DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Canh Chua
Becca Du describes this canh chua as her family’s traditional Vietnamese sweet and sour soup.
About Canh Chua
Becca Du describes this canh chua as her family’s traditional Vietnamese sweet and sour soup. Catfish and pork share a tamarind broth with pineapple, tomatoes, elephant ear stalk and bean sprouts.
Tamarind brings the sourness, balanced by pineapple and sugar. Ginger and onion flavour the broth, while rice paddy herb adds the citrusy note the author associates with the familiar soup of her childhood.
Pieces of fish and vegetables fill the broth, with white rice served alongside. The publisher also suggests a separate fish-sauce dip for the catfish and ca kho to as an accompanying dish.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
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Ingredients in Canh Chua
Becca Du’s traditional family catfish canh chua.
- Pork ribsProtein
- Yellow onionAromatic
- Fresh tamarindSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Canned pineappleBase
- GingerAromatic
- CatfishProtein
- Elephant ear stalk (bac ha)Base
- TomatoesBase
- Bean sproutsBase
- Granulated sugarSweetener
- Rice paddy herb (ngo om)Aromatic
- WaterLiquid
- White riceAccompaniment
- Ca kho toAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Fish sauceAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Pork ribs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Selected actual recommended bone-in cut87/145.
- Yellow onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh tamarind: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual fresh-tamarind option; no soup-mix formula.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Canned pineapple: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual canned option128; broader pineapple candidate, complete can formula unprovided.
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Catfish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Species unspecified; no salmon substitution.
- Elephant ear stalk (bac ha): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact catalogue culinary stem candidate; botanical species not inferred.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bean sprouts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source plural generic sprouts; bean species unspecified.
- Granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Top-listed134, method addition stage unspecified.
- Rice paddy herb (ngo om): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit parboiling, fresh pork broth and separate tamarind extraction allocations consolidated.
- White rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual143 serving; prepared rice upstream formula unspecified.
- Ca kho to (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual106 customary accompanying catfish dish; optional meal pairing, full subformula unknown.
- Fish sauce (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual148 optional catfish dipping accompaniment, full product formula unspecified.
Origins & food traditions
Vietnam association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Vietnam
- VietnamCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Vietnamese Cuisine
- Vietnamese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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