Saffron with Steamed Fish – Ca Kho Nghe


Rating: 2.75 / 5.00 (4 Votes)


Total time: 45 min

Servings: 4.0 (servings)

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Instructions:

Rinse, scale and clean fish. Remove the innards. Leave the fish whole or cut into thick slices of about 3 cm, dry with kitchen paper, rub with fruit vinegar and season with salt.

For the marinade, peel the onion and chop it very finely.

Finely crush half of the garlic cloves and together with saffron and the nuoc mam sauce pure over the fish form, infuse 2 hours.

Heat oil in a pan, brown a few slices of onion in it, pour the water, let it boil and form over the fish. Bring everything to a boil and simmer for 2 hours with the lid on.

Only 5 minutes before serving, add some of the basil leaves that have been washed, dabbed dry and finely chopped.

For the sauce: remove the peel from the ginger root, cut into very thin slices, crush the remaining garlic, add pepper and chopped peppers, together with the diluted nuoc mam sauce form in the sauce bowl.

Serving: In the center of a large plate place the sauce bowl, on one side place the fish with the pan contents, on the other side place the remaining basil.

Eating: Using chopsticks, take pieces of fish from the large serving plate and dip them into the sauce bowl. Serve with cooked long grain rice

Drinks: Herbal tea

Tips: When preparing the fish, it is recommended to clean it with kitchen paper dipped in vinegar and salt. At the same time bl

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