Cá Kho tộ - (For 10 people)

Cá kho tộ is one of the most delicious food in Vietnamese cuisine. It is braised in a thick, mahogany-colored sauce containing caramelized sugar and fish sauce. It tastes mildly salty-sweet. It is the best use if being served with steamed white rice. As follows, I’ll show the easy way to cook this wonderful food. However, It is not too hard if you follow my directions: 

 

Ingredient

1 kg fish (one of these kind of fish: Serranidae, snake-head fish, Barramundi, Climbing gourami, …)

10 bottom of scallion: 10

1 teaspoon of salt

3 chili peppers

150 grams sugar

200 ml water

1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate

1 teaspoon of pepper

150 ml fish sauce

3 spoons of cooking oil

 

START TO DO

Step 1: Slice fish about 3-4cm

Step 2: Marinate fish with spice:

·        Flatter the bottoms of the scallion, then chop them.  

·        Adding them with salt and whole chili peppers into the fish.

Step 3: Making the sauce:

·        Mix and stir sugar cooking oil, water in the pot (clayey pot),

·        Start to cook and go on to stir until it like to be thick, add fish sauce, stir again.

·        Turn off the stove, add and mix the marinated fish into the pot.

·        When the fish absorbed the sauce, turn on the stove.

·        When the fish is cooked, add the monosodium glutamate then turn off the stove.

·        In the end, add pepper

Good appetite