Pickled Bamboo and Tamarind Seafood Soup: Canh Hai San Mang Chua

  5.0 – 1 reviews  • Soup
Level: Easy
Total: 55 min
Prep: 30 min
Cook: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients

  1. 3 1/2 tablespoons/50 g tamarind pulp
  2. 6 1/2 cups/1 1/2 litres fish stock
  3. 4 tablespoons fish sauce
  4. 1/2 sweet pineapple, peeled and sliced into bite-size pieces
  5. 3 1/2 ounces/100 g pickled bamboo shoot
  6. 1/3 cup sugar
  7. 7 ounces/200 g baby calamari, cleaned but not skinned
  8. 7 ounces/200 g small tiger prawns, heads and legs trimmed
  9. 1 tomato, cut into wedges
  10. 1 green banana, finely sliced
  11. 5 okra, sliced on a diagonal
  12. 1 elephant ear stem, peeled and sliced
  13. 1 bunch rice paddy herb, roughly sliced* (See Cook’s Note)
  14. 1 bunch saw tooth coriander, roughly sliced*
  15. 1 teaspoon garlic oil
  16. 1/2 tablespoon fried garlic
  17. 2 red chiles, sliced

Instructions

  1. Dissolve the tamarind pulp in 1 cup of hot water. Work the pulp until dissolved and then strain the liquid through a fine sieve, discarding the pulp. Combine the tamarind water, fish stock, fish sauce, pineapple, pickled bamboo shoots, and sugar into a clay pot and bring to the boil. Add the calamari and prawns to the pot. Bring back to boil, discarding any impurities that float to the top. Now add tomatoes, green banana, okra and elephant ear stems. Bring back to the boil, tranfer to serving bowl then add rice paddy herb, coriander, fried garlic, garlic oil, and chile.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 of 4 servings
Calories 386
Total Fat 7 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Carbohydrates 59 g
Dietary Fiber 8 g
Sugar 40 g
Protein 28 g
Cholesterol 182 mg
Sodium 2306 mg

 

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