The way to cook sour and mild star fruit hot pot, sweet to the bones, will help housewives easily change the taste of meals for the whole family. With a hot pot with a natural sour taste from green star fruit, it will be a dish that is not too fussy in processing but brings a pleasant feeling, stimulates taste buds and is very suitable for evenings when the whole family gathers together.
To make this hot pot dish, housewives need to prepare 1kg of fresh pork bones and 3 large sour star fruit fruits. Among them, star fruit should be chosen as fresh green or slightly yellowed to have the right sourness.
The accompanying ingredients will include 3 ripe tomatoes, 2 lemongrass stalks, 1 dried onion and 1 small clove of garlic. Seasoning will include delicious fish sauce, granulated sugar and seasoning powder.
Buy tube bones, wash them, blanch them in boiling water with a little salt to clean dirt, then simmer with 2.5 liters of filtered water for about 2 hours over low heat to get clear and sweet broth.
While simmering bones, housewives should pre-process the tubers and fruits. Wash sour star fruit, peel off the flesh and then slice thinly into a star shape. Cut tomatoes into wedges, crush fresh lemongrass into pieces, and mince shallots and garlic.
The hot pot broth cooking stage directly determines the finished product's flavor. Heat the pot with a little cooking oil, add minced shallots and garlic and crushed lemongrass and fry until golden brown and fragrant. Next, add tomatoes and half a pound of star fruit and stir well, season with fish sauce and seasoning powder to make the tubers and fruits softer and produce a natural orange-red color.
Put the well-filtered bone broth in a pot, simmer until it boils, then you can add the remaining sour star fruit. Housewives season with granulated sugar so that the sourness of the star fruit and the sweetness of the bones reach the most balanced and harmonious level.
A complete pot of sour star fruit hotpot will have a clear broth, sweetness from the bone marrow blended with the mild sourness of star fruit. Before enjoying, sprinkle a little coriander and chopped water spinach to enhance the aroma. Star fruit hotpot broth is very suitable for dipping beef, cartilage ribs or seafood, served with fresh vermicelli and water spinach.
