Meatball Soup with Pumpkin
Author: Christina
Recipe type: Soup
Meatball Soup with Pumpkin is a Cambodian food recipe flavored with pork, pumpkin and fish sauce.
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb ground pork
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1⁄2 tbsp sugar
- 1⁄4 tsp black pepper
- 1 stalk green onion, chopped
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups pumpkin/squash cubes
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1⁄2 tbsp sugar
- 2 stalks spring onions, chopped
- dash of black pepper
Instructions
- To prepare meatballs, mix ground pork with fish sauce, salt, sugar, black pepper, and green onion. Roll with moistened hands into tiny balls. Set aside.
- To prepare soup, bring water to a boil in a saucepan. Drop pork meatballs into boiling water.
- When meatballs are done, add pumpkin cubes.
- Simmer until done, about 15–20 minutes.
- Season with fish sauce and sugar.
- Sprinkle with spring onion and black pepper.
- Serve hot with rice.
