Archive for the ‘Vietnamese Recipes’ Category

Ingredients: 500g shrimps Fresh chilli 2 Chilli powder 1 teaspoon bamboo skewers, soak wooden skewers in cold water for 1 hour.Remove skewers from the water, pat dry Salt 1 tablespoons MSG 1/4 teaspoon Charcoal for grilling Method: Combine salt, chilli, chilli powder, MSG together in a large container. Add shrimp and stir gently to coat. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat. Thread ... Full story

This is my family 's favourite dish. At weeken, my father usually make this dish when my family seat together. To eat, first take a large mustard leaf ( cai xanh) then place some herbs on, then a piece of fish on, then roll up and dip in ready made fish sauce ( nuoc mam ) below is the recipe.... Full story

Gac is commonly known as trái gấc or quả gấc (trái/quả meaning "fruit") in Vietnamese. It is known variously as Baby Jackfruit, Spiny Bitter Gourd, Sweet Gourd, Momordica Cochinchinensis or Cochinchin Gourd in English .The yellow flesh is creamy like an avocado but a bit bitter. In Vietnam gac has been traditionally used as both food and medicine .... Full story

Braised pork with hard-boiled eggs also known as : thit kho nuoc dua or thit kho tau, thit ko riu, thit kho trung. This dish usually cooked in the Tet holiday (Vietnamese Lunar New Year ) and served with fresh cabbage, bean-sprouts pickles, pickled spring onions and steam rice or sometimes rice-paper. Ingredients: 1kg boneless ... Full story

Ingredients: 4 mangosteens 4 shrimps ( 200 g), boiled, shelled. 100g shredded dried squid 80 g lean pork, boiled, cut into threads shredded coconut onion, thinly sliced, vietnamese herbs, finly chopped sesame, shrimp crackers Salad dressing: 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon fish sauce 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1 dash of salt Dipping sauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons fish sauce 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped garlic and chilli. Method: Using a ... Full story

Mangosteen is a small fruit grown on evergreen trees. They are grown mainly in southeast Asia ( Thailand, Vietnam...). They are purple when ripe and about two inches in diameter.A mangosteen consists of a sweet white flesh resembling garlic cloves, surrounded by a hard, inedible skin . The number of petals on the bottom of the mangosteen indicate how ... Full story

Ingredients: 500 g eel 100 g wheat flour 20 g dried spring onion stalks 300g salad, coriander 20g woodears 100g cooking oil 20g dried garlic 200g shoulder lean pork 1fresh lime ginger 1tsp sugar 1 fresh chilli pepper fish sauce fresh spring onion leaves Method Wash the eel. Place in a pot with 3tsp of the lime juice. Leave for 10 - 15 minutes, then dry. Cut off the head and gut the ... Full story

Ingredients: 100 g rice, rinsed and drained 50 g Green Split Mung beans, skin removed. 400 g pork bones 200 g fresh shrimp, peeled, tail removed. 300 g minced pork 3,5 litres water 50 g onion , halved 100 g mushroom ( straw mushroom,…) 1-2 green onions, chopped small 2-3 chinese onion, peeled , thinly sliced Coriander, finely chopped Cooking ... Full story

Let's Learn to cook vietnamese foods Ingredients 1 pig’s maw about 500gram, clean ,boiled, sliced thinly 300gram shrimp,char-grilled or dry-fried,shelled,leaving tail on each shrimp. 1 carrot,peel, cut into thin trips 1 cucumber, quarter lengthwise,remove seed,sliced diagonally. 1 onion sliced thinly 1 bunch of vietnamese coriander, chpped coarsly 1 tablespoon crispy-fried chinese onion 1 tablespoon roasted peanut, chopped coarsly 1 ... Full story

Serves 4 Ingredients: 4 cups cold cooked rice (preferably 1 day old) 2 tbsp. oil 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped (onion can be used instead of garlic) 2 cups  chopped seafood :  -medium raw shrimp – deveined and shelled cut into bite sized pieces  -crabmeat drain all the water from the can of crab meat  -squid, cut into bite sized pieces… 2-3 eggs, ... Full story