Vietnam

Cá chiên nước mắm

Name: Cá chiên nước mắm
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: Fish, whole fish or thick fillets; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 tbsp tapioca starch; Cooking oil (vegetable oil), for shallow frying, about 40 g used; 6 cloves minced garlic; 2 minced fresh red chillies (fresh red chiles); 3 tbsp fish sauce; 2 1/2 tbsp sugar; 3 tbsp water; Lemon, lime juice; Coriander leaves (cilantro), sprigs; Spring onion (green onion, scallion), sliced

Crisp fried fish glazed in garlicky caramel fish sauce. Rice will disappear fast.

30 minTime

31 gProtein each

mediumSpice

Fish sauce glaze2 chapters · 1 min read

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Grandma's wayFried fish glazed with garlic, chilli and caramelised fish sauce.

The original

381kcalsame

31 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

30minutessame

Cá chiên nước mắm.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Fishwhole fish or thick fillets

Salt½ tsp

Tapioca starch2 tbsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for shallow frying, about 40 g used

Garlic6 cloves, minced

Fresh red chillies (fresh red chiles)2, minced

Fish sauce3 tbsp

Sugar2½ tbsp

Water3 tbsp

Lemonlime juice

Coriander leaves (cilantro)sprigs

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)sliced

Method

4 steps

1Pat the fish dry, score it, rub with salt and dust lightly with starch.
2Shallow fry 5 minutes a side until golden and the flesh flakes easily.
3In 1 tbsp of the oil, fry the garlic and chilli until fragrant. Add the fish sauce, sugar and water and bubble 2 minutes.
4Add lime juice, pour over the fish and top with herbs.

Serve it like this

Serve the fish on a platter with the glaze spooned over, with steamed rice, a clear soup and boiled greens.

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