If you have the opportunity to visit the coastal countryside of Tra Vinh province, you will enjoy many rich and nutritious seafood dishes. In which there is a dish, the processing method is very simple but has a unique flavor that visitors should not ignore, which is fish and potato porridge.
13.1 How to choose fish and potatoes
In order to have a delicious pot of fish and potato porridge, you must first choose fresh fish with a transparent body and natural pink fins. The sweet potato fish that have black fins, big belly, dull fish meat means that the fish has been spoiled or coated with preservatives and will no longer taste good.
13.2 How to cook Fish and Potatoes
Taro fish is preliminarily cleaned with diluted salt water, removing the head, gills and intestines, but keeping the stomach because the stomach of the sweet potato fish is very crispy and fatty. There is a note that when making fish, do not cut open the belly of the fish to avoid the fish being crushed during processing.
After preliminary processing and washing, the fish is cut into two or three pieces (depending on the size of small or large fish), then marinated with spices including garlic, minced chili, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, …
After the preliminary processing is completed, we put the water in the pot with a little white rice to boil until soft, season to taste, then add the seasoned fish to the porridge pot and continue to boil until the porridge boils. Continuously skim foam, add scallions and a little pepper, we have a delicious and nutritious pot of fish and potato porridge. Note that when putting fish in the porridge pot, do not stir because the fish will be crushed.
13.3 Uses of cassava fish
Potato fish porridge has a high nutritional content, is very cool to eat, nutritious and benign, has a cooling and laxative effect.
When eating, we will feel in each piece of sweet potato fish, tinged with the salty taste of the homeland’s sea, plus the ecstatic aroma of onions and pepper, and a little more spicy at the tip of the chili’s tongue. …
All blend together to form a delicious and attractive dish of Tra Vinh sea, making anyone who has once enjoyed the fish and potato porridge, it will be difficult to forget its characteristic delicious taste.
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