Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower – Eat Best Food in An Giang
Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp (Linh fish) Soup & Sesbania Flower is a rustic dish of the Mekong Delta. Let's go to the kitchen to cook this signature sour soup for the whole family to enjoy. Surely everyone will enjoy this delicious dish and will be very hungry, especially on rainy days. Moreover, this dish is one of the specialties of the land of Chau Doc
Nowadays, there are more and more green and responsible tours which are meaningful and educational as well. This is why Can Tho noodle factory is getting popular for both Vietnamese and foreigners to come and explore the cuisine culture and the typical local life in Can Tho, Mekong Delta.
Facts: It is Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower because the main ingredients are fresh Linh fish and Sesbania flowers
2. Better to Know Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower
Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower – Eat Best Food in An Giang
Linh fish is a type of fish that only appears in the flood season in the Southwest provinces. This fish is rich in protein, lipid, iron, calcium, vitamins A, B1, B2... According to Oriental medicine, this fish has the effect of reducing cough, lowering heat and nourishing blood sugar. Linh fish sour soup cooked with madness treats kidney stones, gallstones and mouth ulcers.
We can see that Sesbania Flower contributed to the creation of this dish. So what is the nutritional value and health benefits of Sesbania seed?
According to Herbalist Dinh Cong Bay, Sesbania seeds have a high protein content (37%). In 100g of dried leaves, there are: 26.30g of protid, 4.2g of lipid, 39.2g of glucid, 14.6g of cellulose.
Health benefits of Sesbania
Herbalist Dinh Cong Bay added that, not only as food, the plant also has many uses in medicine such as:
- The leaves are cooked for drinking water, which can be considered as laxatives, worms shafts. In addition, the leaves also help reduce pain, antibiotic, and anti-inflammatory. Besides, after being washed, crushed with salt, put on the pimples will reduce swelling and help boils heal quickly.
- Creams or ointments made from the leaves are used to treat itching and rashes on the skin.
Nutritional value and health benefits of wild Sesbania
- Seeds are considered as stimulating substances, soothing pain, and astringent. Often used to treat diarrhea, reduce swelling of the spleen, and reduce excessive menstrual flow. Peanuts use 12 - 16g (dry) decoction daily, and can help regulate menstruation.
According to traditional Indian medicine (Ayurveda) recorded, the essential oil has a bactericidal effect and helps lower blood sugar.
- Dandelion root, after being washed, pounded, used to apply on wounds caused by scorpion bites, boils, pustules, abscesses.
The juice of the Sesbania is also used to treat skin rashes and itching.
3. Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower in An Giang
Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower is the convergence of "five folk flavors": the sour taste of tamarind mixed with the broth, the rich sweetness from the fish meat, mixed with a bit of bitterness on the tip of the tongue of the golden sesbania, dotted with fish. Linh fish in the salty taste of raw fish sauce mixed with the spicy taste of chili peppers is not the beauty of the world, what else is there.
The bowl of hot and sour soup is still smoky with the eye-catching yellow color of sesbania flowers, the fragrant round white first fish makes people crave for it just by looking at it.
Picking up a chopstick and putting it in his mouth, the original taste was bitter on the tip of the tongue, but after a while, it left a sweet taste in the throat like the love of a simple local people. Pick up another chopstick and dip it in a cup of raw fish sauce and then put it in your mouth, oh my gosh the first fish in the season is soft and sweet, adding a fatty panther flavor that makes people unable to let go of their chopsticks. Sip a little more broth that is both fragrant and has a characteristic sour taste of tamarind, eat it and want to eat it again.
The dish is not sophisticated, as simple as the character of those peaceful countryside people, the floating season flowers with a few copper fish create a rich flavor that lingers on people's hearts, on rainy days. If it's cold, there's a bowl of hot and sour soup with a hot pot of rice, there's no better taste, just thinking about it, I've liked it.
4. How to Make Sweet & Sour Soup with Siamese Mud Carp Soup & Sesbania Flower
Ingredient
500 grams of fish
200 grams of tamarind
300 grams of Sesbania flower
200 grams of cotton balls
3 tomatoes
3 cloves of garlic
2 chili peppers
A few stalks of cilantro, cinnamon, and cilantro to season the sour soup
Spice
cooking oil, sugar, salt, seasoning, fish sauce
Implementation Steps
Process materials
1. Buy Linh fish and soak it in salt water, then wash it well and put it in a basket to dry.
2. Chopsticks pick up the waterlogged and damaged parts, then wash them and put them in the basket.
3. Wash tomatoes, cut them into finely chopped pieces to add to the hot pot to create a nice taste and color of the water.
4. Peel the garlic, put it in the blender
5. The seasoning vegetables also pick up the bad leaves and then wash them. Cut into small pieces to put in sour soup
6. Tamarind and chili washed
Marinated fish
After draining, marinate with 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons of sugar and seasoning seeds and a few slices of chili to make the fish more fragrant and spicy.
Cook sour soup
Put the pan on, heat the cooking oil, then add the minced garlic and saute until fragrant, then add the minced tomatoes and stir-fry. Turn off the stove to put some into the pot of sour soup.
Pick up the pot of water, put me in. When the water boils, the tamarind is cooked, put it in a bowl of splinter several times to remove all the dead tamarind. Add the sautéed tomatoes, seasoning to taste, including 2 tablespoons of salt, 3/5 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of seasoning. Then, add in the fish. Continued flower crayons and flower balls then chopsticks. Try the pot of soup just eaten off the stove. Add 1 tablespoon fish sauce, seasoning vegetables and chopped chili.
Clean up the food and enjoy
Pour the sourdough fish soup into a bowl and enjoy with steamed rice when hot.
This delicious dish can also be eaten hot pot style. In the process of cooking hot pot, you leave the Linh fish and the sesbania flower outside. Just eat and put fish and vegetables in, it will be more delicious
Note
You should choose small fish that will be more delicious than big fish. Choose fresh fish and when washing, do not rub vigorously, it will destroy the fish intestines, causing a bitter taste. Don't cook fish for too long, it will lose its inherent crispy and delicious taste.
5. Pro tips:
Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.
Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you're eating hot street food, it's always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.
Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.
Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.
If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.
Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.
