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Sweet and sour shrimp and pineapple soup
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Sweet and sour shrimp and pineapple soup

18 ingredients 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

Sour flavours from underripe tomatoes and star fruit, with coriander, chicken stock and prawns make a glorious dish.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

609
Calories
60g
Protein
18g
Fat
56g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 15 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Pineapple 1 cup chunks (165g) 82
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Water not in our table 0
Star Fruit not in our table 0
Tamarind not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 chicken
  • 1-1.5 litres/2-2½ pints water (to cover)
  • 1cm/½in piece fresh ginger
  • 2 leeks
  • 2-3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 small tomatoes, preferably slightly unripe, peeled and quartered
  • 2 tbsp nam pla ( fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 star fruit, preferably slightly unripe, thinly sliced
  • 1 small pineapple
  • ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp tamarind
  • 1-2 tsp sugar
  • 500ml/18fl oz chicken stockchicken stock
  • 3 spring onions
  • 1 kg/2lb 2oz raw king prawns
  • 1 large handful fresh coriander
  • 1 fresh long red chilli

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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