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Hot & sour fish recipe

Ingredients /nutrition

  • 650 ml oil for deep frying
  • 4 catfish
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 4 shallots
  • 2 cm pc dried shrimp paste
  • 2 cm piece ginger
  • 9 dried chilies
  • 2 stalks bruised lemon grass
  • 18 g polygonum leaves
  • 3 dried assam slices
  • 600 ml water
  • sugar and salt to taste

Methods / instructions

  1. Heat oil in a heavy frying pan and deep dry catfish until 3/4 cooked. Drain on kitchen paper towel and set aside.
  2. Leave about 2 tbsp of oil in pan and saute garlic cloves, shallots, dried shrimp paste, ginger, chilies, lemon grass, polygonum leaves and assam slices until fragrant.
  3. Return catfish in pan and pour in water.
  4. Cook for 3 minutes and season well with sugar and salt.
  5. Serve hot with steamed fragrant rice.

Servings: 4

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