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Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef (Pho bo) or chicken (Pho ga).The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with basil, lime, bean sprouts, and peppers that are added to the soup by the consumer.

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Archive for 2010

Agar agar - Cooking oil - Curry - Five spice powder - Food coloring


Agar-agar (rau câu, thạch)
Agar – agar is used commonly to make sweet foods (e.g. sweet lotus seed soup, fruit agar – agar, etc. ) When cooking agar – agar, we need to follow the instructions on the products. Agar – agar is usually packed in packets of at least 25 grams which is enough to cook with 2 to 3 liters of water and make about 10 to 15 servings. We have to stir the substance continuously while cooking so that agar – agar doesn’t become burnt at the bottom of the pot.

Cooking oil ( dầu ăn )
In the pass, people used lard tofry food but as cooking oil is much better and more convenient, more and more people use it. Cooking oil has many kinds such as soya bean oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, etc.

Curry ( cà ry )
Vietnamese use curry to cook many dishes, especially, with poultry meats. Curry is also used to cook vegetarian dishes. We can use curry powder and mixed curry leaves for your convenience in cooking.

Five – spice powder (ngũ vị hương )
Five – spice powder is mixed from 5 different spices. These are cinnamon, pepper, clove, fennel and star anise. Chinese five spices is used a lot in Vietnam in roasted ducks and chickens, grilled slopes, etc. When making vegetarian dishes, we don’t use five spice powder.

Food coloring (Màu thực phẩm )
Food coloring makes dishes look rice. In Vietnam, people love to use natural colors of vegetables. For example, gấc fruit gives the red – orange colour, red beef gives the red – purple colour, pandan leaf gives the green colour, coconut milk gives the white colour, orange gives the arrange colour, etc

SWEET CORN SOUP

Chè Bắp is basically Vietnamese corn pudding with tapioca pearls and coconut milk. Corn is in season so I have to make this Vietnamese dessert. I got the recipe from Mrs. Apple from another forum. She gave me a great tip. She suggested that I used half bag of fresh pandan and extracted the juice out from the leaves . Then added to the pot. And I did.
1. Serves:
       Preparetion time: 10 mins
       Cooking time: about 60 mins
2. Ingredients:
       2 large corn ears
       150g (5 oz) glutinous rice
       200 (7 oz) sugar
       1 cup coconut milk
       1 tablespoon cornstarch
       Pinch of salt
       Pinch of vanilla
3. Recipe:
1. Peel corn ears, remove their corn silk. Use a peeler to shave thin layers to the cobs. Discard the cobs.
2. Wash glutinous rice well. Bring 1.5 liters of water to a boil, add glutinous rice and simmer for about 40 minutes. Add corn and cook for 10 minutes. Stir once in a while so the soup is not burned at the bottom of the pot. Add sugar, a little salt and ½ cup of coconut milk, stir well. Season again. Add vanilla. Stir and remove from heat immediately
3. Mix ½ cup of coconut milk with ¼ cup of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar and a little salt. Then bring to a boil in a pot. Mix cornstarch in bowl of water and pour into the pot. Stir and cook until the mixture is viscid, then remove from heat immediately
4. Ladle soup out into bowls, add a tablespoon of coconut milk mixture and serve.