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Rice noodle in fish soup recipe

Ingredients /nutrition

  • 1 1/2 l water
  • 1 kg mackerel or sea bass
  • 2 peeled garlic cloves
  • 6 thinly sliced lemon grass leaves
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 1/2 tbsp fish paste
  • 2 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 250 ml coconut milk
  • 230 g rice vermicelli
  • 35 g bean sprouts
  • 45 g shredded cucumber
  • 45 g shredded green papaya
  • 2 1/2 chopped dill
  • 55 g shredded cabbage

Methods / instructions

  1. Bring water to boil and add in fish.
  2. Bring to boil and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
  3. Remove fish from plan, reserve fish stock and remove all flesh from fish.
  4. Combine fish with garlic, lemon grass and turmeric in a mortar and pound into smooth paste.
  5. Bring reserved fish stock to boil, stir in fish paste, fish sauce, salt and coconut milk.
  6. Bring to boil and stir in pounded fish mixture. Simmer gently for 20 minutes.
  7. In a separate saucepan, boil rice vermicelli in water until cooked and drain.
  8. Divide vermicelli equally in serving bowls, pour in hot soup and top with remaining ingredients.

Servings: 4

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