Cà chua trộn xì dầu tỏi (Tomatoes mixed with soy sauce and minced garlic)

You should choose the succulent ripe cherry tomato to make this appetizer. This dish is not only against overweight but also helps to keep your skin beautiful and healthy.

Ingredients:

Cherry tomato amount is optional; 1 cloves garlic, white vinegar, coriander, vinegar, soy sauce, white sesame roasted.

Directions:

- Tomatoes can leave the stem if you'd like, but remember to soak it thoroughly and drain well.

- Minced peeled garlic.

- Coriander finely chopped.

- Mix white vinegar, soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sesame oil and white sesame roasted to taste just right.

- Use a sharp knife, departed cross about half a tomato and then put into the oven at 200 degrees C for 10 minutes.

- Add minced garlic and coriander to the tomatoes and place in the oven for another 5 minutes.

- Arrange tomatoes on deep-plate, slowly sprinkle the mixture of soy sauce and enjoy.

Cà Tím Xào (Stir-Fried Asian Eggplant)

Eggplant is popular around the world. In Vietnam, it’s Asian Eggplant. It can cook a variety of delicious dishes, especially grilled and stir-fried Asian eggplant.

Stir-Fried Asian Eggplant

Ingredients:

4 Asian eggplants

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 teaspoons minced garlic

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon sugar

2 hot red peppers, seeded and thinly sliced

1 handful of chopped green onions

1 teaspoons ground pepper

Directions:

Cut each eggplant in half lengthwise, then cut diagonally into 1.5 cm slices. Cover the eggplants with water, add the salt, and stir to dissolve the salt. Soak the eggplants for 5 minutes, then drain well.

In a small bowl, mix the vegetable oil with the sugar and set aside.

Heat a wok or nonstick skillet over high heat. Add the vegetable oil, garlic, red peppers, and eggplants and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons water and continue stir-frying for 2 more minutes. Add the vegetable oil mixture, the chopped green onions, and the ground pepper and stir well to mix. Remove to a platter and serve hot or cold.

Image is for illustration purposes only.

Eggplant can also be battered before deep-frying and served with a sauce made of fish sauce with red pepper and garlic.

Eggplant can be cooked delicious food and good for health.

A variety of country vegetables served with braised meats or braised fishes.

There are many different kinds of vegetables in my hometown – Trang Bang, Tay Ninh. Fortunately, I already knew most of them. Some of them can only be found here.  I have been eating mostly vegetables. We have a very special flavor and very tasty. There are often used as vegetables served with braised meats or braised fishes. It's delicious all criticism! Such as:

“Bông lục bình” (Water Hyacinth)

“Hẹ nước” (Eel-grass)

“Rau bợ” (Marsilea quadrifolia or Four Leaf Clover), use of the stems and leaves.

Bông lục bình” (Water Hyacinth), use of the flowers.

“Hẹ nước” (Eel-grass), use of the stems.

“Rau chốc” (Heartleaf False Pickerelweed), use of the stems.

Try eating one of them, I bet you will never forget the taste of it. Now that I live far away from home, I remember the taste of them extremely. Every time returning to my hometown, my mom will cook braised “cá chạch” (Spiny eel fishes) with turmeric served with these vegetables. Because she know I love to eat them.

Sour soup with snakehead fish and “dien dien” flower (Sesbania sesban)

The first time I saw "Dien Dien" flower, when I was a little boy.

My mom cooked the sour soup with "dien dien" flower. It was very nice.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I love "dien dien" flower very much.

IT'S MY CHILDHOOD.

Sour soup with “dien dien” flower and snakehead fish

Ingredients:

• 500 gr “dien dien” flower
• 500 gr snakehead fish (a whole fish)
• 50 gr tamarind pulp
• Rice paddy herd, sawtooth herb, red chili, garlic, salt, fish sauce, sugar

This picture is only for illustration purpose.

Directions:

1. Cleaning fish, cutting into pieces, keeping fish head. “Dien dien” flower only keep in blossom, clean it.
2. Red chili cut into thin slices.
3. Cook in 4 cups of water. Add tamarind pulp, cook to dissolve it. Add 2 tsp salt, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp fish sauce. And add snakehead fish, cook just until just tender. Adjust the seasonings to taste.
4. Chop the garlic, fry it.
5. Add “dien dien” flower into bowl, add fish over the “dien dien” flower. Put boiling soup into bowl. Sprinkle slices of red chili and one kind of chopped herb. Served in fish sauce.

Beside snakehead fish, we can use "ca linh", "ca bong lau" (pangasius krempfi) to cook this sour soup.

This sour soup can also be eaten with rice or bún (thin rice noodles).

Nước Chanh Nha Đam (Aloe Vera Lemonade)

Aloe Vera Lemonade Recipe

Ingredients: (for 1 glass of Aloe Vera Lemonade)

• 1 Big Healthy Aloe Vera Stalk
• 1 Fresh Lemon
• 1/2 Cups of Water
• 2 spoonful of sugar
• Some Cube Ice

Directions:

1. Filet and cut out the gel from your Aloe Vera stalk. Sitting in salt water, the gel is not greasy. And it is diced. Put it in the boiling water and take it out immediately. Get it in the fridge.
2. Cut a lemon into two parts. And cut it into 2-3 slices.
3. Put lemon juice and sugar into cup and stir well.
4. Put the mixture into the glass. After that, put ices, Aloe Vera and 2-3 slices of lemon into the glass.

There's nothing like a cold Aloe Vera Lemonade on a hot summer day in Vietnam.