Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Fish ball soup



My hubby is a fan for soup, I felt I have to find a recipe to make a simple non instant soup :)
Finally after browsing, I gather some recipes and tried to combine it but mostly comes from here, here's what came up..

Ingredients :
For the soup :
- 1300 cc water
- 100 gr ikan teri asin or salted bilis
- 3 red dates
- 1 cube ( 1,5 cm x 1,5 cm) of rock sugar 

- 10-12 Fresh fish ball (not the frozen ones)
- add fishcakes, crab claw or others to your taste
- 1-2 handsfull Moyashi sprout
- 4 large Shiitake mushroom, divided in 4
- 4-8 baby Cai Sim (chinese cabbage)
- Bihun / rice vermicelli 

For the condiments :
- 1,5 Tbsp Tong Cai, wash with drinking water 2-3 times to rinse off the saltiness

- 6-8 large cloves, crushed using garlic press
- olive oil / cooking oil
Heat oil in a pan, add garlic until it starts to change color, make sure not to overdone it, since it will continue cooking even after we turn off the stove.

- 1-2 chili padies, slice thinly
- Soy sauce (I used the less salt ones)
Mix them well

How to make :
1. For the soup base:
- Boil : water, ikan teri asin or salted bilis, red dates and rock sugar until the soup would be around 1000cc
- I usually throw the bubbles that appear on top
- Take out ikan teri asin or salted bilis, red dates from the soup

2. Boil in another pot one at a time :
- Moyashi sprout
- Shiitake mushroom
- baby Cai Sim (chinese cabbage)
- Bihun / rice vermicelli
- Arrange all this in a personal bowl, with Bihun / rice vermicelli  on the bottom, and the others on top of it

3. Fishball soup :
- Reheat the soup base
- Insert the fishball, fishcakes, etc until cooked (the fishball, fishcakes, etc will float once it is done)
- Pour the fishball soup on top of the vermicelli bowl, sprinkle the rinsed Tong Cai on top of it
- Enjoy the fishball soup and add the condiments to your liking :)

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