Wednesday, May 8, 2013

How to cook fish with dill and tomato, Vietnamese style

Using dill to cook with fish is very popular cooking style in Vietnam. This is very simple dish, everyone can make it. All ingredients you can buy from any supermarket here, or a better choice: farmer market next to UCI every Saturday morning.

1. All you need
- A whole or fillet or steak of fish, almost all kind of fish is suitable for this dish. Today I have a fillet of mackerel imported from Norway.
- 2 green onion
- Some dill
- 2 tomatoes
- Seasoning: black pepper, 2 tea spoon of fish sauce (if you don't have, try sea salt, it will not tasty but still can be acceptable)

2. Cooking
- Heat 1 spoon of oil and cook the fish until its two sides brown (small piece of fish like mine take 5 mins per side) at medium heat

- While waiting for the fish, prepare the vege: chop the tomato, cut the onion and dill (may be 1/3 inch long)

- After 10 mins, add the white part of green onion and chopped tomato in to the pan, add black pepper, fish sauce, close lid for 5 mins,

- Add 1/2 cup of water, cook for another 5-10 minutes, then add dill and green onion, stir with the sauce inside the pan. Then DONE!




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