Slow-cooked fish and green mustard pickles (Cá om dưa)
This recipe is for the busy bees who have little time for cooking and own a slow cooker or a multi-cooker. It's very fast but truly tasteful. Best to serve with steamed rice but possible to serve with breads.
Serving: 4 portions
Course: Main dish
Cuisine: Vietnamese
INGREDIENTS:
1 tilapia around 1 kg (or any type of fish you like) cut into 4
1 table spoon of olive oil
Hot water
Dill (as you wish) chopped
Vegetables:
100g green mustard pickle chopped into small cubes
100g tomato chopped into small cubes
Half a pineapple chopped into small cubes
Spices:
3 tea spoons of oyster sauce
2 tea spoons of fish sauce
3 tea spoons of soya sauce
2 tea spoons of sugar
3 tea spoons of tomato sauce
1 tea spoon of salt
1 tea spoon of mushroom soy sauce
1 small shallot chopped
10g ginger chopped
1 small chilli chopped (if you can eat spicy food)
1/2 tea spoon of pepper
PROCEDURE:
Mix all the spices together
Put the fish into the pot
Mix the vegetables together
Put the mixed vegetables into the pot together with the fish
Add the spices mixture to the pot
Add olive oil to the pot
Add water to the pot - the water should be 0.5cm higher than the mixture of fish and vegetables level
Slow cook it 1.5 hours
Add dill when serving