The traditional Vietnamese dishes are the most delicious and well-balanced healthy food. It is because the ingredients used in cooking have all the nutritive values of vitamins, carbohydrates, lipids, minerals, and protein.
Moreover, every Vietnamese restaurant menu has the best food staples that people can enjoy pleasingly. In addition, these dishes are famous in many major cities. You can visit Dakaohaong eating house to experience new and different kinds of dishes that you ever have tasted before.
However, if you want to try any of the Vietnamese dishes at home, here in this article, we are helping you with the recipes.
5 Must-Try Traditional Vietnamese Dishes At Your Home
Fresh Sliced Rare Beef And Fatty Brisket
It is the best pho in Springvale which you can find on every Vietnamese restaurant menu. In addition, this dish is a complete feast that can be customized by adding food garnishes.
Ingredients:
For Stock:
- 4 pound beef marrow bones
- 3 pound beef flank
- 1 ginger pieces
- 2 yellow onions
- 1/3 cup fish sauce
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 8 whole dry roasted star anise
- 1 Tablespoon salt
To Cook Stock:
- 1 pound rice noodles
- 1/2 pound beef sirloin
For Garnishing:
- 1 purple onion
- 1 bunch of green onion
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 pound bean sprouts
- 5 Thai chilies
- 2 limes
- Hoisin and chili sauce
Recipe:
- Boil beef bones and beef flank on a pan for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, boil water in second pan and put the bones into it after they have boiled completely. It helps to peel off the excess fat.
- Reduce the flame when water in second pan starts boiling.
- Next, skim off the ginger and onions. Add them to a pan with fish sauce and sugar. Steam it for one and a half hours.
- Now, add star anise and cloves to suffuse the broth for 30 minutes.
- Remove star anise, cloves, onions, ginger, and bones.
- Next, add salt and continue the broth to boil.
- Put water in another pan for boiling the noodles.
- Dip a sieve full of noodles into the boiled water until they become soft. Then, keep them in a particular bowl.
- Put the sliced raw beef into the noodles and pour 3 cups of boiling soup stock over it.
- The boiling soup will cook the beef immediately.
- Next, put in some cilantro, purple, and green onion, bean sprouts, herbs, chilies, and lime.
- Serve your dish to guests with Hoisin and chili sauce.
Chinese Broccoli With Garlic Sauce
The Vietnamese restaurant menu has this scrumptious kid-friendly dish that people can easily prepare at home. Additionally, its spicy and salty taste works amazingly with the soft flavor of broccoli.
Ingredients:
- 1kg Chinese broccoli
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/3 cup chicken or vegetable broth
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp corn starch
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
Recipe:
- Chop the Chinese broccoli thinly.
- Take a bowl and combine broth, cornstarch, sesame oil, and soy sauce.
- Next, set a pan on a high flame and put vegetable oil into it.
- When oil gets hot, put Chinese broccoli and stir-fry for 5 mins.
- Now, mix garlic with it and cook for 1 min.
- Next, mix the sauce and again cook for 1 min.
- Lastly, put it on the platter and serve by pouring the oyster sauce over it.
Spicy Salt And Pepper Tofu
You will find this vegan and the gluten-free dish on every Vietnamese restaurant menu. Tofu is so soft, golden, crispy, and flavored with salt and pepper. Moreover, you can prepare it with perfection at your home.
Ingredients:
- 250g pack of tofu
- 3 tablespoon cornflour
- 2 tablespoon black powdered peppercorns
- 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 chopped red peppers
- 1 broccoli head
- 80g beansprouts
- 3 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Sesame oil
- Coriander
Recipe:
- Squeeze off the excess water present in tofu as it will give a tight texture once they are cooked.
- Cut the tofu into equal pieces.
- Next, mix ground pepper, cornflour, and 1 tablespoon of salt in one bowl. Twist each piece into a mixture to wrap.
- Heat the oil in a pan and fry up the peppers and broccoli until it turns soft.
- Next, mix bean sprouts and soy sauce. Again, cook for 2 mins. Ensure that vegetables are still crunchy. Next, sprinkle some sesame oil over it.
- Again, heat a non-stick pan with oil in it and deep fry the tofu until crispy.
- Serve by topping with vegetables and coriander.
Ban Bo Hue Spicy Beef Soup
It’s a noodle soup available on every Vietnamese restaurant menu. Additionally, the dish is prepared using beef or pork and flavored with leaves and herbs.
Ingredients:
For Ban Bo Hue:
- 1kg pork rib bones
- 500g pork jelly
- 400g beef shin
- Salt
- Sugar
- 5 lemongrass sticks
- Half pineapple
- 1 onion
For Chili Oil:
- Rapeseed oil
- 4 tablespoon dried achiote seeds
- 3 minced garlic
- 3 minced shallot
- 30g minced lemongrass
- 2 tablespoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoon shrimp paste
For Accompaniments:
- Rice noodles
- 2 sliced banana blossoms
- Beansprouts
- Lime
- Chilies
- Sliced red onion
Recipe:
- Put beef bones and pork in a pan with water. Boil it completely to skim off the bones.
- To keep the broth clear, boil the bones once again and strain out the remaining residue that comes out.
- Next, combine beef shin, pork belly, lemongrass, pineapple, onion, salt, and sugar in the broth.
- Steam the broth continually on a lower flame for an additional 1 hour till it does not obtain the flavor of pineapple, onions, and bones.
- For making chili oil, roast achiote seeds in oil until they turn amber red.
- Next, strain the seeds and put them in the pan, and set it over a medium flame.
- Next, add chili powder, chopped garlic, shallots, and lemongrass into a pan. Stir-fry and mix shrimp paste into it. Keep the mixture aside to get cool.
- For accompaniments, slice down the beef shin and pork belly and get ready the rice noodle.
- To prepare Bun bo Hue, stream chili oil into the broth and add flavors as per your taste.
- Next, put slice of beef shin, pork belly, and noodles on a plate. Scoop a few tablespoons of broth over it and garnish it with banana blossom, beansprouts, herbs, red onion, chili, and lime.
Prawn And Pork Soup With Egg Or Rice Noodles
Most of the Vietnamese restaurant menu has this delicious noodle soup. Most importantly, instead of herbs and lettuce, it has a flavor of soybean, lemon, chili, and soy sauce.
Ingredients:
5 cups chicken stock
4 garlic cloves and ginger
200g pork ribs
4 whole star anise
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon sea salt
200g sliced pork
100g choy sum
400g egg or rice noodles
fish sauce
chili powder
sliced red chili
300g finely chopped prawns
1 tablespoon sesame oil
½ tablespoon sea salt
1 tablespoon cornflour
Recipe:
- Take a saucepan and keep chicken stock in it. Put ginger, star anise, pork ribs, garlic, salt, and soy sauce into it. Simmer for 30 mins and then strain.
- Next, prepare the prawn mixture. For this, blend prawns, salt, sesame oil, water, and cornflour in a food processor until it turns smooth.
- To make the prawn balls, put back the stock on a medium flame and let it simmer again.
- Now, place tablespoonfuls of prawn mixture into stock and let it cook completely.
- Meanwhile, boil water and cook noodles and Choy sum for 2 to 3 mins. Then put them into separate bowls.
- Next, put sliced pork and prawn balls into each serving bowl. Next, pour the stock over it.
- Serve the dish with your guest with fish sauce and chili.
Conclusion
These traditional Vietnamese foods will surely give a mouth-watery taste. Besides this, people can easily make these meals at home following the proper recipe which we have mentioned above. So, serving your guests, family, and friends with these dishes will definitely make them happy.
Moreover, if you want some additional tastes and discover new dishes visit our Dakao Hoang restaurant for delicious meals. You will definitely enjoy different mouth-watering foods.
