Spicy Fish Soup Recipe

Hot-and-sour fish soup

Name: Hot-and-sour fish soup
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: grated to make 2 tbsp ginger; 1 dried red chilli; 2 spring onions thinly sliced; 1 stem lemongrass lightly bashed; 700ml chicken or fish stock; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp rice vinegar; 400g skinless white fish cut into cubes; 2 handfuls baby spinach; 2 tsp fish sauce; (optional) cooked noodles

Published: February 5, 2015 at 4:04 PM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 20 mins

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This quick and easy Asian-inspired hot-and-sour fish soup is full of big flavours like ginger, chilli and lemongrass but is ready in just 20 minutes.

Low calorie

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Ingredients

Nutrition

grated to make 2 tbsp ginger
1 dried red chilli
2 spring onions

thinly sliced
1 stem lemongrass

lightly bashed
700ml chicken or fish stock
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp rice vinegar
400g skinless white fish

cut into cubes
2 handfuls baby spinach
2 tsp fish sauce
(optional) cooked noodles

Nutrition: per serving

kcal240

low
fat2.1g
saturates0.6g
carbs4.1g
fibre2.8g
protein49.7g
salt6.4g

Method

step 1

Put the ginger, chilli, spring onions, lemongrass and stock in a pan and bring to a simmer. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the soy sauce, vinegar and fish, and simmer for 2 minutes. Stir in the spinach and season with the fish sauce. Adjust the vinegar and soy sauce if you like, add noodles to make the soup more substantial, and don’t forget to remove the lemongrass and chilli before serving.

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