Southeast Asian Fish Soup

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Cook Time:
15 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
6 servings

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Prep: 15 min
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Cook: 15 min
Total:: 30 min

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Ingredients

3 cups water
3 (8-ounce) bottles clam juice
4 scallions, thinly sliced, white and green parts separated
2 stalks lemongrass, tops trimmed, tender stalks cut into 2-inch pieces and smashed
1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced (2 tablespoons)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon Asian chili paste, such as sambal oelek
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 1/2 pounds red snapper fillet, or other white fleshed fish, skin removed
4 white mushrooms, sliced
2 carrots, shredded
1 cup cilantro leaves and stems, roughly chopped
Kosher salt
Lime wedges, for serving

Directions

Bring the water and clam juice to a boil over high heat in a large soup pot with the scallion whites, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, and chili paste. Cover and adjust the heat to maintain a simmer, and cook for 10 minutes. Add the fish sauce.

Slice the fish into large chunks and add to the broth with the mushrooms and carrots. Cook over medium heat, uncovered, until the fish is opaque and cooked through, about 4 minutes. (Remove and discard lemongrass.) Stir in the cilantro and scallion greens and season with salt. Spoon into warm bowls and serve with lime wedges.

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recipe Southeast Asian Fish Soup
SHELLY Cincinnati, OH 03-28-2009
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Best Asian soup I have ever eaten.
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I am writing this review as my husband is finishing the dishes from making it so it obviously made an impression. We are... lucky enough to live very near an international marketplace with all of the ingredients for this soup. The shopping list was long but we had fun finding all of the ingredients. We substituted chilean sea bass for the snapper which was AWESOME. We also added some beautiful oyster mushrooms which was great. We doubled the sambol olek chili sauce which gave it quite a kick. My husband raved about it the whole time he was eating it and we both agreed it belonged in an upscale thai restaurant.Read more
recipe Southeast Asian Fish Soup
Anonymous 02-26-2007
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DELICIOUS!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Flavorful version of Filipino Sabau. I recommend adding a tablespoon of Soy Sauce at the end. It is very filling and... extremely low fat!Read more
recipe Southeast Asian Fish Soup
Anonymous 03-08-2005
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Really nice
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I'm not sure why this was rated Medium difficulty. I found it really easy. All you do is chop and add the ingredients. It... was super-fast, reasonably cheap [I used whatever white fish was on sale at Whole Foods], and had a fantastic flavor. The lime served at the table is nearly crucial. It had a good flavor without it, but it really popped with the lime added. Also, I think they were horribly mistaken when they said it had 26 g fat. There's just no way. There's no fat added at all, and it's not like there's hardly any in the fish. I really loved this recipe.Read more