A traditional soup that is easy to make, featuring two main ingredients, chayote squash, and store-bought ground pork paste. Its light and flavorful broth pairs beautifully with steamed rice, making it an ideal accompaniment to other side dishes for a complete family-style meal.
Read MoreA hearty and comforting chayote squash soup, featuring ground pork but feel free to substitute with your ground meat of choice. This quick and easy soup complements steamed rice and other side dishes in a traditional Vietnamese family-style meal.
Read MoreCanh Giò Heo is a Vietnamese collagen-rich, pork-based soup. Pork hocks (feet) and sometimes even toes are gently simmered until soft and gelatinous. Vegetables such as potatoes and carrots are then added and gently cooked until chopstick tender. This is a comforting soup and now that it’s cold outside, it’s the perfect way to warm up.
Read MoreThis simple and tasty tomato egg drop soup is a great addition to a traditional Vietnamese family meal. It’s great for those who spent way too much time on the other side dishes and forgot a soup dish to complete a meal. In less than 15 minutes, you can have a popular soup that utilizes two common ingredients: tomatoes and eggs.
Read MoreHere is a quick and easy Vietnamese sweet and sour soup (canh chua). This soup features salmon filets, Indian taro stems, enoki mushroom, and tomatoes, all cooked in a flavorful sweet and sour tamarind broth. Topped with crispy fried garlic and sliced Thai basil, this soup brings big and bold flavors. Ready in less than 30 minutes.
Read MoreLuffa gourds grow on vines with dark green foliage and yellow blossoms. When harvested at a young stage, the luffa is edible and used in many soups and stir-fried dishes. One quick luffa recipe is a traditional Vietnamese soup, Canh Muop Thit Bam. This is a quick traditional Vietnamese soup made with ground pork and luffa gourd. It’s a soup I witnessed my parents made over and over again after a long day at work. It cooks up quickly. It satisfies the hunger and it goes wonderfully with steamed rice.
Read MoreIt’s chayote season! Lots and lots of chayotes ready for harvest! Here is my quick go-to recipe for a traditional soup (canh) using chayote and minced shrimp (canh su su nau tom bam). Make this soup along side a protein side dish and you have yourself a complete traditional Vietnamese meal.
Read MoreA traditional Vietnamese family meal usually comes with a vegetable soup dish. Not only is it a healthy side dish, but having soup to slurp helps with the digestion of the food in a multi-course meal. One of the simplest traditional Vietnamese soups is mustard green soup or Canh Cai Be Xanh.
Read MoreIn Vietnamese cooking, we always clean bones first before making stock. Either rubbing them down with salt and giving them a good rinse with water, or parboiling the bones with salted water, cleaning the bones will get rid of all the impurities to keep the stock clear. In other words, boiling the bones first will remove all the gunk and make the stock pretty. In Vietnamese cooking, a highly prized stock is a clear stock.
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