Salad is a popular dish in Thanh Tru commune, the countryside near Heron Lake. Both the poor and the rich can make this delicious salad at home without having to do complicate shopping.
To have this delicious salad, it is necessary to prepare spices: soybean or rice powder, leaves of paederia lanuginosa, figs, guava, Polyscias fruticosa, green bananas, ginger, fish sauce, shrimp paste... Wash, clean and dry the fish.
Use a sharp knife to clean and filter the meat from the fish's ribs. Use wrapping paper to cover the meat to absorb the blood. When preparing to eat, cut it into pieces with 4-5cm long and 0.5cm thick / piece, and place on a plate. The head and bones of the fish are sliced and chopped to cook with the sauce. Chopped fish, filtered batch and crushed galangal tubers to remove fiber, cook thoroughly. The cook for the salt sauce is moderate; if the eaters feel light, add to the bowl of sauce that is ready to taste.
Vi Thanh people usually eat the dish in the afternoon, in a cool evening, with family, friends and relatives. The most common way is to eat with the above kinds of leaves and spices.
Put all leaves in the bowl, put the fish salad, roll it and eat with the shrimp sauce, lemon and chili; those who do not eat shrimp paste can add lemon chili fish sauce.
The fish salad is both fragrant and fatty, the more people chew it, the more delicious and refresh people can feel.
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