Stew with seafood (Lẩu Hải Sản)

The stew (in Vietnamese is "LẨU") is a typical Vietnamese dish that is characterized by its generosity. It is also a great dish for family gatherings or a cozy evening with friends.
To taste this dish, you put what you want in a spicy broth and boiling it for cooking meat, seafood, vegetables, rice vermicelli, etc ... Of course, the stock will be prepared in advance.

Here is the recipe of stew with seafood (Lẩu Hải Sản)

6-8 servings Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

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• 1.5 liters of broth
• 100 g of fish pellets
• 200 g of fish fillet, thinly sliced
• 300 g fresh shrimp
• 200 g of cuttlefish, emptied and peeled
• 1 kg of white hulls
• 200 g of straw mushroom
• 2 tablespoons lemon grass, chopped (or lemongrass powder)
• 2 tablespoons tamarind without nuclei
• 3 teaspoons of dried seasoning (to taste)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tomatoes cut into eight
• 1 chilli, finely chopped
• 200 g edible chrysanthemum branch, washed, cut into 5 cm
• 200 g of water spinach, washed, cleaned and bad parts of the leaves, the remaining stem sliced ​​8 cm
• 1 kg of round rice pasta
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce sauce

Production :

1. Wash the cuttlefish. With a sharp knife draw diamonds on the pieces of squid and cut them into pieces of 6 cm long and 4 cm wide. Feed the fish balls in boiling water.

2. Wash the straw mushroom and remove the bad parts, then soak them in salt water for 20 minutes, then let them drain. Cut any large mushrooms in half. Wash and cut the mushroom stems stems.
3. Crush the tamarind in a cup of boiling water to collect his brown juice

4. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pan, add garlic and lemongrass, already chopped. Sauté garlic and lemongrass, then add the tomatoes. Season with ½ teaspoon dried seasoning coffee or ½ teaspoon salt, to taste. Brown the whole.

5. Bring the broth to a boil ed, add the tamarind juice and straw mushrooms. Season with dehydrated seasoning, salt and sugar. Then add the tomatoes, garlic and lemongrass. Add some pepper, to taste. Season again.

6. Decorate the tray of the pot to stew with shrimp, fish balls, fish fillets and white hulls.

7. Put the mushrooms stems, herbs, and vegetables on a large plate.

8. Pour the broth into the pot to stew, place it on the stove. Put the plate of vegetables on the table.
When the broth comes to a boil, add the ingredients slowly to cook on the table.

9. Use round rice noodles and fish sauce sauce as an accompaniment.
If you do not have round rice pasta, you can replace them with wheat pasta. Soak the wheat pasta in boiling salted water, bring them to a boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, pour the pasta in a colander, let drain and mix in a tablespoon of oil to the pasta does not stick. You can choose your own vegetables as accompaniment.