Category: recipes

banh xeo

Ingredients:

Mix in bowl to form a paste (first 3 ingredients first, once combined, you can add the rest):

  • 2C rice flour,
  • 1/2 C yellow corn meal,
  • 1 can coconut milk,
  • 3Tsp of green onions,
  • 1/2 tsp salt, sugar,
  • 1-2tsp turmeric,
  • Tsp oil,
  • 3C warm water

Ingredients for filling:

Shrimp, side pork belly, onions, jicama, mushroom, bean sprouts

Instructions

Heat oil in nonstick wok or skillet, fry pork belly and shrimp, add mushroom, onions, on high heat pour ~1/2 C flour mixture thinly around skillet rim first then swirl around to fill surface, in 1-2 min adjust heat to medium then place jicama and bean sprouts in center, cover with lid with a minute, uncover & check crust around the edge for crispiness sprinkle bit of oil to lift edge, then carefully dish out with like a calzone!

thịt bò xào chấm muối tiêu chanh

This is an easy, lazy and quickly meal of some hungry ,rush rush people who like to eat as well .

Ingredients

  • Prepare a 5-6 oz of meat, steak , tri tips, sirloin whatever you prefer, slice thinly across the grain,
  • salt and pepper
  • Onions slice vertical not too thin ,
  • garlic chopped or minced
  • a few shakes of Maggi if you have it

Instructions

  • add 1 Tbsp of oil of your desire,better use the cast iron skillet to cook this .  then wait for the skillet really hot
  • pour the meat in stir it two rounds add your onions stir it then turn off stove.
  • That’s it .
  • Salad of any kind will work,and to make it more chảy nước miếng is pickled slice onions in vinegar and sugar to add to salad ( prep salad and onions before the meat).
  • You may eat this with bread, rice or just it with croutons.

Bon appétit.

thịt giò bó

This dish is similar to thịt xá xíu.

Ingredients:

  • a good piece of pork belly,
  • 3-4 gloves of garlic,
  • salt ,sugar or honey ,
  • some bột xá xíu .

Directions:

  • Mix all together in a bowl.
  • First you may slit the top part of the meat then rub in the finely minced garli.  Let this sit and marinade for about an hour or longer.
  • prepare a steam cooker,
  • use the twine to tie the meat with spacing about 1 inch apart
  • use aluminum foil wrap it tight
  • steam it about 30-40 minutes.

Notes: check and add more water in the pot enough until it is done.

Custard for fruit tarts

by Suzy Kupetz

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 C cream
  • 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
  • 1 1/2 C sugar
  • 1 T vanilla extract
  • pinch of nutmeg

Instructions

  • Pour cream into eggs and blend well
  • Add sugar, vanilla extract, nutmeg
  • Each tart shell needs 1 1/2 – 2C of mixture
  • Pour into pre-baked pie crust
  • Bake until set, 350º, bottom rack
  • Let it cool, then refrigerate 2-4 hrs
  • May be frozen once baked
  • Top with fruit slices
  • Glaze with apricot glaze

Apricot Glaze

  • 18 oz ( 1 1/2C) apricot jam, melted, strained
  • Boil again
  • Add 1 envelope of unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 C kirsch or water

Instant mì

Today is nấu mì &hủ tiếu ( instant one ) but must have the flavor of the real mì Lacaze that means including salted radish, roasted dry squid, onion and bouillon cubes into 4-5 cups of water. So you will have mì in less than 30 minutes as you have the ingredients on hand.

You also can keep some ground pork as you can buy 1 lb divide in 3 or 4 small parts into a sandwich bag kept in freezer to be used when you want.   To cook for any soup put ground pork in a bowl marinade with 1/4 tsp salt, black pepper , the white part green onion mashed . In the soup until done 3 minutes in low heat.

Boil your noodles then sit down and eat !!!

canh mẳn

Ingredients :

  • fish or shrimp
  • One or two stalk of green onion
  • Tomato and dicon ( optional )
  • Yellow onion
  • Fish sauce

Instructions:

Boil two cups of water in a small pan ,

mash and chop the white part of green onion

add two tablespoons of fish sauce , a little bit of bouillon

add your fish in just about 3-5 minutes

last but not least, add tomatoes in wedges in

let it comes up to a boil again then turn off the stove

add green onion cut up 1/2 in long . That’s it .

For dipping sauce: Have lime or lemon juice and few slices of red pepper in a small saucer.

Oh good cook rice will go well with that , make sure you cook the rice before cooking the dishes.

Must have ingredients for a well-stocked kitchen

  • bouillon,
  • salted radish,
  • cải bắp thảo ( preserved cabbage in the jar )
  • sesame oil ,
  • rock sugar ,
  • anise stars ,
  • five spices,

 

For Phở : yellow onion, ginger, anis stars must be roasted until partly burnt, that not only flavor but color of the soup too.

For mì and hủ tiếu,dry squid, yellow onion also roasted ,salted radish another secret

Cơm Rang

Basic

Mẹ can give you a few different recipes: one called cơm rang nhà nghèo , it’s just easy as you can cook only cơm nguội , tỏi muối đường as you can start with a skillet add a tablespoon of veg oil 4-5 cloves of garlic chopped add a bowl full of cơm nguội stir around to avoid burning or sticking about few minutes then add salt and sugar to taste . That’s it .

With eggs

Another one you can mix egg into the rice before cook with chopped onion and garlic then seasoned with salt and sugar to taste .

Fancy

And here’s a fancy, delicious and luxurious one like you all had every time we got together here it is : rice, lạp xưởng , ham , pork meat , onion garlic salt,sugar and mixed vegetables such as carrots, green peas ,corn as desired. You also need to make some scrambled eggs then chop them in small chunks set aside then add to the rice when processing.
It takes long time to finish and also put more attention in order to get it tasty.

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