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Bánh mì (Vietnamese Baguette)

Bread with ham, pâté, pickled carrot and white radish, cucumber and chili!

Khổ Qua Nhồi Thịt- Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup

Behind specific bitter taste there is the sweetness of the meat and water!

Bánh Ít Ram (Hue Style Fried Glutinous Sticky Rice Dumpling)

Top with some minced shrimp, pork, and fragrant scallion oil, dipping into the fish sauce, you have a really tasty and wonderful appetizer dish!

Cơm Hấp Lá Sen (Lotus leaf steamed rice)

The harmonious combination of shrimp, lotus seed, carrots, sausage, and so forth brings an exhilarating sensation to diner!

Áo Dài (Ao Dai Vietnamese Traditional Dress)

The beauty of women dressed in “Ao Dai”always leaves a deep impression on foreign visitors to Vietnam!

Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Family. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Family. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 4, 2015

GRILLED CHICKEN WINGS ( Cánh gà nướng)

PREP
15mins
COOK
60mins
READY
45mins

Ingredients:
  • 2,25kg chicken wings ( maybe less or more depand on how much you want to enjoy
  • 2 spoons of sugar
  • 2 spoon of salt
  • 2 bows of water
  • 1 coffee spoon of seasonings: coriander, salt and garlic
  • 1 coffee spoon of  paprika
  • ½ coffee spoon of black pepper
  • 2 spoon of honey
  • ¼ bow of sesame
 Instructions:
  1. Put sugar and and salt into a little pan,cook with little fire until you get a mixture like caramel (dark brown). Pour some water in, sugar with turn into solid form.Keep the fire on for the sugar to melt completely.
  2. Add in pepper, black pepper and garlic. Heat the honey in the oven some seconds and then pour honey into the sauce, mix well.
  3. Arrange chicken wings in a tray, pour the sauce on it. Grill themat 4000F in 30 minutes.
  4. Then overturn the wings, grill for another 20 minutes. After that, pour 80% sauce in and grill 10 minutes more!
  5. Lay them on a dish, sprinkle the sesame on.Enjoy with white rice!
  6. Skill level: Intermediate
Good luck and have a great time with grilled chicken wings!
Lành Phạm,

Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 4, 2015

BÁNH KHOAI LANG NƯỚNG TỰ CHẾ (Home-made sweet potato cake)


This cake is really simple and easy to find the ingredients. Use your weekend to do it!

Ingredients:
Original recipe makes 5 pieces of cake
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 cup of flour
- 2 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 6 tablespoon butter, cut into pieces

PREP
5mins
COOK
60mins
READY
65mins

Directions:

- Clean the sweet potato, boil until softly cooked. Drain the sweet potato and mash it. Leave it in refrigerator an hour.
- Heat the oven.
- In a big bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter well and smoothly. In another bowl, mix the sweet potato with butter. Then mix 2 bowl together well.



- Pour the dough on a table and knead lightly. If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more flour. Adjust the dough to have 1cm thick. Use a ring to cut the dough into circle pieces. Have the dough onto a tray cover with butter.
- Collect the residual dough, continue knead and cut as above. Spread some butter on top of the cakes and bake in 20-25mins.


If you want, you can mix ½ cup of butter and stir with 2-3 teaspoon syrup, spread on top of the cakes to have more colorful and flavorful. 
Enjoy!


*Taro**

Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 4, 2015

CRAB EGG CHA_ SIMPLE BUT ATTRACTIVE


Ingredients:
  •           300g pounded lean pork
  •          3 eggs
  •          1 egg taken its yolk and albumen. Yolk is used to stretch on the Cha surface, the other is used with the 3 ones above.
  •          1 box of crab
  •         30g vermicelli
  •          20g dried black fungus
  •          1 pounded onion
  •          3 spoons of cooking oil
  •          1 spoon of sesame oil
  •          1 carrot
  •          Seasonings: ½ spoon of salt, ¼ spoon of wednuts, ½ sppon of sugar, ½ spoon of black pepper

Instructions:

  1. Turn the oven 170- 180oC to make it heated. Put union, pounded pork, crab, 3 eggs with the albumen, dried black fungus, vermicelli, oil, sesame oil, and small- cut carotin a bowl.
  2. Add a suitable amount of seasonings in it, then mix well.
  3. Dab  some oil on the tray and put it into the oven, pour the mixture on it.
  4. Grill for about 20 minutes, until the surface gets brown yellow and out of water, take it out and stretch the yolk on it. Grill for another 5 minutes.
  5. Make the cooked food in sticks.
  6. Cut into small square parts, enjoy with hot rice and cucumber, tomato. Or if you like, you can perfect your meal with Cha, grilled pork rib, broken rice. That’s wonderful meal ever!!

Crab egg Cha is simple to make, especially when you do not hane a lot of time to cook a great food for your family. If you want a softer one, you can steam it nearly cooked before grilling. More union and carrot also make it softer for you.


**PREP: 30 mins
**COOK: 30 mins
**YIELD: 4-5 servings
**Skill Level: Intermediate
Lành Phạm,

Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 4, 2015

AROMATICALLY CRISPY WITH FRIED PIG EARS WITH CHILLI AND CITRONELLA


Fried pig ears with chili and citronella will be a wonderful food for your family!!
Ingredients:
-         1 350- gram pig ear
-         6 cloves of citronella
-         Some chili
-         1 union
-         3 cloves of garlic
-         1 small package of five spicy powder
-         Seasonings: sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate
Instructions:

1.       Shave the pig ear, wash, and then boil it. After that, put it in a cold basin of water (better put some cold ice in). This helps the ear crispier. Then take it out and let it cool.



2.     Pound the chili and citronella.


3.      Cut the ear bite size.


4.      Pour 1 spoon of oil into the pan, when it gets hot, put the union, garlic, chili, citronella and five spicy powders in to fry.


5.      When they turn aromatic, put the ear in to fry. Turn down the fire, add a suitable amount of soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar in.


6.      Fry another 3 minutes until the ingredients mix with each other, take out and lay food in a dish.

Enjoy either with rice or in a party. Can come along with vegetables, cucumbers or tomatoes. The pungency of chili, aroma of citronella penetrate into the ear make it more delicious and special to anyone. 



**PREP: 25 mins
**COOK: 15 mins
**YEILD: 4-5 servings
**Skill level: intermediate
Lành Phạm,

GOOD LUCK!!

Thứ Sáu, 3 tháng 4, 2015

CHINESE BRAISED PORK WITH EGGS


Ingredients:
  • -      500g lean pork
  • -      2 unions
  • -      2 spoon of fish sauce
  • -      70g jaggery 

This is an ancient food but usually appear in family’s meals. Great food brings your member together. Often goes with sour pickled porecole.
Instructions:
1.      Choose the meat between pig’s buttocks and filet, cut bite size, marinate with chopped unions.
2.      Boil a bowl of water along with jaggery  and fish sauce. After a few minutes, turn down the fire.
3.      Put meat into the cooker until its ribbon is burned, pour the water above in, continue until pork is soft enough to eat.
4.      Add some eggs in to stew if you like to make your food plentiful.
5.      Put into a deep plate, baste the sauce and enjoy with rice. How great food with tastefy , strong flavor. Together with sour pickled porecole, it becomes wonderful!!
 ** PREP: 30 mins
**COOK: 20 mins
**YIELD: 3-4 servings 
**Skill Level: Difficult 
Lành Phạm,

Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 3, 2015

Crispily fried chicken gizzards (Mề gà xào giòn )


Ingredients:
300g  chicken gizzards
1 bell peppers
50 g baby corns
oyster sauce
cooking wine
3 red chili
 Wedge nuts, pepper, seasonings, garlic
Puree oregano 
    Chicken gizzards fried with bell pepper and baby corns is tasteful, quite tough, enjoy with rice or beer is the same wonderful.
Instructions:
1.      Wash the chicken gizzards with salt, then marinate them with wedge nuts and cooking wine to get rid of their smell and mix with seasonings. Cut them into small bite size morsel.
2.      Cut the baby corns and bell peppers like below.

3.      Heat the pan, fry the garlic. Then put chicken gizzards in to fry, when the gizzards are nearly cooked, put the peppers and corns in too and mix them well. Add oyster sauce, wedge nuts, pepper, oregano in and taste until it’s fixed with your appetile.

4.       Turn up the fire and fry quickly until the gizzards are cooked well. Enjoy with hot rice.. So delicious!!

** PREP: 15 mins
**COOK: 15 mins
** YIELD: 2 servings
** Skill level: intermediate
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Roll noodles ( phở cuốn)


Ingredients:
·        1 kg roll noodle cake
·        400g beef
·        1 onion
·        400g fresh vermicelli
·        100g roasted peanuts
·        10 dry violet onions
·        Vegetables: cilantro, marjoram, bean sprouts, salad and lettuce
·        Seasonings: fish sauce, ginger, chili, vinegar, lemon, sugar, cooking oil, 2 spoon of soup.
Roll noodles is easy to make, simple and bring your family together, that’s suitable for the coming summer.
Instructions:
1.      -Marinate the beef with fish sauce, black pepper, ginger, garlic, then fry them with onion.
-Wash the vegetables.
-Pound the toasted peanuts. Slice the violet onions and fry until they turn brown yellow.
2.    Stretch a roll cake on the dish, lay the salad, lettuce, vermicelli feied with beef, some vegetables, fried unions and some roasted peanuts on. Roll them tightly.

3.. mix the fish sauce with sour, spicy, salty and sweet flavour. ( it’s up to your taste, remember to have a taste regularly to have the best cup of sauce).

** PREP: 15 mins
**YIELD: 5-6 servings
** Skill level: easy.
Lành Phạm,