Samlor machu#Types

{{Short description|Cambodian category of sour soups}}

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| name = Samlor machu

| image = Samlor machu kroeung served at Neary Khmer, 2018-01-02.jpg

| caption = A bowl of samlor machu kroeung.

| alternate_name = samlar machu, salaw machu, somlor machu

| country = Cambodia

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| type = Soup

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| main_ingredient = Tamarind, prahok, vegetables, fruits, herbs

| variations = samlor machu kroeung, samlor machu yuon, samlor machu srae, samlor machu ktis

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| similar_dish = Canh chua{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Jonathan H. X. |last2=Nadeau |first2=Kathleen M. |title=Encyclopedia of Asian American folklore and folklife |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BrfLWdeISoC&pg=PA199 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2011 |page=199 |isbn=978-0-313-35066-5 |quote=Somluar machu is the Khmer version of the Southern Vietnamese hot and sour soup canh chua.}}

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Samlor machu ({{langx|km|សម្លម្ជូរ}} – 'sour soup') is a Khmer term for a category of sour soups.

The sour flavour of the soup comes from the use of tamarind ({{lang|km|អម្ពិល}}), however variations also include other tangy fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes ({{lang|km|ប៉េងប៉ោះ}}), pineapples ({{lang|km|ម្នាស់}}), water spinach ({{lang|km|ត្រកួន}}), leaf celery, as well as Tiliacora triandra leaves ({{lang|km|ស្លឹកវល្លិយាវ}}).{{cite book |last=Choudhary |first=Shiv Shanker Tiwary & P.S. |title=Encyclopaedia Of Southeast Asia And Its Tribes (Set Of 3 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdEjAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2009 |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd |isbn=978-81-261-3837-1 |page=191}}

Meat in this type of soup is usually that of either chicken, fish, pork, beef, lobster or crab. In the U.S. and Canada, instead of using fresh tamarind like in Cambodia, a powdered tamarind soup base mix is also used by the diaspora. One popular brand is manufactured by Knorr.{{cite book |title=The Elephant Walk Cookbook: Cambodian Cuisine from the Nationally Acclaimed Restaurant |author=Longteine De Monteiro |year=1998 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |page=306}}