Vegetarian Sour Soup Recipe (Canh Chua Chay)

Today is Buddhist Day, so I decide to make Vegetarian Sour Soup (Canh Chua Chay) which comes from many stunning Vietnamese Recipes Vegetarian for me and family. Nothing is better when you can enjoy with boiled rice in hot day like today. It is really fresh and tasty. A little sweet and sour from this soup will help you get a good appetite.
 

Vegetarian Sour Soup Recipe (Canh Chua Chay)
 
Well, are you curious about one of stunning Vietnamese Recipes Vegetarian like this one? In other days, you can cook regular sour soup with snakehead fish for main ingredient. However, with this dish, you should use tofu instead if you are a vegetarian.

Ingredients:

1 can of young tofu (200g)
1 slice pineapple (100 – 150g)
1 – 2 tomatoes
200g okra
Some brands of Vietnamese mint stem (Dọc mùng)
½ tablespoon tamarind (which usually uses for cooking sour soup)
Spring onion, parsley, sugar, salt

Process:

Step 1: Add tamarind into small bowl, add more hot water and mix until tamarind meat is melted. Filter to get smooth water from tamarind and weed out seeds. Clean and cut off the eyes of pineapple, slice small. Clean tomatoes and slice in 6 equal parts for each. Clean okra and slice shortly.

  
Step 2: Peel off the harsh cover of Vietnamese mint steam (Dọc mùng), slice shortly. Add more a little salt and press gently for few minutes, then clean well again.
  
Step 3: Clean young tofu, slice into circle shapes.
  
Step 4: Heat a little oil, add minced garlic and fry until it is fragrant. Next, add sliced tomatoes and fry until it is cooked (3 minutes). Then, add more sliced pineapple and season with a little salt + sugar. To create one of stunning Vietnamese Recipes Vegetarian, here is the important step you should not miss.
  
Step 5: Add more 2 – 3 bowls of water; cook until it boils and add more tamarind water in step 1 into pot and continue to cook.
  
Step 6: Cook more 10 – 12 minutes. Then, add okra and cook more 5 minutes.
  
Step 7: Add Vietnamese mint stem, young tofu into pot as well, cook with small heat in 5 – 7 minutes.
  
Finally, your soup is finished. Turn off the heat; sprinkle more sliced parsley, spring onion and pepper on face of dish. Serving when it is hot with boiled rice and main vegetarian dishes is a good choice. Moreover, you can serve with vermicelli to. They all are delicious. How do you think?  Hope you love it and do not miss our other Vietnamese Recipes Vegetarian next time. Good Luck for your Cooking.
 

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