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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!

Thứ Bảy, 26 tháng 9, 2015

STIR FRY CHICKEN WITH VEGETABLE IS NEVER BORED

This stir fry chicken dish with rice is perfect and tasty!
Ingredient:
Original recipe makes 3 servings
-         1 clove of celery
-         1 julienned carrot
-         1 thinly slice red bell pepper
-         1 bowl of broccoli
-         ½ bowl of corn
-         3 pearl onion
-         2 cups of bean sprout
-         2 pieces of chicken breast
-         2 teaspoons of sesame oil
-         2 tablespoons of olive oil
-         ½ small bowl of soy sauce
-         1 teaspoon chili sauce
-         2 teaspoons sesame seed
-         Salt and pepper
-         Baby corn
PREP
15mins
COOK
20 mins
READY
35mins
Direction:
Vegetable


In a large pan, heat the oil, add chicken in and quick stir fry until cooked
In a small bowl, mix soy sauce, chili sauce, salt and pepper in and mix well. Add carrot, celery, bell pepper, broccoli, mushroom and baby corn in the pan, quick stir fry. Pour the sauce on top the vegetable and chicken and mix well until the seasoning absorbed all.
Before turning off the heat, add bean sprout, sprinkle green onion and sesame. Place the dish in a bowl and eat with rice when it’s still hot
Hope you would succeed and bon appetite!


*Taro**

Thứ Bảy, 19 tháng 9, 2015

STIR FRY CHAYOTE CHITS WITH GARLIC

A stir fry dish of chayote chits with garlic, fresh green and crunchy will refresh your family meal.

Ingredients:
Original recipe makes 2 servings
     -         300g chayote chits
     -         5 cloves of garlic
     -         Cooking oil, seasoning powder, salt.
PREP
15mins
COOK
20mins
READY
35mins

Preparation:
Clean and wash chayote chits, peel off the skin, brake into small pieces 4-5cm, drain.
Skin off garlic, mash it before cooking about 15mins
Direction:
Heat the oil in a pan, add 2/3 garlic in and fry, add chayote in and quick stir fry. Add salt, seasoning powder in, stir well, before removing from the heat, add the 1/3 garlic left in and mix well. Turn the heat off and place on a dish. Use hot.

Notice:
Chayote chits is soft easily, so you should stir quickly and add the vegetable in when the pan’s hot, so it’s crunchy and season when it’s almost done.
Enjoy the dish


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Thứ Bảy, 12 tháng 9, 2015

STEAMED EGG WITH TOFU

The hot weather make your family tired of oil fat dishes. Therefore, let try with the steamed egg with tofu!

Tofu is a good food, nutritious but not fat, combines with egg, bacon and crab meat provide enough nutrition will be an ideal suggestion for summer days! Everybody must be excited and attracted by this beautiful dish.
Ingredients:
Original recipe makes 3 servings
     -         250g tofu
     -         10 crab meat bars
     -         100g bacon
     -         Shiitake mushroom
     -         2 egg
     -         Spice: salt, pepper, seasoning powder.

The ingredients for steamed egg and tofu

PREP
15mins
COOK
30mins
READY
45mins
Prepare:
Soak the shiitake mushroom in water until getting bigger, use a scissors to cut into 8 pieces like 8 petals. Beat an egg with a bit of sticky rice flour, then fry thinly, julienne into the length of crab bar. Shred the crab bars into small thin pieces. Julienne the bacon with the length of crab bar.
Crush the tofu, let it in a bowl. Beat an egg into that bowl, add pepper, salt and seasoning powder, mix well.
Direction:
Wrap a plastic into a bowl, put the shiitake mushroom in the middle of the bowl. The outside of mushroom touches the bowl. Put egg, crab bar, bacon between each other around the bowl. 
Put egg, crab bar, bacon between each other around the bowl.
Pour the egg and tofu mixture into the middle, use a spoon to push it down lightly.
Put the bowl into a pot, steam in 20mins until the mixture cooked and thicken. Take the bowl out, put it on a plate and turn up side down, take the bowl and plastic out. Then that’s it, we are finished.


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Thứ Bảy, 5 tháng 9, 2015

SQUID AND LOTUS ROOT SALAD

Squid salad is lightly sweet and sour, crunchy and is a very good appetizer.

Ingredients:
Original recipe makes for 2 serving
     -         500g squid
     -         200 lotus root
     -         1 carrot
     -         2 tablespoons roughly chopped laksa leaf, 2 shredded chili
    -     1 tablespoon vinegar, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoons fish sauce, 1 fry garlic, 1 tablespoon cooking oil, 1 spoon seasoning powder, 1 crushed ginger root, flower trimmed carrot

PREP
15mins
COOK
35mins
READY
30mins

Direction:
-         Clean squids, boil water with crushed ginger, add squid in and boil in 1min, pour out all and rinse with cold water, soak in ice water in 30mins, drain then julienne
-         Wash and clean lotus root, slice thinly, soak in lemon juice water. Drain before mixing in the salad.
-         Shred the carrot, marinate with vinegar, 1 tablespoon sugar, leave it in 30mins, then squeeze to release all the water.
-         Mix fish sauce and sugar
-         Mix squid, lotus root, carrot, laksa leaf, fried garlic, oil, fish sauce, chili, and lemon juice
-         Place the salad on a dish, décor with the trimmed carrot, use with rice cracker.
Bon appetite!



*Taro**

Thứ Bảy, 29 tháng 8, 2015

SEAFOOD SOUP

The direction for this soup is easy, ingredients is popular, and cooking time is fast. Therefore it’s really suitable for a family meal or small parties
Ingredients:
Original recipe makes 2 servings
     -         Tofu
     -         Shiitake mushroom, golden needle mushroom
     -         Egg
     -         Shrimp, squid
     -         Seasoning powder, sugar, pepper, cornstarch
PREP
15mins
COOK
25mins
READY
40mins
Direction:
-         Clean and wash shiitake mushroom and golden needle mushroom, cut into half if needed
-         Julienne tofu
-         Peel skin off shrimp, cut into half longwise
-         Clean and wash squid, cut into thin pieces with 3cm length
-         Place a water pot on heat, boil it up. Add shrimp, squid, tofu then mushroom in. Season with 1 spoon seasoning powder, ½ spoon sugar, mix well. Boil a low heat in a few minutes.
   
-         Add 3 spoon cornstarch into a bowl, mix with a bit of water
-         Turn down the heat, slowly pour the four mixture in then stir in one direction.
-         Finally, beat an egg, mix it up, then slowly pour into the soup pot, pour and stir in one direction as above.
-         Boil it again, season to adjust the taste.
To have a nice looking soup bowl, décor with some cilantro and use hot, very tasty.


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Thứ Bảy, 22 tháng 8, 2015

POTATO OMELET FOR BREAKFAST

A breakfast with egg is quick and nutritious, let me introduce you a fragrant potato omelet dish for your breakfast, or lunch is fine.

 
Ingredients:
Original recipe makes 2 servings
-         1 potato
-         1 garlic, roughly chop
-         1 spoon butter
-         Egg
-         1 spoon roughly chopped cilantro and green onion
-         Salt, pepper

PREP
10mins
COOK
15mins
READY
25mins
Direction:
 
Peel the skin off potato, thinly slice
Then chop it into smaller pieces


Have butter in a hot pan, melt the butter then add garlic, fry until smelling, add potato in, add a pinch of salt. Stir fry potato at medium heat, mix well for the butter to cover all over potato
Stir fry until potato turn to gold and brown
While frying potato, beat the egg into a bowl, add a bit of cream if you like. Beat it really well, add cilantro green onion in, a bit of pepper salt and beat again.
When the potato cooked and golden brown, spread it over the pan, then pour the egg into the potato pan.
 Pour the egg mixture around the pan, then turn the heat on.
Quickly roll the egg over
Roll the side in, then the egg cooked but it’s still soft inside

Have the omelet on a dish and use with rice or bread


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Thứ Bảy, 15 tháng 8, 2015

CƠM GHẸ ĐƠN GIẢN MÀ NGON (DELICIOUS SIMPLE CRAB RICE)

Cơm ghẹ (Crab rice)
Getting bored with dishes from fish, meat, chicken… you can try this simple crab rice but rich of protein and palatable.
Ingredients:
Original recipe make 2 servings
      -         2 cups rice
      -         500gr blue crab
      -         Cucumber, onion, oil, chili, garlic, fish sauce, lemon, carrot, radish.
PREP
10mins
COOK
20mins
READY
30mins
Direction:
-         Clean the crabs, take out the flesh
-         Cook rice, when it’s cooked, dig well
-         Cut the onion into small pieces, fry until smelling with oil.
-         Thinly slice carrot, radish, mix with a pinch of sugar, and deep into vinegar.
-         Thinly slice cucumber

-         The dish would be delicious to serve with sweet and sour sauce: finely chop garlic, chili, mix with a hint of lemon juice, a pinch of sugar, fish sauce, adjust to taste.


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