Instructions on how to make delicious Phu Quoc specialty herring salad at home

Herring salad is a very famous dish in Phu Quoc, Kien Giang and is loved by many diners. Now, you can also make this dish yourself right in your kitchen. Let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to make herring salad together!

Ingredients to prepare for about 3-4 people to eat

• Herring: 500 gr
• Peanuts: 200 gr
• Grated coconut: 100 gr
• Onion: 1 piece
• Dried garlic: 1 bulb
• Lemon: 3 fruits
• Chili: 3
• Fresh vermicelli: 500 gr
• Rolled rice paper
• Served with raw vegetables

Steps to make the dish

Preliminary processing of herring

– Buy herring and wash it with water.

– Next, clean the fish scales, remove the tail, 2 gills and wash again.

– Then you continue to cut off the head and intestines. For fish salad, instead of just removing the intestines inside, you should cut off the belly of the fish so that when eating, there is no unpleasant smell.

– After removing the head and intestines, put the fish in a bowl of diluted lemon juice and soak for 5 minutes to remove the fishy smell. Note that the herring after cutting the meat should limit washing the water because that will make the fish very fishy.

Herring fillet

– First you wipe the water on the fish so that the fillet does not slip.

– Next, use one hand to press the fish body, the other hand use a knife to make a deep cut into the fish flesh.

– When the knife reaches the fish bone, you turn back and then move the knife along the bone.

– When you have removed 2/3 of the fish, you use a knife to pierce the fish and then firmly hold the knife with one hand, the other hand pull the meat fiber down the tail to separate the fish meat.

– Continue with the previous steps for the other side of the fish and with the rest of the fish.

Prepare other ingredients

– Roasted peanuts then pounded.

– Onion peeled and finely chopped. Then, you put the onion in water to reduce the pungent taste.

– Wash the peppers, remove the seeds and chop finely.

– Peeled dried garlic, then minced.

– Cut the lemon in half, remove the seeds and squeeze the juice.

– Pickled raw vegetables, soaked in diluted salt water for about 10 to 15 minutes, then rinsed with water.

Make fish sauce and marinate fish

– Put the pan on the stove, add 3 tablespoons of fish sauce and 2 tablespoons of sugar and cook over low heat. When boiling, remember to stir well so that the sugar does not burn. When the mixture thickens and the sugar has dissolved, turn off the heat.

– Put 2 tablespoons of this mixture in a bowl. The rest you save for dipping sauce. Next, you put 2 tablespoons of lemon juice with 2/3 of the garlic and chopped chili in a bowl, stir well. Then, add the herring, mix well and marinate for about 10-15 minutes for the fish to infuse the spices.

Make dipping sauce and enjoy

– You use the remaining fish sauce – sugar mixture to make fish salad sauce. Add the remaining minced garlic and lemon juice to this mixture, then stir well. Then you add the crushed peanuts.

– After marinating the fish, take out the fish and add the onions and mix well. You put the fish on a large plate and sprinkle some roasted peanuts on it.

– Finally, you serve fish salad, dipping sauce, raw vegetables, rice paper rolls, vermicelli with grated coconut and start enjoying.

Tips and Notes

To choose a good herring, you need to look closely at the outside of the fish. Choose fish with bright red gills and not red eyes . If the gills are light red and the eyes are red or completely red, the fish is spoiled.

In addition, you should also choose fish that are slim, have a light pink belly, and have a thick body . Especially should choose herring brooch . Because these fish have small bones, more meat, firmer and more juicy.

How to eat herring salad

– First, you soften the rice paper by dipping it through filtered water.

– Then, you put herring, vermicelli, raw vegetables, desiccated coconut on top of the rice paper and roll it up.

– Finally, you dip the salad in the bowl of dipping sauce and enjoy.

When eating this herring salad, Phu Quoc people will often drink some sim wine, which makes the meal more attractive and rounder.

Above, Tnhelearning.edu.vn showed you how to make Phu Quoc specialty herring salad. Wishing you success!