Top three regions sour soup: Cooling therapy belongs to the ‘ve-det’ on the summer tray of rice

In the hot summer, the tray of rice with a bowl of sour soup cooked with crocodile or tamarind leaves is great! Do you know how many ‘variations’ of this popular sour soup? Let’s ‘take a look’!
Water spinach sour soup cooked with green crocodile

Green crocodile fruit – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Sour soup with pickled water spinach – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Crocodile is one of many typical summer fruits in the North. Water spinach is boiled, picked out, then put in to make sour, the same crocodile when finished cooking, it is soaked in a bowl of fragrant garlic fish sauce. Just that alone makes the tray of rice cool but wastes rice immensely. Sour soup cooked with tamarind Young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup with young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup cooked with young tamarind leaves or tamarind fruit really has a very strange sour taste, both fragrant and sweet, especially when tamarind is cooked with seafood sour soup. The way to cook is very simple: first, fry the onions very fragrant, add a few pieces of pineapple (fragrant) and then add tamarind and water to boil. When we see enough acidity, add seafood (fish, clams, shrimp…) in. Just boil the water again and have a delicious pot of soup, now if you like a little color, add a few pieces of tomato to make it beautiful and then add onions, cilantro, and coriander to have a delicious pot of soup again. It’s easy to eat! In some areas in Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan, and Quang Nam, at breakfast, you will cook a pot of soup like this and a pot of rice to have a solid meal and enough quality to work until noon. Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves lá Giang leaves often grow wild on the banks of ponds and fences – Photo: Food in green fields Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves – Photo: Delicious dishes every day If you have come to the West and tried the chicken sour soup, you will definitely not forget it because the taste is great. Giang leaf, also known as nom leaf as it is called in the North, is a type of leaf that often grows wild in fences and is very popular. The leaves are washed, lightly crumpled, then cooked with water first, then the chicken is added. The sour taste of Giang leaves mixed with the fatty and aromatic taste of chicken will really make any tray of rice “perforate”. In the Northwest, there is also buffalo meat cooked with nom leaves, which is also an extremely attractive specialty. There are also many sour soup dishes such as vegetarian sour soup, sour bamboo shoot soup… extremely delicious in summer. The sour soup is not too difficult to prepare, the sour taste of the fruits and leaves will help your soup to be delicious in any way. Eating with fresh vermicelli or hot rice is “standard”.