Sprinkle with coriander, basil, ground pepper as well as shallots and bring to the table. If you like, you can add basil and pepper.

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