Fish in sweet sour sauce hai phong style/ cá sốt cà chua

This dish is very easy to make and goes perfect with jasmin rice or bread.
Especially for this time of the year, it's not heavy for the stomach & taste very fresh.

For this dish, I don't have an exactly amount of the ingredients so please don't be upset. Learning by Doing :) 

The ingredients I give you here is only approximately. During cooking, you should always try the taste for yourself out.

Me myself I prefer spicy (it's good for bloodstream :)) and a lot of herbs.
Most people say that garlic doesn't go with fish but for sweet - sour sauce, it goes perfect for me : ) 



Here my approximate ingredients for 2 person:

Ingredients: 

• 2 slide carp, if you are in Berlin you can get them fresh from a russian market, or frozen from an asiamarket. 
• 3-4 tomatoes/ sometimes I also use can tomatoes. It's not as good as fresh one, but still good :) 
• a bunch of dill 
• a bunch of spring onion 
• 1 onion 
• 2-3 garlic ( if you don't like garlic, you don't have to add them)
• 1 chilli 
• a little bit of oil  to fry the fish
• pepper 
• 1-2 spoon sugar 
• organic apple vinegar (in Germany I prefer this vinegar because its' taste is mild and tasty)
• paprica powder
• 1 Maggie bouilon cube
• salt

Preparation:

1. Clean the fish and dry it with kitchen paper/ towel to avoid grease syringe
2. Chop up all the herbs and tomatoes in small pieces. Vietnamese prefer to cut them very petite, but I prefer them more rough for the taste. :) 
3. Heat the oil in the pan with medium heat, add a bit salt to avoid grease syringe
4. Fry the fish from both side until it looks crunchy. 
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6. Heat the oil with another pan/ wok with oil with medium heat until the oil is hot
• put onion & garlic into the pan until the oninion looks translucent.
• add tomatoes into it and fry mit medium heat for about 5 minutes
• put pepper/ chili/ Maggie bouilon cube / vinegar/ sugar into the pot 
• taste if it is sour & sweet enough for you 
• maybe you need to add a little water due to what kind of consistence you prefer If you like the taste of the sauce go to step 7:)
7.  put the fisch into the sauce, put the lid on the pan and let it cook with medium heat for ca. 30-40 min. 
8. After before taking the pan of the stove put the herbs into the pan and stir it up in the sauce. but let some left for decoration 
9. Et voila, you can serve the fish with jasmin rice or white bread

Bon Appetit