FRIED PUMPKIN ( Bánh bí đỏ chiên)

PREP 10mins

COOK 20mins

YIELD 4-6 servings

With some simple steps and ingredients, we can have a good snack.

Ingredients:

• 500g pumpkin
• 1 spoon of salt
• 100g wheat
• Chilli ( optional)

Instructions:

1. Peel the pumpkin, wash and cut into long fiber.
   
2. Put it in a big bowl with ½ spoon of water, mix well.
   
   
3. When the pumpkin make the water red yellow, get rid of that water.
   
4. Add sugar and wheat in, then mix them well, if necessary, pour some water in.
   
   
   
5. Heat cooking oil in a pan.
   
6. Use spoon to take the mixture and put in the pan, stretch well.
   
7. Sometimes flip it so that it can be cooked evenly both sides. Then take it out and put on waterproof lining paper. Enjoy with soy sauce. Take some chilli ì you want some spicy taste.
   

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ROASTED SALTED DUCK TONGUE ( Lưỡi vịt rang muối )

PREP 15mins

COOK 20mins

YIELD 2-4 servings

Roasted salted duck tongue is easy to make and the flavor is good. Better enjoy with black pepper lemon salt or chilli sauce. Have a great food!

Ingredients:

• 300g  cleaned duck tongue
• 1 pounded onion
• 1 cut-into-fiber ginger
• Some chilli powder
• 2 star anise
• Some clove
• Some cardamom
• Some cinnamon
• Some cooking oil
• Sugar
• Fish sauce
• Soy sauce

Instructions:

1. Roast star anise, clove, cinnamon, cardamom in  a pan. Then put them all in a cloth package, tight it. Put the package in a boiling water cooker for 10 minutes, add fish sauce, salt, sugar and soy sauce in.
2. Put the tongue in to boil for 15 minutes, take it out, let it dry.
3. Fry the onions, roast the tongue for 2 minutes. Have a taste and put salt, ginger á you may want. Lay them on the dish with black pepper lemon salt or chilli sauce.
   
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SEAFOOD SALAD ( Salad Hải sản)

PREP 5mins

COOK 10mins

YIELD 3-4 servings

The presence of seafood will help make your salad much less dull. Brittle vegetables make it more interesting to you!

Ingredients:

• 200g shrimp
• 150g cuttle
• 100g scallops
• 1 salad
• 30g purple cabbage
• 1 onion
• 1 red onion
• ½ coffee spoon of fish sauce
• 1 spoon of mayonaise sauce
• Crispy pancake

Instructions:

1. Boil the shrimps, get rid of their heads, shells and black fibers on the backs. Clean the cuttle, cut like a hammock, boil. Wash the scallops and boil them.
2. Pick the salad, remove the damaged leaves and wash them. Cut purple cabbage into fibers. Cut both onions like in the picture below.
   
   
   
   
3. Mix well all the seafood, salad, onions and mayonnaise
4. Lay out them all in a basket made from crispy pancake. Enjoy right after that!

Tips:

Wash the salad in the way  water flowing. You can decrease the smell of onions by mashing them in vinegar before use.

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SALAD BLENED WITH VEGETABLES ( Xà lách trộn rau củ)

**Let salad blended with vegetables make your meal various.

Ingredients:

• Some salads
• Some herbs that you like
• 1 carrot
• 1 small tomato
• 1 onion
• 1 cassava tuber
• 1 potato
• 200g corn seeds 
• 2 eggs
• Mayonnaise
• 4 sausages
• 100g canned cucumbers

   Instructions:

1. Boil the materials: carrot, potato, corn, eggs and onion.
2. Cut cube all of them. ( Cut the glair cube, put the yolks apart)
3. Mix all the things well, put Mayonnaise, then put the yolks in too, mix softly.
4. Lay out in a dish then enjoy.
   
   

   PREP 15mins

   COOK 20mins

   YIELD 2-4 servings

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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!

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BÁNH DONUT ĐƯỜNG (SUGAR DONUT)

Time: ~1 hour

Level: sophisticated

It is great when you eat this hot dish in the rainy afternoon

Ingredients:

-         Wheat flour: 200 gram

-         Sugar: 40 gram

-         Salt: ¼ teaspoon

-         Powdered milk: 25 gram

-         Instant ferment: 1 teaspoon

-         Melted butter: 40 gram

-         Egg: 1

-         Warm water: 55 ml

-         Oil

Directions:

Step 1:

-         Mix wheat flour, sugar, powdered milk, salt, and instant ferment.

-         Blend melted butter with egg and warm water.

Step 2:

-         Pour the liquid mix into powder mixture, mix up and knead the dough until smooth.

-         Roll the mixed flour into balls, cover with a warm handkerchief, keep it out of the wind so that they can rise double (~1 hour or over, depends on temperature).

Step 3:

-         Smash the dough to release the gas inside, lightly knead the dough.

-         Laminate the dough into 1cm thick, use cutter to cut into small pieces as you want.

-         Let the small pieces dough on a tray covered with wax paper or oil. Annealed the dough to have it rise to double size (more than 45mins)

Step 4:

-         Heat a pan of oil at low heat.

-         Wait for the oil to hot. Lightly drop in the dough. Flip the donuts over to have both fry until gold.

Step 5:

-         The donuts are cooked, get them out and drain from oil.

-         If you want to have an original donut, cover it with sugar when it’s still hot.

-         You can decorate the donuts with melted chocolate, color candy, almond, peanut, sugar powder as your wish.

-         If you want to have a stuffed donut shape the dough into circle, after frying, squeeze the cream or jam into the donuts.

Step 6:     Enjoy it!!!

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TARO STICKY RICE ( XÔI NẾP KHOAI MÔN)

 Time: under 1 hour

Simple

 Cost: 20000vnđ

1.Ingredients:

·         Sticky rice: 300g

·         Taro: 200g

·         magenta plant

·         Baby coconut

·         roasted peanuts

·         white sesame, salt, sugar

Just with the rice cooker, you can also make a great food. The rice is sticky, taro is sweat and soft. Some fibers of coconut help to make yours more tasteful

 Wash the rice, make it drained. Cut the taro into small parts( see the picture). Put the magenta plant cook with 0.7 liter of water and wait to take its violet. Boil the taro with ½ of the water.

 Put the rice into the cooker with the rest of water, add some salt and boil. When the water boils, pour it out, then take the rice and taro to put into the rice cooker to cook.

Scraping the baby coconut into thin fibers. Pounding the roasted peanuts into tiny nuts; roast the sesame, mix with peanuts. Sprinkle them on the sticky rice, enjoy with the mixture above. Prefer when hot.

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The Brand-new dishes cause attention among young people in the early this year

  At the beginning of 2015, some strange snack dishes attract young-age people at the first look.

1    1.      Liquid Mochi cake

Looking like a giant water drop, this kind of mochi cake got a lot of young-ages’ attention at the first sight, this is a good-looking as well as delicious sweet dish. To enjoy the dish completely, you should eat within 30 minutes from the first serve. Some places have this dish that you can find in Sai Gon: Watcha Coffee – 28/1 Ton That Tung, District 1, Curry Shika – ¼ Nguyen Van Trang, District 1, Cornology – 233 Tran Binh Trong.

Liquid Mochi – A special tumult sweet dish from Japan

2    2.      Jelly Kiss – an eatable glass of frappe 

With a “sexy” name, Jelly Kiss – a glass of frappe made from jelly, you can drink the frappe and eat the glass also. Because Jelly Kiss is hand-made, it is limited, hence, there are about 90-100 glasses a day but it’s still not reach the demand of the diners. The only place to enjoy this strange and good beverage is Sai Gon Juice: 343/66 To Hien Thanh, District 10.

Eatable glass of frappe with a sexy name “Jelly Kiss”

3    3.      Cheese Jelly

As a sweet dish from jelly, cheese jelly is interesting the teenagers with the greasy and flavorful cheeses inside the clear nice looking jelly. A pretty full order of cheese jelly is just 20,000 dong so it attracts many students. Address that you can have this sweet dish is Tra Chanh Com Tron Maika – 35B Nguyen Kim, District 5. Besides, you can enjoy a lot more “super-hot” snacks: mixed rice, peach tea, Thai seafood vermicelli,… with affordable price there.  

Cheese Jelly- an attracted sweet dish at the first sight

4    4.      Mustard ice cream

The spicy contrasts with the sweet of ice cream, this causes many young people finish this ice cream half way and will never order it once again. However, if you can pass the first ice cream, feel the mystery hot hided in the cold of ice cream running straight to your nose, then melting on your tongue, you will recognize this spicy quite exciting and want to eat more. The place you can have this spicy ice cream is: Yamamoto Matcha Cafe – 84 Tran Hung Dao, District 1.  

 Mustard ice cream – the ice cream with the weird spicy flavor got many contrasted comment from young people

5.      Cotton ice cream

As a strange kind of ice cream, with the utmost new combination between the fresh modern ice-cream and cotton candy in the past, you just slightly bite and the candy’s layer will melt on your tongue. What a memorable delicious ice cream that remind us about our childhood. Address you can have this ice cream: Start up Coffee – 38 Tran Hung Dao. You can also enjoy super delicious bee net ice cream there.

Cotton ice cream –Modern ice cream reminds about the childhood

6    6.      Macaroon “exhaling smoke”

As well as colorful macaroons, but with a special technology, you can enjoy a super cold cake that there is vapor when you are talking, this cake is exclusive and available at only Italian restaurant Jcat – 345 Nguyen Trai – an European restaurant with the price only from 30,000-80,000.

Smoking Cake – freezing Macaron

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