One afternoon, I was at an eating house along Joo Chiat Road enjoying their famous delicacy that is the curry fish head with two others dishes to accomplish a satisfying lunch. One of the side dish that we ordered was this spinach soup with silver fish. I really fell in love with this spinach soup because of its refreshing and flavourful taste. It is a simple soup comprises of spinach, silver fish, mince pork and some shallots to enhance the flavour of the soup. I think it would be easy to cook and decided to copy their version using my own cooking instinct.
Well, the result was satisfying and I started to cook this soup for my family occasionally. It is a simple, hearty and nutritious soup embrace with high volume of calcium as I used ingredients like ikan bilis, spinach and silver fish which contain significant amount of calcium for our body. You may refer to My Cooking Journal 9 to find out more on the benefits of spinach and I hope you will enjoy this soup as much as I do.
My Ingredients:
1. 1 pack (200g) Spinach – Wash
2. 200g Ikan Bilis - (Stock) Wash
3. 100g to 200g minced pork – Rinse, marinate and roll into balls
4. 50g – Dry Silver fish - Rinse
5. 3 slices Ginger
6. 2 - 3 cloves Garlic – Deskin and cut into slice
7. 3 cloves shallot – Deskin and cut into slice
8. 1 teaspoon sesame oil – for marinate
9. 1 teaspoon fish sauce - for marinate
10. Pinch of corn flour – for marinate
11. pinch of pepper, salt and sugar – for marinate and to taste
12. 1 tablespoon olive oil
13. 1.6 litre Water (enough to serve 2-3 person)
14. Fried shallot and diced spring onions (for garnish)
