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Hot & sour fish soup

This is a quick and very low-calorie but very tasty soup. Buy some really fresh fish – we used hake. Hot & Sour Fish Soup – Serves 2

• 2tbsp grated ginger
• 1 dried red chilli (or use a small tsp of chilli flakes)
• 2 scallions, thinly sliced
• 1 stem lemongrass, lightly bashed
• 700ml chicken or fish stock
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 400g skinless white fish fillets, cut into big chunks
• 2 handfuls baby spinach
• 2 tsp fish sauce
• cooked noodles

Put the ginger, chilli, scallions, lemongrass and stock in a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the soy sauce, vinegar and fish, and simmer for a couple of minutes. Stir in the spinach and season with the fish sauce. Adjust the vinegar and soy sauce to your own taste. Put the cooked noodles into soup bowls, discard the lemongrass and dried chilli from the soup, then pour over the noodles and serve. (Original recipe by Lulu Grimes and Janine Ratcliffe in BBC Olive February 2015.)