សម្លកកូរ​ Samlor kokor (Mixed vegetable soup)

 

សម្លកកូរ​ Samlor kokor (Mixed vegetable soup)

 

 

សម្លកកូរ pronounced as (Samlor kokor) is a typical dish that is popular among Cambodian people. 

It is a healthy soup with many vegetables inside. It is different from other soup that has only few vegetables together. This dish combines of at least 5-6 kind of vegetables. That's why they call it Kokor (mixing things together). I love it very much but it is another complicated dish and recently I cooked twice to eat alone  

Now it is time for lunch, let's enjoy this soup together.

Spice and ingredients to start the soup

Ingredients

• Meat: fish, pork or chicken. I normally prefer fish more than meats but people would add pork to make the soup much more tasty. Fat from the pork help me the vegetables absorb more taste and softer. You can choose to put or not to put pork.
• Spice: Kreoung made from lemon grass leave, kaffir, galangal, turmeric, pepper, garlic; my post about how they make Kreoung is here - Kreoung can be different from one soup to another but the base is lemon grass, turmeric and galangal. 
• Other spice: fermented fish, toasted rice, the main element is toasted rice - makes the soup thicker and smell amazing.
• Vegetables: so many kinds that you can put in, such as Papaya, Pumpkin, Young jackfruit, Egg plant, Baby corn, Long bean​ or string bean
• Green leaves include that of moringa, hummingbird flower and leaves, Albizza lebbek leaves, sweet leaf bush, Ivy gourd leaves and leave and others. You can put one of them or two if you have.

Different kinds of vegetables at once, add green leaves at the end and stop cooking

How to cook

• Watch on how to cook this soup here and here
• There are two ways to cook Kokor soup. First, follow the instruction like the link above and second, just boil the water, put fish, put fermented fish, then vegetables, then toasted rice and finishing up with Kreoung. This one is less complicated and easy making.

Stir fry meat and Kreoung together, put toasted rice and then vegetables.

• I want to introduce another special Kokor soup which is only from my area - specific regions that are not countrywide. It is កកូរកណ្តៀង Kokor Kandieng with below photo of how the process the vegetable. The way to cook is the same, what different is to prepare this vegetable only.

This type of plant is bitter, so to get out the bitter taste, we have to cut it, put in mortar and scratch them, then rinse with water to get ride of bitter taste. Then, just cook like normal vegetable.

@Mukul_BD you were wondering what the soup of the green in my previous post here, this post is to answer your question.

The soup is actually best to eat hot and one time off. Some soups taste great the second time heating but this one rather eat when freshly cook and when it is hot.

 

I would like to tag my friend @Lusianaa @Ant_Bad_Yogi @StephenAbraham and @Giu_DiB  who are food fan in Connect. Please enjoy one of  my favorite soup here in this article.