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- 180^oC 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

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Pork rolls with green mango (Chân giò hun khói cuộn xoài xanh)

Ingredients:

·        Smoked pork rolls 300-400g

·        1 green mango

·        1 carrot

·        Scallions, herbs

·        Maiyonaise

·        Lemon

·        Chili sauce

With some finesse and creation, pork rolls can become great food. The mango is crispy, sour along with the crispy of the rolls make things interesting. Greasy and fragrant maiyonaise with lemon.... so great.!

Instructions:

1.      Slice the salined pork rolls like below:

Tips: you should choose the shork big roll so that when you slice, it’s not shred; and you had better put t in the fridge to make it easier to cut.

2.      Peel the carrot and mango, cut into big fiber. Put the green part of scallion into boiling

water and take out. Pick the herbs and wash them.

3.      Softly roll the pork slices with carrot mango fibers, and herbs into separate rolls. Use the scallion to tie them.

4.       

Pour the maiyonaise sauce into the dish and decorate with some chili sauce. Peel the lemon, chop the bark and put on the sauce. It is tiny thing but make the food more sophisticated and delicious.

**PREP: 30 mins

**COOK: 20 mins

** YIELD: 5-6 servings

** Skill level: intermediate

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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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COCONUT MOUSE- SPECIAL DISHES OF BEN TRE

Pay a visit to Ben Tre to enjoy wonderful coconut mouse food
 Ben Tre is famous for its coconut products; the reputation is all over the world. However, you guys may not have heard about the coconut mouse dishes here, it seems strange, right? We are going to give you some suggestions for these special dishes. Come and have a taste, you cannot forget to give a compliment.

Coconut mouse looks like a vole, but its teeth are much sharper. It gets food from the coconut, all of the nutrients. Therefore, it tastes good and delicious.

1.      Coconut mouse baked by steam rice

   Coconut mouse is processed many ways: grilled, baked, or curried… according to most of the gourmet, the most wonderful dish is coconut mouse baked by steam rice. At the time rice is cooked, the mouse is also cooked and starts to give an irresistible aroma. The meat is white and has a special flavor. Mangle the mouse and blend with laksa leaves, some black pepper, salt with chili and lemon, even much more delicious than chicken. That’s a wonderful thing to have a taste of this food.

2.      Deep fried coconut mouse

    No gourmet in Ben Tre does not know about this greasy food. In Ben Tre, especially at the end ò the year, there are a lot of coconut mice. Because they take a lot of coconut for eating, the mouse itself contains a lot of nutrients. The first reason people kill the mice are to prevent them from devastating the crops. Gradually, they realize that this is a good source of succulent food. The process to get this food is quite simple: Firstly, wash the mice carefully to give out its smell. Then, marinate the with some chili, garlic, five spice powder, fish sauce, sugar, Monosodium Glutamate in 15 minutes. Next, fry them on a pan, after a while, pour the coconut water in, turn down the fire, and turn over some times until they get brown yellow.

3.      Grilled coconut mouse

 Marinate the mouse meat with finely chopped chili, onions, garlic, citronella; Monosodium Glutamate, salt, black pepper, sugar and five spice powders in some hours to have permeable mouse meat. Then bask them in the sun shine before you grill. It’s better to use coal fire, the meat can be put on a furnace bar or tongs. Until the meat is dried, its color turn brown yellow, you can enjoy. Use with chili fish sauce, pepper salt or soy, the same of appetite. The residents here like to enjoy this dish with coconut flavor rice or sticky rice, that’s wonderful.

4.      Stewed coconut mouse

Besides, another succulent food from coconut mouse is stewed coconut mouse. After frying the marinated meat mouse, stew with some coconut milk so that the sweetness is even. When the water is penetrated into the meat, pour another amount of coconut milk, repeat this 2 to 3 times before you turn off the fire. Then sprinkle some roasted peanuts. Enjoy with salads, herbs, pepper lemon salt. Do not hesitate to visit Ben Tre to have a taste of these wonderful foods.
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ZUCCHINI SOUP WITH CLAMS ( Ngao nấu canh bầu)

** Mixture of clams and zucchini makes a wonderful and healthy food. The clams are used for soup with spinach, water spinach, especially zucchini soup is very delicious. Zucchini itself is used to cure some diseases, make us cool and relax.

**Ingredients:

-       1kg clams

-       500g zucchini

-       Wedge nuts

-       Scallions

-       Cilantro

-       Black pepper

-       Fish sauce

-       Chili

**Instructions:

1.    peel the zucchini, cut into small parts that is enough to eat.

2.    Boil the clams, remove its shells, take the meats in them and marinate in about 5-10 minutes with finely chopped scallions, some salt, black pepper. Then fry it on the stove.

3.    Pour some more water in the water you used to boil the clams, boil it again, then put the zucchini in, add some salt and wedge nuts. Then put all the fried clams in the cooker. Remember not to boil the zucchini overcooked.

4.    Ladle the soup into a bowl, put some more scallions, cilantro and black pepper, which make the food much more delicious and eyecatching. This soup is used with fish sauce with some chili in it.
** Preparing time: 20 minutes
** Cooking time:  20 minutes
** People enjoy: 5-6 people
** Level: Easy

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CANH TRỨNG CÀ CHUA (TOMATO SOUP WITH EGG)

Tomato soup with egg is a good choice whan the summer is approaching. The tomato makes you cool and very healthy because it contain a large nutrient content.

Ingredients:

-          100g Pork tenderloin

-          1 tomato

-          10g  shiitake

-          An egg

-          ¼ spoon of salt

-          ¼ spoon of sugar

-          1/8 spoon of black pepper

-          2 spoons ofstarch ( made by a sppon of water mixed with a spoon of tapioca starch)

-          ¼ spoon of sesame oil

-          30g scallions and cilantro

Instructions:

1.      Cut the pork into the small thin long parts, marinate  with salt, black pepper, sesame oil and a spoon of starch in about 15 minutes

2.      Cut the tomato into small parts like below

3.      Heat the cooker with a little oil, put the shiitake and tomato in and stir until it’s soft, then add some salt and sugar in.

4.      Pour the amount of water you  need, till it boils, put the pork in. When the water boils again, turn down the fire and put the rest of the starch in.

5.      When it boils, put the egg in, use chopsticks dolly, put some oil, pepper, scallions and cilantro and turn off the stove. Enjoy hot with rice.

** Preparing time: 30 minutes
** Cooking time: 20 minutes
** Number of people enjoy: 5-6
** Level: Medium

                                                                                                     Susan,

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