Thứ Năm, 4 tháng 4, 2013

Stir-fried Beef with Minced Lemongrass Recipe (Thịt Bò Xào Sả)

Beside of soup dish, you also need at least 1 salty one for your Vietnamese meals. That is why today I want to introduce once more Vietnamese Food Recipes for all you guys. It is called Stir-fried Beef with Minced Lemongrass (Thịt Bò Xào Sả). The combination between lemongrass and beef will create a fantastic feeling when eating. To make one delicious meal, you should choose a good quality for beef meat.
 
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How do you think? Are you curious with one of Vietnamese Food Recipes like this one? If you do want to cook it, please follow my instructions below and let us start together right now.

Ingredients:

300g beef meat
3 tablespoons minced lemongrass
½ onion
Chili, garlic, salt, oyster oil, Magi’s stuff, pepper.

Process:

Step 1: Slice beef thinly. Marinate with 1 teaspoon salt + a little oyster oil + pepper. Mix well and wait in 15 minutes.

 
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Step 2: Peel off the cover of onion, slice thinly. Clean chili and slice small.
 
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Thứ Tư, 3 tháng 4, 2013

Stewed Sweet Herbal Chicken Soup (Gà Hầm Thuốc Bắc)

Stewed Sweet Herbal Chicken Soup (Gà Hầm Thuốc Bắc) is really delicious and healthy. Most herbal chicken soup can be bitter and kids do not like them. This Traditional Vietnamese Food, however, is sweet due to the ingredients used. With a combination of American dried fig, red dates, honey dates, gojiberries, dried longan, pei ji and yuk chuk , you can be assured of a sweet tasting soup filled with goodness.
 
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This amount of herbs used in this soup is estimates only and do not come under any special recipe from the Chinese medicine store. (Some ingredients above are mostly from China, so I cannot translate it to English, hope you do not mint it).
 
stewed-sweet-herbal-chicken-soup-ga-ham-thuoc-bacStewed Sweet Herbal Chicken Soup (Gà Hầm Thuốc Bắc) view more info at Vietnamesefood.com.vn

Stir-fried Fish with Ginger and Spring Onion (Cá Chiên với Gừng và Hành)

Stir-fried Fish with Ginger and Spring Onion (Cá Chiên với Gừng và Hành) is a simple yet delicious dish to prepare and it is suddenly one of Best Vietnamese Food that I really like it. You can use fresh fish or frozen fish such as dory for this dish. White fish is preferred. The key to this dish is having a stove with really hot flame so that you can cook this dish fast. Cook it a little longer and it will turn a tad too soggy.
 
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This is a simple cooking way of this Best Vietnamese Food. You could follow these following steps to make it. There is essentially two parts to cooking this dish. Firstly, to marinade and lightly fry the fish till it is cooked or almost cooked. Secondly, you cook this best Vietnamese food with ginger and spring onions. Though it is usually found in commercial eateries, you can try it at home just like what I did.
 
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Stir-fried Hard Clams Home-cooked Style (Nghêu Xào Tại Nhà)

Stir-fried Hard Clams Home-cooked Style (Nghêu Xào Tại Nhà) is Traditional Vietnamese Food based on one fishermen village that I cannot in the middle of Vietnam. Sometimes, a little bit of chili is added to make it spicier. Clams are treated no different. Some might say that cooking seafood in tomato sauce masks the natural taste and sweetness of the fresh seafood, but some say that it’s an unforgettable experience sucking up the delicious tomato sauce from the seafood. Well, we cannot please everyone, can we?
 
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I decided to cook this Traditional Vietnamese Food on last Saturday in tomato sauce because, well, that’s about the most suitable ingredient I could lay my hands on in my kitchen. I didn’t have curry powder or leaves and that means cooking kam-heong style is out of the question. Besides, it has been a long time since I had seafood home-cooked style and this was one golden opportunity to whip up something quick and simple.
 
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 Stir-fried Hard Clams Home-cooked Style (Nghêu Xào Tại Nhà)

Fried Pork Meat with Lemongrass Rolls Recipe (Heo Chiên Bọc Xả)

Today, I will introduce one of amazing Vietnamese Pork Recipes for all you guys. Instead of cooking boring meals, you can choose this food for your family meals. This dish is Fried Pork Meat with Lemongrass Rolls (Heo Chiên Bọc Xả). The specific flavor from lemongrass will be absorb into meat when frying and create a fantastic flavor in your mouth. Trust me, if the weather where you live is still freaking cold, here is a great decision.
 
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So, are you ready to cook one of stunning Vietnamese Pork Recipes with us? Eating with boiled rice and hot soup is always Vietnamese people choice. How do you think? Are you ready to cook right now? Please follow my instruction below carefully to create a stunning meal for your family.

Ingredients:

500g grinded pork
7 – 8 lemongrasses
1 tablespoon minced lemongrass
2 tablespoons tapioca starch
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Salt, Maggi’s stuff, honey, oyster oil, fish sauce, purple onion.
Vegetable oil for frying.

Process:

Step 1: Clean lemongrass sticks carefully. Peel off the hard cover and use knife to cut in quarter (like photo below).

 
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Step 2: Marinate pork meat with minced purple onion + tapioca starch + vegetable oil + salt + fish sauce + pepper + 2 tablespoons honey + minced lemongrass + sliced spring onion. Use spoon to mix them well until this mixture become thick and smooth. Here is also the important step to create one of deliciousVietnamese Pork Recipes.
 
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Thứ Ba, 2 tháng 4, 2013

Stir-fried Noodles with Sliced Pork (Mì Xào Thịt Heo Lát)

Stir-fried Noodles with Sliced Pork (Mì Xào Thịt Heo Lát) is again, one of my experiments and it is considered one of Best Vietnamese Food. Setting up this blog has resulted in me having to experiment with new recipes so that I can keep up with my postings.
 
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Before you go make this Best Vietnamese Food, let me tell you first that it is more a dish/ recipe of convenience and simplicity than sheer cooking-from-scratch. So, the stewed pork slices come from the can and the noodles are from Feel free to use any type of instant noodles but I think it will work well with the noodles which are slightly flat, not unlike fettuccine or linguine. As for the result, it’s simply delicious.
 
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Using a non-stick frying pan if available, fry the eggs in a couple of batches to form thin layers of fried egg. Cut the fried eggs to strips. Next, boil sufficient water in a pot. Cook the noodles till al-dente and then, run it over cold water. Place them in a bowl. Drizzle the sesame oil over the noodles and stir well. Place aside.
 
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Heat oil and sauté garlic with carrots. Add fish sauce and about 50 ml of water. Open the tin of stewed pork slices and pork half of the stew into the carrots. Let the gravy simmer; add the rest of the water plus seasoning. Add the cooked noodles and bean sprouts and reduce to medium heat, stirring well to ensure noodles are coated with gravy. Cook for not more than 2 minutes. It is nearly complete the progress of making this Best Vietnamese Food.
 
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 Stir-fried Noodles with Sliced Pork (Mì Xào Thịt Heo Lát) view more info at Vietnamesefood.com.vn

Stewed Beef Spleen Curry Recipe (Cà Ri Lá Lách Bò)

Like Phá Lấu (Stewed Beef/Pork Organ with Tamarind Sauce), Stewed Beef Spleen Curry (Cà Ri Lá Lách Bò) is really delicious. Eating with Bánh Mì is always a good decision. This dish comes from many stunningVietnamese Food Recipes. If you want to discover the true flavor of Vietnamese Food, you should not miss this food. Trust me, it is really tasty. Eating when it is hot is perfect.
 
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So, are you ready to discover one of Vietnamese Food Recipes like this one with us right now? It is not difficult as you thought. Creating something new for your family snack meals is the way you can show how much you love them. Here is also my mother’s way to show her love to us. Now, let us together start cooking.

Ingredients:

300g beef spleen
150g beef liver
40ml fresh milk
1 curry powder bag (5g)
100ml coconut milk
Fish sauce, Maggi’s stuff, salt, pepper
1 small brand of ginger, white wine and vinegar.

Process:

Step 1: Reduce all fat stick around beef spleen. Spread salt + vinegar + ginger + white wine around spleen well then clean again in 3 – 4 times with fresh water. Here is the important step to create one of amazingVietnamese Food Recipes. Next, boil water and bring to boil in 10 minutes.

 
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Step 2: Slice beef spleen into medium pieces, marinate with curry powder + ½ teaspoon Maggi’s stuff + 1 teaspoon fish sauce + a little pepper, mix well and wait in 1 – 2 hours. Next, pour fresh milk to cover all faces of liver. Marinate in 30 minutes as well. This way is help to reduce all poison from liver.
 
stewed-beeef-spleen-curry-recipe-ca-ri-la-lach-boStewed Beef Spleen Curry Recipe (Cà Ri Lá Lách Bò) view more info at Vietnamesefood.com.vn