Like many other soups, Cambodian food tend to use different vegetable together in a soup. This one is no exception. In Khmer, we call it សម្លប្រហើរ - read as [sɑmlɑɑ prɑhaə] - kind of soup (made with lemon grass, fish, and vegetables such as squash).
We have a similar soup to this one while using smoked fish and its Khmer name is សម្លក់ - read as [Samlork]. Both dishes is the same except that Samlork used smoked fish and you do not work with Kreoung, you just scratch the lemon grass and put it in. All other vegetables are the same for both dishes.
Ingredients
Meat: snakehead fish or smoked fish
Vegetables: , Luffa gourd [must have], winter melon, taro, pumpkin, pumpkin leaves or climbing wattle (I don’t use this one) I use Ivy gourd instead; mushroom, Thyme - rice paddy herb [in my area, we don’t use this but other areas they use it]; lemon grass, turmeric, and garlic.
Ingredients: powder soup, fermented fish (in Samlork, we use fish sauce), brown sugar, salt, and Kreoung. How to make Kreoung can be found here.
How to cook
Fish, clean and cut it.
Pumpkin and other vegetables, clean and peel the skin, cut small pieces.
Boil water and put fish it. When it is cooked, put the fermented fish in.
When it is boiled, put the vegetables in, except Climbing wattle or Ivy gourd and Thyme - rice paddy herb; they have to wait till the end.
Put other ingredients like powder soup, salt, fish sauce, brown sugar and Kreoung (គ្រឿងបុក). How to do it, you can watch here in Youtube and here.
Last, put climbing wattle/ivy gourd/thyme in, done!
I love soups and different varieties of it, though I am stuck up with consuming those available in the supermarket studded with preservatives.
At home, we make Tomato soup with a few vegetables in it and that’s it.
You are fortunate @Sophia_Cambodia to have various ingredients available and enjoy the different soups - superb photos as always and thank you for sharing the recipe
@TusharSuradkar I believe you want to try this if you have a chance to come to Cambodia. You can order from the restaurant. You can record its name and look for it when you are here. Yes, I rather think so that we are fortunate we have almost everything and they are fresh too. The fresh one adds quality to the soup which you cannot find anywhere else.
From the photo of the soup, it seems very tasty and delicious @Sophia_Cambodia Is សម្លប្រហើរ very popular in Cambodia? During winter I also love to eat vegetable soup during my dinner. Thanks for sharing this nice post with us. Regards.
@MukulR thank you dear, it is good to eat during cold season. The soup make you healthy and best eating when it is hot. Sometimes, I only drink the soup! Yes, it is common within the family, quite often we cook this at home.
Yeah, even we are in the hot country we cook soup as the main dish everyday. One meal in the normal family usually has two or three dishes which include soup, stir fry and rice and sometimes there are vegetable pickles to go with them too!
I know dear @helga19 since you are in cold country, there are many things you cannot find there.
We are lucky living in tropical country, so many green plants and vegetables. When I was in New Zealand, I had to wait till summer to eat these things and they are not cheap. Cambodian brought those plants long time ago to NZ and grow them in mirror house.
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