Khmer Lemony Fish Soup
Ingredients
- 2 lbs fresh basa, catfish or snakehead fish cleaned and cut into chunks
- 2 tablespoons Jasmine rice rinsed and drained
- 1 stalk lemon grass cut 5 inches in length and tied into bunches
- 4 cups water
- 1/2 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 stalks green onion chopped
- 2 hot chili pepper chopped (optional)
- 1/2 cup mix herbs sweet basil (chee korhom), and Asian coriander ( chee xanghum) chopped
- 1 fresh lime or lemon sliced
Instructions
- Put fish, rice, lemon grass and water in a large soup pot and cook till rice tender, stirs often.
- Seasoning with sugar, fish sauce and black pepper.
- Top with green onion, chili pepper and mix herbs.
- Serve hot with rice.
- Add fresh squeezed lime juice(to your taste) to soup when eat.
