Authentic Western Vietnamese Sweet and Sour Soup Recipe

To make snakehead sour soup, you need the following fresh ingredients:
Raw ingredients
 800g fillet barramundi/peeled prawns.
 2-3 stems of “Bac Ha” (Taro Stem) (optional)
 1/2 ripen pineapple.
 2-3 Tomatoes
 10 okras (optional)
 1-2 chillies (optional)
 150g bean sprouts
 Minced garlic, red onion, cilantro (Optional), green onion, Thai basil and coriander for garnishing, tamarind paste (1-2 tablespoons mixing with 1 tablespoon of lukewarm water.
Pantry ingredients
 Seasonings: sugar, salt, seasoning, fish sauce, MSG (optional), cooking oil

Cooking instructions:
Step 1: Preliminary processing of raw materials
 To remove the fish’s fishy and viscous smell, use salt and 1 sliced lemon to rub on the fish and gently rinse. Cut into bite-sized slices.
 Marinate the fish with a pinch of salt, seasoning seeds and chopped red onion for about 20 minutes to absorb the seasoning.
 Okra cut off the tip of the tail into bite-sized pieces and washed pineapple sliced into thin pieces. Taro stems -along the nets, strip the peel, thinly slice, and squeeze well with salt.
 Tomatoes were washed in warm water and drained to remove seeds. Garlic peeled and finely chopped; chillies (optional) thinly sliced.
Step 2: Cooking soup
 Turn on the burner and put in a saucepan of less fragrant, non-aromatic oil 1 onion and 2 cloves of chopped garlic; at this point, add the fish; when the fish is cooked on both sides (try to turn the fish over once or twice only to not break the fish up into pieces), add 500ml water, or just enough to eat/to cover the raw ingredients. Also, add the pre-prepared pineapple, tomato, and tamarind juice.
 When boiling, season to taste and remove the foam to clear the broth; add okra along the taro stems and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
 Add the bean sprouts, chopped cilantro, coriander, green onion, and Thai basil, and turn off the burner.
Step 3: Serving the soup with steamed jasmine rice!
 The ultimate snakehead sour soup is finished. Now, scoop the soup into a bowl and sell it with a cup of salty fish sauce with a few chilli slices.
Have fun cooking and enjoy!