Amok is a famous traditional Cambodian dish and is a symbol when it comes to the culinary quintessence of the golden pagoda country. Amok steamed fish combines many ingredients such as fish, palm sugar, coconut water, and soaked fish sauce to create a unique flavor for the dish. The main ingredient used to make this Cambodian specialty is snakehead fish or catfish, but the most delicious is still fruit fish because these fish have a lot of meat, less bones, and fish are not broken. Besides, the dish also includes other ingredients such as khong, coconut milk, eggs, palm sugar, prohock fish sauce and a few leaves (or leaves) to create color or flavor for the dish. Especially to cook this dish must have all the ingredients because without any kind of flavor, there is a lack of originality. The way to make the Amok steamed fish dish is also quite sophisticated and complex. The first is mango, beef sauce, sugar and eggs, beaten into a mixture, turmeric powder, cooked for a viscous consistency, attractive colors. Clean fish, remove the intestines and wrap the whole piece of fish into this mixture, add a few leaves and wrap it with banana leaves and steam. Before serving, people will add a scoop of coconut milk and a few slices of chili to make Amok steamed fish more fragrant. A fragrance mixed with coconut milk, chili, fish sauce, extremely attractive sugar smell makes you want to eat immediately. Peeling off the banana leaves emits a smoky and scent smell. Try a bite, anyone will be fascinated by both the taste and the taste. It is a little taste of fish, the aroma of banana leaves, the pulp of eggs and a little fat of coconut milk, the sweet sweetness of palm sugar is extremely strange. The golden color of turmeric and other cooking ingredients gives the Amok steamed fish a very beautiful color. This dish is better when eaten while still hot and must be eaten with glutinous rice and a glass of palm leaf wine that is really “extreme”. Amok steamed fish is a typical Cambodian dish not only appearing in daily meals but also in luxury restaurants. When enjoying this dish you must also slowly, slowly eat each piece so that the delicious flavors gradually dissolve in your mouth. That way, one can fully feel the quintessential, wonderful combination of two seemingly unrelated ingredients: fish and coconut. Photo: IT. Invite readers to watch the video “Fluttering the price of 1 million only a few dishes, not both rice and sticky rice”. Source: VTV TSTC.

In fact, in order to have delicious fish or sea fish or river fish, the processing stage so that the fish is not fishy is very important. There are many ways to get rid of the fishy smell after you’ve washed it.

Firstly, you should wash the fish with water to wash the rice, which will help reduce fish fishy when processing. Or when washing fish should rub salt on the body of the fish, wash off all the fishy blood in the abdomen and blood stagnant along the fish’s spine and gills.

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Alternatively, you can use ginger alcohol, or rice vinegar or grain salt, fresh lemon to rub the surface and inside of the fish. The aroma of alcohol, vinegar or lemon and the antiseptic properties of the salt will quickly make the fishy smell go away and the fish will no longer be viscous.

After washing, let the fish drain or dry the fish before processing it will also help limit the fishy smell. And remember, the fish’s belly will have black membranes, this is one of the reasons why your fish pot is fishy. Therefore, you should peel off that black film and rinse thoroughly.

If you make fish that break the bile, you can use alcohol to rub it on the bile, leave it for a while, then rinse with cold water, the bitter taste of the fish bile will be gone.

The ingredients need to prepare:

• Fresh, delicious fish: You can choose carp, anchovies, and fruit.

• Green bananas: Range 4 – 5 fruits.

• Galangal: 1 small bulb or can buy pre-ground galangal.

• Ginger, dried onion, fresh chili.

• Bacon: 200-300g.

• Spices: seasoning seeds, soup powder, cooking oil, sugar, turmeric powder, delicious fish sauce.

Steps to perform the green banana stewed fish:

With this simple and delicious fish warehouse, your family will have a perfect meal right away.

• Clean fish, cut to taste, drain.

• The bacon is only exposed to boiling water, washed, sliced ​​to taste.

• Marinate bacon and fish with three teaspoons of soup powder, two teaspoons of seasoning powder, a little onion, chopped galangal, a little turmeric, two teaspoons of fish sauce. Let the fish infuse spices for 30 minutes. Occasionally stir or roll the fish up.

Galangal, thinly sliced ​​ginger.

• Chili fruit or cut into small pieces (depending on the spicy level).

• Put a little cooking oil in the pan, add 3-4 teaspoons of sugar, the sugar turns yellow, turn off the heat, add a little white water to get the brown sugar water.

• Wash green bananas, leave the outer green skin or peel the skin as you like, cut the cut into bite-sized pieces.

• Prepare pot, first layer put galangal, ginger on the bottom, followed by a layer of green banana. After infusing the fish, the fish is placed on top of the banana layer, alternating with pieces of bacon. Add chili, galangal and a few tablespoons of cooking oil together.

• Pour the broth into the pot, add water, bring to a boil and lower the heat until the water is gone. Tasting seasonings to fit your mouth but do not turn the fish, if the banana, meat and fish are not yet tender but the fish pot has run out of water, add a little more water and simmer until the ingredients are soft and dry. . Before turning off the heat, pour a few more tablespoons of cooking oil on top to make the pot more beautiful and shiny.

• When the pot of fish is completely dry, place it on a plate and enjoy it together.

Some things to note

You should note that when adding water to the fish stocking, you should not pour cold water, but pour boiled water into the warehouse so that the fish does not become fishy. Note, during the storage process, do not turn or mix the fish because it will make the fish crush and lose its appetite.

• Initially, when you first put the pot of fish on the stove, you should cook the pot very high until the fish is boiling, lower the heat until the water is dry.

• When stocking fish, you should store with a little chicken fat or pork fat, the fish will be fatter and delicious.

• You can also add a little coconut milk in the pot of fish stock to make the fish more spiced, fatty and fragrant. Finished fish stock should sprinkle a little more pepper to make the fish more fragrant.

• One thing that women need to keep in mind is that they should not put oil / fat on the fish right from the moment they are marinated, because by doing that, the fish will soften.