Strange with how to make delicious and healthy cactus sour soup

Cactus is a thorny plant, abundant in the dry land that is central Vietnam, especially in Quang Nam. Perhaps many people only know that cactus is an ornamental plant but do not know that cactus is the raw material for making a very special sour soup. Let’s learn how to make cactus sour soup according to the simple recipe below for the whole family to enjoy.

The first benefit of cactus is that cactus has a lot of fiber and low calorie content, so it is very suitable for people who want to lose weight .

Cactus contains a lot of vitamins A and C that help improve skin cells . In addition, as nutritionists explain: ” In terms of minerals, they are rich in calcium, magnesium and sodium, which are important electrolytes for muscle contraction, hydration, and cell function .”

Cactus also contains many antioxidants that are able to protect cells in the body from free radical damage . In particular, cactus also helps to reduce cholesterol, so recently many patients with high blood pressure and atherosclerosis have used this herb to assist in the treatment of the disease.

>> The unexpected healing uses of cactus

Let’s see how to make cactus sour soup

Ingredients for Cactus Sour Soup

• 3 young cactus leaves
• 1 snakehead fish
• 5-8 okra balls
• 1 mint leaf
• Coriander, purple onion, tamarind juice
• Spices: Sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking oil

How to make cactus sour soup

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Cactus leaves you cut off the spines and spines along the sides of the leaves, then wash and cut into thin slices.

Snakehead fish cleaned and cut into pieces.

Mint, okra washed and cut into bite-sized pieces.

Thinly sliced dry onion.

Step 2: Pre-fry the fish

Put the pot on the stove, then you add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, then you put the dried onions in the pan and fry the fish, you don’t need to fry the fish until it’s cooked, just fry the two sides until golden brown, so that when you cook the fish soup, it’s not too hot. fishy and fragrant fish.

Step 3: Cook cactus sour soup with fish

You use the same pot that has just fried fish to cook sour soup, you pour into the pot about 1 liter of water to boil, then put the fish in to cook, then add tamarind juice to increase the acidity of the soup and season with spices. Taste to taste: 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon MSG, 1 teaspoon salt and stir with chopsticks.

Next, you add the vegetables including: cactus leaves, mint, okra and cook for about 5 minutes , then add coriander leaves and turn off the stove.

Finished product

You scoop out the cactus sour soup and eat it with hot rice, it will be very delicious.

On hot days, cactus sour soup is the best cooling dish. This soup has the strange sour taste of the cactus, the bold sweetness of fish meat, ensuring that anyone who eats it once will remember it forever. Good luck with this new recipe!

See more:

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