Vegetable soup with cassava and sour fish cooked with fish – An ordinary specialty of the people of King Hung’s land

When introducing the homeland’s cuisine, the people of Phu Tho cannot help but mention the sour cassava and fish soup.
Anyone who has ever visited the midland land of Phu Tho must have enjoyed a bowl of sour vegetable and cassava soup. This dish has many ways to cook but the best is still when it is cooked with fish. The warm vegetable color like the middle land color, the sweet vegetable taste like the love of the ancestors will make someone eat once and remember not to forget.

Vegetable soup with cassava and sour fish cooked with fish – a simple dish of the people of King Hung’s land. For many people, cassava is a rustic dish, not important to the form, not a delicacy, but this dish requires elaborate and thorough processing. That shows right from the selection stage of cassava vegetables. Not all cassava can be harvested with edible leaves. According to the experience of the Phu Tho people, only green leafy white cassava vegetables can process this attractive dish. If you choose the wrong type of bamboo-leaf cassava, the color of the leaves is purple, it is easy to get drunk because this is a poisonous cassava. Cassava must choose green leafy vegetables to correct standards. In the dish of sour cassava vegetable soup, it is necessary to choose the chubby young cassava buds with the smooth chalk layer on the top of the buds, after being washed, they need to be crushed to get all the plastic. The crumpling of cassava leaves is also an important step to bring out the flavor of the dish, the torturer must be skillful so that the cassava leaves are soft, the waves are even buds, not crumbled into segments. Fresh cassava vegetables must still have new buds to taste. The cassava resin is then thoroughly crumpled to remove the cassava resin. After the crushing step is the sour salt step. At this time, cassava leaves are mixed with a bit of salt to make the vegetables more flavorful and help cassava vegetables become more sour, can not be damaged or dizzy for a long time. Therefore, when adding salt, you must choose so that the vegetables are not too salty, not too light because they easily spoil the vegetables. After the salt has been mixed, bring it to a jar or jar, and let it sit for 4 to 5 days to ferment. The fermented cassava vegetables have an even yellow color, giving up an attractive aroma, leaving a simple taste that is unforgettable. Cassava vegetables 4-5 days after sour salt have a very fragrant smell. Vegetable and sour cassava soup cooked with fish has a very strange taste, more attractive than fish cooked in the lowlands. The dish of cassava and fish cooked on the wood stove is very rich: the smell of kitchen smoke, the smell of sour taste, the aroma of fish meat, … intertwined. This dish does not need to add any seasoning vegetables to eat is still very delicious. A bowl of sour cassava and fish soup does not need to be seasoned much, it is still very “rice”. Anyone who comes to Phu Tho must try this dish, otherwise the trip is considered incomplete. Cassava vegetable soup at first glance nothing flowery. However, when eating, diners will be conquered by the delicious and strange taste. It is also the simple taste of this midland dish.