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Tofu Soup

It has been more than a week since my last Best Vietnamese Food was published here on this site. I have been preoccupied with blogging about politics with the General Election looming and over the last couple of days; we experienced water supply disruption at our place. Hence, we ate out instead or bought some take away. Incidentally, I went to Palace restaurant for lunch this afternoon and the bowl of miso soup which I had reminded me of the one I cooked about 2 weeks ago which I have yet to post here.


Tofu Soup is a popular and common soup served in Vietnamese restaurants and I believe, probably in Vietnamese pagoda and home as well. Prior to mustering enough courage to cooking this Best Vietnamese Food at home, I have always thought that it would be a difficult soup to cook. Not anymore take a deep breath and listen to me. If you can cook instant noodles, I guarantee 100% that you can able to cook this soup. All you need to do is just to buy soya sauce, dehydrated seaweed and silken tofu and you can whip up this tasty soup in a jiffy.


There are hundreds of different types of miso due to miso being made with different combinations of grains and beans, or soybeans only, and different lengths of fermentation time. However, the taste and delicious of this dish depends mostly on soya sauce. So I think the best way to cook this Best Vietnamese Food is searching and finding the soya sauce in some popular restaurant that is well known in making soya sauce. In my opinion, the taste of tofu soup of Palace restaurant is really wonderful due to I may fall in love with the soya sauce there.


So come and enjoy this Best Vietnamese Food for one day visiting Vietnam. Hope you have a happy trip with your beloved family and friends in my beautiful country.

Chicken Rice cooked using Rice Cooker

The rice cooker is very useful kitchen equipment and is present in many Asian households. There are many Best Vietnamese Food are made by it. Whilst it is primarily designed to cook rice, newer versions of the rice cooker have enable cooks to use it for steaming and even boiling soup. It is called Chicken Rice cooked using Rice Cooker (Cơm Gà).



Recently, my mum cooked Chicken Rice using the rice cooker. This Best Vietnamese Food is actually another version of the popular Clay pot Chicken Rice. The beauty of using the rice cooker is that the rice does not get burnt at the bottom unlike the clay pot. However, for those who are fond of burnt bits of rice, you may have to try this using the clay pot instead.


Soak rice in water for about 1 1/2 hours. Marinade chicken for the same length of time.

Heat oil in wok and then fry shallots till golden brown. Remove fried shallots.

With remaining oil in wok and at high heat, add pre-soaked Chinese dried mushrooms and ginger and stir fry for about 1 minute. Add marinated chicken and stir fry for another minute.

Add pre-soaked rice and seasoning and continue frying for about 2 minutes. Sprinkle a little bit of warm water to keep the rice from drying out.

Remove rice with ingredients into the rice cooker. Place the Lap Cheongs over the rice. Pour watergently over the rice to cover the rice just like how you would usually cook white rice in a rice cooker. Add plain water if the water used to soak dried Chinese mushrooms is insufficient. Turn on your rice cooker and let it cook. Now you can serve this hot Best Vietnamese Food and sprinkle fried shallots over the rice prior to serving.


To sum up, if you have time, try to cook this Best Vietnamese Food at home. And i bet you will not regret about this decision. Have a great trip with your family and friends in my beautiful country.

Vietnamese Steamed Rice Cakes with Shrimp and Pork Rinds – Banh Beo


his is a super simple recipe and very delicious however, it is very time consuming so I would definitely make this a weekend dish so you can take the time to do it right. Banh beo is a dish that comes from Hue the region of my decent and so it makes sense that it was something that I ate a lot as a child. Everything I make this recipe it takes me back to when I would eat with my mother and sister (before she because a vegetarian of course). I bet she would love to give the vegetarian version a try the next time she comes to visit.


Ingredients for Batter:
1 lb of banh beo rice flour
2 Tbsp tapioca flour
1 Tbsp salt

Ingredients for Topping:
½ lb raw medium shrimp (peeled and deveined) – You can also use dried shrimp if you can find it
Pork rinds (crushed) – you can also use pork fat and chop and fry yourself
2-3 scallions (green onions)
Cooking oil

Ingredients for Dipping Sauce:
¼ cup nuoc mam (Vietnamese fish sauce)
¼ cup sugar
Lime juice (to taste)
Hot sauce or hot peppers (finely chopped, to taste – optional)

Vegetarian Suggestion:
You can use egg yolk in this recipe as well as mock shrimp for the topping.

Garnish Suggestion:
Fresh chopped green onions (scallions)
Fried shallots

Cookware Needed:
Banh Beo chambered steamer (if you can find it, if you can’t then you can use the below)
Steamer
Small shallow saucers (similar to the dishes that are used for soy sauce when eating sushi)
Large mixing bowl
Frying pan
Chef’s Knife
Paring Knife
Medium Pot

Directions:
Prepare the banh beo mixture first, following the directions on the package. This will give the mixture time to rest for say 20-30 minutes before cooking.

Poach the shrimp briefly in boiling water until just done. Drain and pat dry the shrimp. If you use a knife crush the shrimp with the side of the knife. Take the crushed shrimp and fry in a non-stick pan (no oil needed). Take the shrimp and finely chop them with your knife. If you have a mortar and pestle you can crush the shrimp that way. Set aside in a covered bowl or in a plastic container.

Chop the scallions into 1/8 inch pieces on a diagonal. Set aside in a bowl. If you are make the pork fat part of the topping from scratch, chop finely fry and then chop again if needed (should be the consistency of light bread crumbs.

Once the topping is prepared, you can focus back on the rice cakes. Coat your steaming dish lightly with oil. Pour about 2 Tbps into each section/container and place into your steamer. Allow to steam for 2-4 minutes until the cake becomes completely clear and firm. Remove from the heat quickly.

Remove the rice cake from the dish and place on a plate and top with the shrimp, pork, and scallions. Pour the nuon cham on the banh beo and enjoy!

Freeing Hint:
This is a recipe that I would not recommend freezing or really refrigerating. I would just make whenever you would like to eat them. You can always freeze the shrimp and keep a few bags of pork rinds around if you want to make it on the fly. If you do refrigerate the banh beo, just heat up in the microwave in 10-15 second intervals until they are soft and warm. Like the banh bot loc and other recipes made with tapioca flour, they tend to harden when cooled in the fridge.

Restaurant Tips:
This is not the easiest dish to find in Vietnamese Restaurants, which is why I’m glad that I have a recipe to make it whenever I want. However, when I’m feeling lazy I can always go to the local Vietnamese deli or market and find it pretty easily.

Vietnamese Cold Spring Rolls



1 package clear edible rice paper sheet
1/2 lb cooked chicken
1/2 lb cooked small shrimp (, peeled, deveined, halved)
1 bunch fresh cilantro leaves
1 bunch fresh mint leaves
1 head leafy lettuce, washed and separated into leaves
1 cucumber, peeled and cut into very,very thin strips
1 cup fresh bean sprout, optional
1 package vermicelli rice noodles, prepared according to package directions
hoisin sauce, to taste
chopped peanuts
nuoc nam, vietnamese spicy fish sauce

Directions:

1 Have all meats precooked and cold and the rice noodles prepared already (the noodles should be white, long and at room temp).
2 Make sure all veggies and herbs are cleaned, dried, and set out before you start.
3 Dip a sheet of rice paper wrapper into water very quickly, no longer than a second or two (or they will get too soggy) and lay flat on a work surface.
4 On one edge, lay a small handful of noodles, a few strips of meat, some shrimp, some cilantro and mint leaves, a lettuce leaf, some cucumber strips and bean sprouts, all to taste but don't overstuff.
5 Carefully start to roll up eggroll style, tucking in the sides, then continue to roll up-but not too tightly or the spring roll will split.
These rolls will be thicker than the typical Chinese-style fried eggrolls.
Combine a few spoonfulls of hoisin sauce with some chopped peanuts to use as a dipping sauce (or serve with prepared spicy fish sauce dip called Nuoc Mam, available at Asian markets).
8 Serve immediately- these do not keep and will harden up in the fridge, so it is best to make just as many as you plan to serve (store any extra unassembled fillings in fridge and roll later).
Note: Please be sure to get the correct spring roll rice papers- these are not the same as wonton/eggroll wrappers, which must be cooked.
10 Look for edible rice paper wrappers, rice noodle vermicelli, and hoisin sauce in Asian markets.

Silk rolls, spring rolls, then and now


Silk rolls and spring rolls are very unique two pure Vietnamese food in Vietnam, a long life in the North, a What appears after in the South.

Rolls are a staple dish tightly pack boiled, including rolls of silk or lean pork, pork fat, sausage players, made of pork (pig), or rolls made from beef, the latter have more vegetarian sausage.

Fried is fried dishes, grilled, steamed chopped Tun g pieces or crushed, ground meat, shrimp, fish, vegetables ... many, many, very rich in 50 kinds of rolls. Similar materials rolls silk, but baked instead of boiled cinnamon called as spring ball. Spring must have greasy, dry, also, the dish is cooked or boiled or oily mixed sliced ​​vegetables, a stir-fry.

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Drafts

Dish tightly wrapped sausage, boiled or steamed pork. called Father is not true as well as spring rolls of Electrical South is inhabited m Electrical North called spring rolls. Nem is a dish fermented sour, spring can not be boiled. Perhaps that rolls like a paper m Electrical North circular tube, the so-called paper? & smooth like silk spring rolls not boiled, should be mistake, call familiar, no wonder editing. Even names like Suong Nguyet Anh wrote the wrong light.



The Cau Tre food artisans are wrapping rolls of silk

Drafts typical dish is the essence of Vietnamese cuisine demonstrates taken root naturally delicious and healthy. Yet technical kh box picky, but very subtle. Just wrong is a bit shoddy really.example fresh meat, rolls of inferior quality, even not do rolls; meat as fresh, so fresh that the meat was still moving; while pounding, stabbing fast, time decay meat, pork is not tasty. Lack of fat, packaging do not adhesive rolls, smooth ... Without delicious sauce, rolls not bold delicious ... No banana leaf, natural flavor of the rolls decreases .

In fact v at t at k perfect t k that : " G IO selection loin foul. Get good plastic fingers that turn. Do not buy old loin, tenderloin young. As young pig packaging, packaging, white, good, thin packaging. Bring on type white salt packaging. Boiled banana backward, wash away. SAP is available. Let tenderloin, obsessed over. Hit small fast. The hours, three same weight (1/10 ounce: 39gr) fat, mixed with hit. Check sauce for just that tightly bundle for that cook for ch i n.Adapted cook it like boiled eggs ch i n, it ch i n. Will take the press, that guideline(lance leaf packets for water) for the drive " .

Silk or lean pork sausage usually do during the holiday, anniversary, one day t ET, people can share (type e ) pig (pork), most is season cold, stale rolls can , eaten during the festival days.

When business brought silk rolls on, hardly fresh meat and produce many very good hard rolls, people use storage additives such as borax, rolls are not damaged, crushed, tougher, so safety issues Food becomes more complex. Due to the business, so many parts more fat or packaging.

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Spring rolls are the m Electrical North , as my hometown called c huh Saigon, where exchanges with Chinese cuisine, Western Cham and Khmer.

Spring rolls are the typical dishes diverse culinary exchange, was born when no one will know for sure. If based on the birth of Saigon, the earliest in the French colonial period.



Rolls

Not only Vietnamese spring rolls but also Cantonese spring rolls, Philippines, Thailand, Songc rolls was CNN in 2011 was voted one of the world's 50 most delicious dishes and is one of the 12 Vietnamese delicacies record vote.

Pure Vietnamese spring rolls must have at least the following elements English:

rice cake rolling the with Chinese wonton cake.

Must be tasting sauce and sauce, mainly fish sauce mixed Sa i gon.

Include many substances, including shrimp and crab meat and vegetable fillers are not too many.

In addition to the characteristics of Vietnamese cuisine took root naturally delicious and healthy, very little oil and many vegetables, not only in material but also by way of processing and food to match.

The uniqueness of Vietnamese spring rolls can be a complete meal, served with Vietnamese noodles, raw vegetables including basil and pickles are good remedies.

From raw materials to processing techniques are critical to ensure the quality of the original request for naturally delicious and healthy.

Recipes like delicious addition to the selection of quality materials th ì to his first roll is not too thick nor too thin to cha fragile. To gi on to lemon vinegar applied to the cake or lemon juice or vinegar to oil. Fried Or when you eat the new fry again both hot gi on. fillers water as radishes, mushrooms should not be used because the This water contains will lose nothing wrong if to cool.

Human padded spring rolls should be about 30%, the rest are eggs, pork, shrimp; if, each 50%; if pork, shrimp, crab, so each 1/3.

Fillers include sorghum, wood ears, mushrooms, onions and spices ...

Currently spring rolls with many variations, in addition to cheap spring rolls, chicken spring rolls, spring rolls seafood such as squid, spring rolls, nuts, vegetarian spring rolls ...

The dishes silk rolls, spring rolls, traditional as easy quality, delicious fresh not only easy, less fillers, less phase, without preservatives or additives for long, smooth.

Going into business, food safety issues become more complex r a t important, so only reputable brands to ensure good hygiene and food safety as well as delicious .

Most dishes standardization issues traditional is pure Vietnamese ensure the hygiene and food safety, is imperative to do, to help develop new Vietnamese cuisine to the world.

The question for culinary professionals, food technologists perform qu y how, what measures to ensure that the product g io silk and c huh rolls have delicious and healthy, especially farming is not, at present r A t and the use of hazardous chemical substances, stimulating, very toxic additives.

I know the foreign food processing companies like Starbucks has a whole suite of quality management, food safety and effective scale. In Vietnam, there are now companies that have organized quality management and food safety stars for two traditional dishes in the upcoming Lunar New Year?

The exchange will answer these questions ourselves as well as those who ate two traditional dishes in the upcoming Lunar New Year is known, will be the scientific evaluation of existing products in the market today .
It is the honest answer my questions will help us peace of mind and help boost q uang three Vietnamese cuisine t of world as Vietnamese Kitchen scheme that I is leader each interest area ultra boosting.

“Giò” – Vietnamese dainty morsel in Spring


On thTet traditional tray of food according to Vietnamese culture, with traditional dishes such as Chung cake, chicken meat, spring rolls and so on, “giò” is one of the dainty morsels. Today, when “giò” almost become daily food and there are more various and attractive dishes on the tray, delicious dish of “giò” cannot be missed...
Fried pie
There are many types of “giò” such as: giò lụa (pork-pie), giò bò (beep dumpling), giò bì (pork and skin paste), giò mỡ (lean and fat pork paste), giò xào (fried pie), etc. Each type has a particular taste but the most important thing to make “giò” dish really attractive is that the fragrance of banana leaves and fish sauce combined in the piece of “giò”.
Giò xào (fried pie)
In all kinds of “giò”, fried pie is the easiest one to prepare, so families often make it themselves when Tet is coming. The main materials are parts of pork such as: ear, nose tongue, pork cheeks and “mộc nhĩ” (cat’s ear). The materials must be subjected to premilitary treatment, boiled through hot water, sliced, mixed with spices, pepper and fried.
After wrapping the fried pie, keep it in the refrigerator so that all the materials link together. The pie that is delicious must be wrapped carefully, raw materials must not be too dry and the dish will stir fragrance of the spices.
Giò bò (beep dumpling)
Beep dumpling

Also processed as fried pie, beep dumpling is often added for more fat so that it is not too dry. When cutting a piece of beep dumpling, it is slightly pink as the color of the beef. Especially, pungency and fragrance of pepper feature the typical characteristic of beep dumpling.
Giò lụa (pork-pie)
Pork is chosen to make pork-pie must be lean, delicious and fresh meat. It is continuously ground until the meat is fine. These days, the meat is ground by machine, which makes the process more quickly and helps to save the maker’s strength.
However, the pork-pie is make in the traditional way remains the delicious flavor that is different from the one ground by 
Pork-pie
machine, since the makers must use more strength so they take proper care of their product. Fish sauce for making pork-pie must also be tasty and fragrant. When being cut, the pie must has the color of ivory-white and the surface has some small holes, surely that the pie is so delicious!
Giò bì (pork and skin paste)
Pork and skin paste is a local specialty of Pho Xuoi (Hung Yen Province). It is also made from uncooked pork-pie and pork skin that are sliced, then wrapped into small ones like fingers. Pork and skin paste is delicious, it means that pieces of pork skin must be white, clean, boiled, cut into small ones and mixed with uncooked pork-pie. The piece of pork and skin paste is so crispy and crunchy.
In Vietnam, once try to taste these kinds of “giò”, it is certaintly that you cannot forget the tasty flavor and fragrance of the dainty morsels...

Vietnamse Phở

Phở is served as a bowl of white rice noodles in clear beef broth, with thin cuts of beef (steak, fatty flank, lean flank, brisket). Variations featuring tendon, tripe, meatballs, chicken leg, chicken breast, or other chicken organs (heart, liver, tongue,[citation needed] etc.) are also available. 'With the lot' (made with chicken broth and all or most of the shop's chicken and cattle offering, including chicken hearts and livers and beef tripe and tendons) is known as 'Phở đặc biệt' (unique phở). There are also various vegetarian varieties of phở.

Vietnamse Phở
Vietnamse Phở
Vietnamse Phở
Vietnamse Phở

Broth
The broth is generally made by simmering beef (and sometimes chicken) bones, oxtails, flank steak, charred onion, and spices, taking several hours to prepare. Seasonings include Saigon cinnamon, star anise, charred ginger, cloves, and sometimes black cardamom pods.[2]

Noodles
The noodles, called bánh phở in Vietnamese, are traditionally cut from wide sheets of fresh rice noodles similar to Chinese Shahe fen, although dried noodles (also called "rice sticks") may also be used. Fresh noodles have a chewy, al dente texture, though they are more expensive and highly perishable. Dried pho is much softer and more affordable.

Garnishes
The dish is garnished with ingredients such as green onions, white onions, coriander leaves (cilantro), ngò gai (culantro, or long coriander), Thai basil, fresh Thai chili peppers, lemon or lime wedges, and bean sprouts. These items are usually provided on a separate plate, which allows customers to add to their soup to taste. Some sauces such as hoisin sauce, Chinese black vinegar,[citation needed] fish sauce, and the Thai hot sauce Sriracha, are popular additions as well, along with sugar. The herb ngò ôm (Limnophila aromatica) is sometimes added as well.

For the phở connoisseur, other garnishes which may be ordered on the side include hành trần (the white "bulb" portion of scallions, blanched in boiling broth) and hành giấm (sliced white onions with a dash of vinegar). These are only brought to the table when specifically requested, as opposed to the general platter of greens and lime wedges. The diner typically squeezes a few drops of lime juice onto the vinegared onion slices before eating them. The hành trần and hành giấm, when eaten with the beef slices, are believed to cut the fattiness and balance the strong beef aroma that some find overpowering.

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