When I was young, we made it a point to have a soup dish in every meal, in retrospect, I guess that’s a great way to have kids having enough liquid in our diet?
Anyway, I remember that one of my favorites of such soup dishes were the salted fish bone tofu and pork soup. So when I was at Kota Kinabalu not too long ago, I made it a point to get myself some good quality whole kurau salted fish that includes the boney bits.
So here’s the recipe I got from mom.
Ingredients:
- salted fish bone (preferably ikan kurau)
- a bulb of garlic, peeled
- an inch of ginger, sliced
- spring onion, cut into 2 inches length
- pork slices, 300-500 gram
- tofu, 2 blocks
- 2 liter of water
- 4-5 tablespoon cooking oil
Instructions:
- soak fish bone for half an hour
- fry garlic, ginger and fish bone till fragrant
- add pork slices and brown the exterior
- add water and bring to boil for at least half hour
- add tofu for the last minute, add spring onion too
Comfort food for rainy days for sure!
KY cooks – Salted Fish Bone Tofu Soup
Salted fish and tofu soup? Gotta try this, never seen before. Salted veg & tofu, yes. At best, I had salted fish on tofu, steamed.
suituapui: it’s a bit of a classic Hokkien dish I believe.
I also have not had salted fish bone in soups before but I do know that salted fish bone curry is very nice especially the one my mother-in-law makes with added prawns & pineapples. Good quality salted fish bone is not easy to find here.
eatwhateatwhere: oh yessss, that’s right, you need a trip to KK! haha.
Never had such a luxury to enjoy salted fish bone tofu soup before. I guess my family is not a big fan of salted fish.
Tekkaus: time to adopt a new family.
Soup flavoured by salted fish bone, what’s not to like! But can we get solely salted fish bones in the market because if I buy the whole salted fish, it will takes me forever to finish it 😛
choi yen: you can send me the salted fish and keep the bone I’m ok with that. haha.
I love tofu! I will surely going to try this.
Cha: make it happen!