Beef Sour Soup
The soup is one of the most popular dishes in Cambodia. It tastes sweet and sour, and one key ingredient is lemongrass paste “Kroeung.” The soup “Samlor” is cooked with ingredients such as beef, kroeung, prahok “fermented fish.” and a mix of vegetables: water spinach “morning glory”, eggplant, curry leaves, and tamarind for sourness.
Ingredients: beef with tendon, lemongrass paste, fermented fish, tamarind paste, round eggplant, water spinach or morning glory, curry leaves.
Ingredients: salt, palm sugar, fish sauce, lemongrass paste juice, water, chicken soup base mix (optional).
Lemongrass Sour Soup
The soup is one of the most popular dishes in Cambodia. It tastes sweet, sour and cooked with ingredients such as beef, kroerng, prahok "fermented fish." and a mix of vegetables: water spinach "morning glory", eggplant, curry leaves, and tamarind for sourness.
Ingredients
Method
Preparation:
- First, prepare all the vegetables. Chop and clean well with water and set aside.
- Tamarind paste:In a small bowl, combine hot boiling water and tamarind, then stir until it becomes a paste.
- Lemongrass paste:Use a blender, put all the ingredients in: lemongrass (thinly sliced), garlic, galangal (thinly sliced), kaffir lime leaves (thinly sliced), turmeric, and water blend until becomes a paste. Then extract the juice for later use.
- Fermented fish: finely chop and set aside.
- Beef: thinly slice.
Cooking:
- In a large pot, over medium heat, add the beef and stir, then add lemongrass paste, chopped fermented fish, and stir to combine.
- Continue adding in: salt, palm sugar, chicken soup base mix, fish sauce, tamarind paste, stir. Cover and simmer. While simmering, keep stirring occasionally to avoid burning on the bottom. Add lemongrass juice and stir, then continue simmering.
- Once the water has evaporated, add water and bring to a boil then add in eggplant and water spinach.
- Curry leaves:Roast the curry leaves on a nonstick pan until fragrant. Traditionally, we grill the leaves directly on the fire to have the smokey fragrant.
- Then after grilling, add the leaves immediately into the broth and stir to combine. It's ready to serve.
Sweet fish sauce (optional):
- In a small sauce bowl, mix fish sauce, warm water, sugar, lime, chilies and mix well.
- Serve with rice.
- Enjoy!
[…] There are three types of lemongrass paste, one is made for green curry, for example, Samlor Kor Ko, Cambodian Lemongrass Sour Soup, the second is made for red curries such as chicken curry, beef stew, and the third is a special […]