Simple grilled prawns from award winning Ho Chi Minh City chef Quach Thien Tuong. I found the recipe in ” Street Cafe Vietnam” by Annabel Jackson. Use the freshest prawns you can find, and add a spoonful of water if you find that the dip is too tart for your taste.
A Vietnamese melt in the mouth braised dish from Jeremy Pang’s ” Simple Family Feasts”.
A rich and creamy Vietnamese soup from ” Vietnamese made Easy” by Thuy Diem Pham. She descibes it as her quick and easy version of Bánh Canh Cua Nuóc Côt Dùa.
A quick version of Ca Ri Ga ( chicken curry) from ” Alice’s Cook Book” by Alice Hart. If you have chopped root ginger or torn kaffir lime leaves add with the garlic. Prawns or cubed pork can be used instead of chicken. If you haver time leave the chicken to marinate for an hour before cooking. SErve with french baguette or some steamed rice.
A sour and crunchy salad from Diana Henry.
A recipe from ” The Vietnamese Collection” by Jackum Brown.
A dish from Australian Womens Weekly ” Easy Vietnamese Style Cookery”.
This recipe is from the Australia Women’s Weekly ” Easy Vietnamese Style Cookery”.
A Vietnamese way with chicken from Diana Henry who came across this dish in Hue in central Vietnam
A Vietnamese recipe from Madhur Jaffrey’s “Ultimate Curry Bible”.
This recipe for Hanoi Noodles with Fish is from ” The Best of Nicole Routhier”.
A Vietnamese way with chicken from ” The Best of Nicole Routhier”. You can replace the chicken with Duck or Prawns, adjusting coking times as needed.
A tasty soup from ” The Vietnamese Market Cookbook”. It calls for Gia which can usually be brought in Oriental Supermarkets but is easy to prepare at home. Mix 2 parts sugar, 1 part sea salt, 1 part ground black pepper and 1 part garlic powder. Store in a jar.
Another recipe from ” The Vietnamese Market Cookbook” which they recommend serving with thin cut french fries- and why wouldn’t you! I like to use small clams but it works with any clams or mussels.
If I had to pick one cuisine to eat for the rest of my life it would most probably be the food of Vietnam. I very much miss my local Vietnamese restaurants that i used to visit from time to time in Hackney and Shoreditch before I moved to Bristol . Today I am going to share a few recipes from ” The Vietnamese Market Cookbook” by Van Tran and Anh Vu. The two women started with a little stall selling Banh Mi and good Vietnamese Coffee in Broadway Market before running a supper club and eventually opening restaurants in Shoreditch and Clerkenwell.
