With the combination and processing of many ingredients, the sour soup has partly shown the diversity and richness of Vietnamese cuisine. Here are some sour soup recipes that you can refer to for your family's table.

How to make fish sour soup cooked with star fruit
Material
With sour soup cooked from fish and star fruit, you need the following ingredients:
- Fish: 200 - 350 grams. (You can choose fish such as red snapper, scad, snakehead, ...)
- Tomatoes: 3-5 small fruits (or 2-3 large ones).
- Pineapple: ¼ fruit.
- Sour star fruit: 3-5 fruits.
- Vegetables: coriander, herbs, longan,...
- Red onion, garlic, chili.
- Spices: ground pepper, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, sugar, salt,...
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Red onion, garlic, chili: washed and finely chopped.
- Snakehead fish remove scales, remove mouth and tail. Cut off the gills, use a knife to cut along the belly of the fish and clean the intestines. Rinse with clean water, you can cut the fish in half and put it in a bowl, add ½ teaspoon of fish sauce, a little pepper, ½ teaspoon of seasoning. Marinate for about 7-10 minutes.
- Pineapple peeled, removed the pineapple eyes, washed and cut into small slices.
- Sour star fruit: peel off the two ends and edges of star fruit. Beat until slightly crushed, rinse with water, then squeeze out the water and cut into thin slices.
- Tomato cut off the stem, wash and cut into wedges.
- Root vegetables are removed, washed and finely chopped. Along the mosquito net: peel off the outer skin, wash and cut diagonally.
Step 2: How to cook
- Put the fish in a pot of hot oil, fry until golden on both sides, then put the fish in a bowl
- Fry the minced onions in the oil that has fried the fish. Add tomatoes and pineapple, add 1 tablespoon sugar, ½ teaspoon MSG. Stir well for 2-3 minutes for tomatoes and pineapple to soften.
- Add the fish to the tomato and pineapple mixture and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
- For a sufficient amount of water for your family to use, add sour star fruit.
- Wait for the water to boil for the mosquito net. Taste a little more seasoning to taste
Step 3: Decorate and use
- Put the soup in a large bowl, add the herbs.
- Use with rice.

Recipe for sour soup with minced meat
Material
With minced meat sour soup, you need to prepare some ingredients as follows:
- Lean meat: 200 - 250 grams.
- Red onion, chili, garlic.
- Tomatoes: 2-3 fruits.
- Green pineapple: ½ fruit.
- Cabbage pickles.
- Bean prices.
- Spices: ground pepper, seasoning, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, cooking oil, sugar,...

Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Buy lean meat, wash, cut into pieces and then mince, add about ½ teaspoon of MSG, ½ teaspoon of fish sauce, a little ground pepper.
- Tomatoes are washed, cut, and finely chopped.
- Sauerkraut, bean sprouts are washed and put in a separate basket.
- Pineapple: peel the skin, cut the pineapple eyes, wash and cut into thin pieces.
- Red onion, chili: wash, cut into thin slices.
Step 2: Implement
- Put the oil in a hot pot, fry the minced purple onion.
- Add tomatoes and pineapple, stir until soft, then add meat. Continue to stir until tenderloin is tender.
- Pour a sufficient amount of water for the family to use. Cook until water boils.
- Put the sauerkraut in the pot. Continue to cook until the soup boils and then add the bean sprouts.
- Add seasonings and wait for the soup to boil again, then turn off the heat.
Step 3: Decorate and use
Put the soup in a bowl, sprinkle with green onions and herbs and use.

How to make vegetarian sour soup
Material
For vegetarian sour soup, you need some ingredients as follows:
- Tomatoes: 3-4 fruits.
- Green pineapple: ¼ fruit.
- Mold beans: 1.
- Bean prices.
- Mushroom kimchi.
- Red onion, chili
- Spinach (or collard greens).
- Seasoning: salt, cooking oil, main noodles, pepper, oyster sauce, sugar,...
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Tomatoes: wash and cut areca.
- Wash the molded beans and cut them into small pieces.
- Pineapple peeled, cleaned eyes, washed with clean water and cut into thin pieces.
- Bean sprouts: wash and put in a basket to drain.
- Kimchi mushrooms: cut off the root, wash, tear into small pieces and put in a basket.
- Vegetables are removed roots, old leaves, old stems and then washed, put in a basket to drain.
- Red onion: peeled, washed and cut into thin slices.
Step 2: How to do it
With the vegetarian sour soup recipe, please note:
- Put the oil in the hot pot. Sauté the purple onion until fragrant.
- Bring tomatoes and pineapple to the island, add 1 tablespoon sugar, ½ teaspoon pepper, ½ teaspoon MSG. Stir until pineapple and eggplant are soft.
- Add about 1 large bowl of water, bring to a boil.
- Put the molded beans in. Cook until water boils.
- Add mushrooms and spinach (or collard greens). Cover the pot until it boils again.
- Adjust seasoning to suit your family.
- Place the soup in a large bowl and serve.

How to cook sour soup with shrimp
Material
- Tomatoes: 2-3 fruits.
- Ripe pineapple: ¼ fruit.
- Shrimp: 150 - 200 grams.
- Bean prices.
- Okra.
- Herbs.
- Spices: sugar, cooking oil, pepper, salt, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate,...
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Tomatoes are washed with water, cut into small pieces and minced.
- Ripe pineapple peeled, cut off the eyes, rinsed with water and cut into thin slices.
- Red onions are peeled, washed with water and finely chopped.
- Shrimps cut off the head and tail. Rinse with water. Put in a bowl, add ½ tablespoon fish sauce, 1.2 tablespoons MSG, 1 pinch of pepper and minced onion. Marinate for about 5-7 minutes.
- Bean sprouts, herbs: wash with water and set aside to drain.
- Okra: cut off the stem and wash, cut into bite-sized pieces and put in a bowl.
Step 2: How to do it
- Put the pot on the stove, wait for it to be hot, then add the cooking oil and red onion and fry until fragrant.
- Bring all the marinated shrimp to the island until the shrimp are cooked.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, stir for about 1-3 minutes, add a little sugar.
- Pour a sufficient amount of water for the family to use into the pot.
- Wait for the water to boil, then add the pineapple and okra, cover the pot.
- Bring the water to a boil, then add the bean sprouts.
- Wait for the soup to boil, then re-season the seasoning and turn off the heat.
Step 3: Decorate and use
- Put the sour soup cooked with shrimp in a large bowl. Add herbs.
- Use with rice.

Making sour soup cooked from chicken
Material
- Chicken: 500 - 700 grams.
- Tomatoes: 2-4 fruits.
- Ripe pineapple: ½ fruit.
- Me left.
- Bell peppers: 2.
- Bean prices.
- Ginger, red pepper, red onion.
- Okra.
- Herbs.
- Seasoning: salt, pepper, cooking oil, seasoning, sugar, monosodium glutamate,...
With sour soup cooked from chicken, the steps are as follows:
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Tomatoes: wash and cut areca.
- Pineapple peeled, peeled eyes, washed with water, thinly sliced.
- Ginger, red onion: clean the outer skin, smash and mince finely, red peppers are washed and cut into thin diagonal slices.
- Wash the chicken, clean the bones, cut into small pieces to eat. Add ½ teaspoon of MSG, ½ teaspoon of fish sauce, a little ginger, minced shallot. Marinate for about 7-10 minutes.
- Bell peppers: cut stems, cut in half to remove seeds, wash with water, cut into areca segments and put in a basket.
- Okra: cut off the 2 ends, wash and cut into bite-sized pieces.
- Herbs and bean sprouts: remove the damaged parts, rinse with water and set aside to drain.
- Tamarind fruit: washed with water, soaked in warm water for about 10-15 minutes for sour substance to get water.

Step 2: Implement
- Put the red onion in the hot oil, add the tomatoes and stir until the tomatoes are soft.
- Put the bell peppers in the pot, mix well until the peppers are soft.
- Put the chicken in the pot, mix well with the tomato mixture for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour about a small bowl of tamarind juice and a large bowl of water into the pot and cover the pot. Wait for the broth to boil.
- Put the pineapple and okra in the pot. Wait for the soup to boil completely, then add the bean sprouts and let the soup boil again.
- Adjust seasoning to suit your family's taste.
- Put the soup in a bowl, add herbs and use.
- Oyster sour soup recipe
Material
- Tomatoes: 2 - 3
- Ripe pineapple: ½ fruit.
- Oysters: 150 - 200 grams.
- Purple onion.
- Herbs, green onions.
- Seasoning: salt, pepper, sugar, cooking oil.
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
- Red onions are peeled, washed and finely chopped.
- Oysters take the intestines of oysters, soak them in dilute salt water for about 10 minutes. Then, wash with water and marinate with ½ tablespoon fish sauce, ½ teaspoon MSG, a little ground pepper, minced onion.
- Tomatoes are washed with water and cut into wedges.
- Ripe pineapple, clean the skin, peel off the eyes, wash and slice thinly.
- Herbs, green onions clean the roots and yellow leaves and then wash them. Drain and cut into small pieces and place in a bowl.
Step 2: Implement
- Heat oil in a hot pot and add shallots.
- Add the oysters to the pot and stir until the oysters are tender.
- Bring the tomatoes in, stir until the tomatoes are soft, add a little sugar.
- Pour in a large bowl of water and wait for it to boil.
- Put pineapple in the soup pot and wait for the soup to boil completely.
- Adjust seasoning to suit.
- Add herbs to the soup and use.

Sour soup is one of the dishes chosen by many families for a hot summer day. Along with the combination of many ingredients, the soup is richer, but not so that it loses the unique flavor of each food.