# Canh Chua Đầu Cá Trắm

This is a cooking video of Canh Chua Đầu Cá Trắm, a sour fish head soup.

- Cuisine: Thai
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- ginger slices
- white wine
- fish head and viscera
- 2 tablespoons scallion infused oil
- fish fat
- 1 tablespoon shallots minced
- 2 tomatoes cut into wedges
- 200 grams bamboo shoots
- 3 liters water
- 100 grams pineapple cut into triangular slices
- 2 pieces choysum
- 2 pieces eggplant
- 2 green chili peppers
- 20 grams seasoning powder
- 10 grams MSG
- 50 grams fish sauce
- 15 grams salt
- 10 grams sugar
- 1 fruit lime juice

## Instructions

1. Prepare a pot of boiling water.
2. Add ginger slices and white wine.
3. Add the fish head and viscera.
4. Scald the fish head and viscera to get rid of the fishy smell.
5. Remove the fish from the pot.
6. Add scallion infused oil.
7. Add the fish fat and fry it.
8. Remove the fat and reserve two ladles of oil.
9. Add the shallots and fry until fragrant.
10. Add the tomato wedges and saute.
11. Add the fish head and viscera that had been scalded.
12. Add bamboo shoots.
13. Add water.
14. Once the water boils, add pineapple, choysum, eggplant and green chili peppers.
15. Season with seasoning powder, MSG, fish sauce, salt and sugar.
16. Add lime juice.
17. Serve into a bowl.

## Equipment

- pot
- tongs

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18omRWBhLP/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/fb9fa2a7-a8ed-4d7b-b4fc-a72ea4f51989
- Extracted: 2025-05-12

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