The Carrot Cake (Bánh Cà Rốt)

I was never really a fan of Carrot Cake (Bánh Cà Rốt) all these while probably because I never had any good experience eating a good carrot cake out there. However, I think it is one of best Vietnamese food. Maybe the thought of eating a “vegetable” cake deterred me from wanting to try this out compared to chocolate cakes or cheese cakes. Anyway, not any longer ever since we got ourselves a Fagor oven in our new house. Carrot cake rocks! More so when it is topped with lemon cream cheese frosting and eaten slightly chilled.
 

 

My wife made this a couple of weeks back and I am now a fan of this best Vietnamese food. Moist and nutritious, this carrot cake is laden with freshly grated carrots, sweetened pineapples, oven-toasted walnuts and plump raisins. I think the best part that there is no mixer involved (with a little caveat that a mixer would be required to prepare the frosting). Just get yourself a big bowl and spatula and give it a good mix manual.
 

 

What makes this carrot cake so special that I have decided to call it the Ultimate Carrot Cake Recipe? Well, it’s been handed down from my mother-in-law to my wife; it tastes good as reported by many who have tasted this and most of all, one piece is never enough. Need I say more? Sift the flour with soda and baking powder. Add castor sugar.Beat eggs lightly in a separate bowl. Add in vanilla essence.
 

 

Pour egg mixture into the flour and stir well. Then add grated carrots followed by cooking oil. Add in the chopped pineapples and stir well.Then add in the raisins and walnuts.Pour mixture into a greased and floured tray and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 45 minutes.Remove from oven and allow standing to cool before applying a thin layer of frosting. Now it is the end of making this best Vietnamese food.
 

 

To sum up, cake is best served chilled. Beat cream cheese and butter in a bowl of using a hand-held or electric mixer. Beat on low speed till blended. Gradually add icing sugar (sifted) and continue beating until smooth.Add vanilla essence and grated lemon and allow to beat till well combined. Hope you like the making way of this best Vietnamese food. Have a nice day.

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Stewed Chili Pork (Heo Hầm Ớt)

If you are looking for a delicious pork recipe which tastes sweet and hot, Stewed Chili Pork (Heo Hầm Ớt) might just be what you are looking for. This one is one of Best Vietnamese Food. Using dried chilies for a fiery taste and dark soya sauce, this dish is guaranteed to whet your appetite and make you ask for second helpings of rice. Best of all, it is a simple dish to cook and can be attempted by a beginner.
 

 

I use pork belly for this recipe due to the texture of this part of the meat. Containing layers of fat and meat, each bite will give you a nice blend of slightly chewy meat in contrast with the smooth fat. No, it is not that healthy to be consuming this dish but once a fortnight or month should be fine. Again, just like the other recipes on this site, you do not have to follow all the measurements of ingredients to the dot.

>>> Pan Fried Fish with Leek Sauce (Cá Chiên Sốt Tỏi Tây)
 

 

If you like this Best Vietnamese Food getting spicier, add more dried chilies or vice versa. Most of all, cook this and be blown away by its tastiness! Highly recommended! Heat the work for a while and then adding the oil and sauté dried chili with garlic till aromatic.

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Before garlic turns brown, add sliced pork and stir well. Add sugar and dark soya sauce. Once pork is cooked on outer side, add water gradually (ensure that water continues to boil) followed by salt, pepper and Chinese cooking wine. It is then end of making this Best Vietnamese Food.
 

 

Finally, cook till gravy reduced before dishing up. Now you can serve this Best Vietnamese Food and enjoy it. This dish is quite good in the cold day. Hope you have a good time when eating it with your family. Have a nice day, everyone.

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Pan Fried Fish with Leek Sauce (Cá Chiên Sốt Tỏi Tây)

Today, we will together discover one Best Vietnamese Food in Vietnamese Meal. It is Pan Fried Fish with Leek Sauce (Cá Chiên Sốt Tỏi Tây). Plain fried fish is a common fare in Vietnamese home. With a simple seasoning of salt, fish like mackerel and prom fret is fried and eaten as it is for its natural sweet taste. Problem is, sometimes you cannot finish the fish in one meal and you need to re-fry it for the next meal.
 

 

Re-frying makes the fish meat tough and less appealing. One of the ways to overcome this would be to cook some form of sauce to “soften” the fried fish. Of course, you can always use fresh fish fried for the first time and cook it this way so that the fish is not overly dry. 
 

 

The first step of making this Best Vietnamese Food is choosing the fresh fish and then cut many block of fish. Over here, we used a portion of snapper. As for the leek, it imparts sweetness to the dish and is good chewing as it is quite tender by the time the whole dish is cooked. Give it a try.
 

 

Marinade fish for 30 minutes with salt. Give it a quick rinse thereafter and deep/shallow fry in wok till cooked. Remove and place on plate.
 

 

Clean wok and heat it for a while and then heat up 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil. Next you can add Sauté ginger, leeks and chili till ginger starts to brown. Add some water (about 4 tablespoons or more) and bring to boil. Add light soya sauce and sugar to taste and cook leeks till desired softness. Add water if sauce is too dry to your liking. It is the end of making this traditional food.
 

 

To sum up, pour sauce over fried fish and serve hot with steaming white rice. There is no word to explain the delicious flavor of this combination. This Best Vietnamese Food will satisfy the every diner even the hard one. Eating with boiled rice and hot soup is a perfect way to feel the true specific flavor in Vietnamese Meals.

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Black Bean Soup (Súp Đậu Đen)

I was at two minds whether to post the picture below. The picture does not justice to the delicious full bodied taste of this Black Bean Soup (Súp Đậu Đen) which is one of Best Vietnamese Food. Black Bean Soup is highly nutritious as black beans (also called “Black Turtle Beans”) are known to be packed with all sorts of vitamins and minerals. The soup tastes naturally sweet (not like sugar) and is very appetizing when combined with a meal of steamed rice and other dishes.

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The recipe of this Best Vietnamese Food is pretty much a “cook and leave it” recipe especially if you use a charcoal stove to double boil the soup. I am always partial to double boiling soup on a charcoal stove as the taste is immensely different, not to mention the effect it has on tenderizing the meat which is being cooked. If you do not have a charcoal stove, fret not as a gas or electric stove is fine and direct cooking is possible. For this recipe, direct cooking rather than double boiling is shown as I know not everyone has a double boiler at home.
 

 

Bring water to boil in a pot. Add pork/chicken and bring water back to boil. Remove scum from upper layer as water is boiling. Thereafter, add black beans (and the optional ingredients) and allow boiling for 2 minutes before reducing heat to low. Simmer till soup reduced to approximately 1 1/2 soup bowls. This Best Vietnamese Food will taste great if it is simmered for at least 2 1/2 hours and try not to add water midway through cooking.
 

 

To sum up, if you are double boiling, place beans and pork/chicken (plus optional ingredients) in double boiler and add 2 soup bowls of boiling hot water. Cover lid and double boil for 3 hours. Now you can serve this Best Vietnamese Food to table and enjoy with your happy family. Happy Weekend Everyone.
 

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Ba Khía (Freshwater Crabs)

Besides of the natural landscape and the pristine beauty, people who to come to canal would enjoy a dish that has long been a local specialty: Ba Khía (Freshwater Crabs). This ingredient is really popular to create many Best Vietnamese Food.  However there are some little can enjoy it because the flavor and smell is quite hard.
 

 

Rạch Gốc Ba Khía has a brand over the years as only the third local areas truly delicious, more attractive. Around July, August is the annual lunaris the Ba Khía’s season. This type of Ba Khía eat black fall fruit sauce, therefore it has lipstick brick, aromatic meat and just three ways to make more elsewhere.
 

 

After catching Ba Khía, washed and salted it on the spot. Salt permeability for about 5 to 7 days and nights can be eaten. Next is salt Ba Khía, you need to be careful that salt it not too salty, not too light salt. So if the meat salty gasoline, even if the flesh colors too weak stomach, loss of appetite. Here is also the important way to create Best Vietnamese Food from my country.
 

 

In addition, Ba Khía is also cooked with lemongrass sauce. Sauce is made very simple but no less special, including minced lemongrass, mixed with fresh rice, the spicy little pepper to create and give a little more seasoning to taste. When I write this article, I could not stop thinking about this Best Vietnamese Food.
 

 

With this food, very sweet flesh of three ways, by air fragrant with the chili pepper, lemon and a little sour, warm batch of rice. Three ways with boiled sauce is a dish will not be forgotten for visitors. Hope you can satisfy with this post which gives you enough information about this amazing ingredient to create many Best Vietnamese Food in my country. Have a happy trip with your family and friends.
 

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Crayfish Cà Mau (Tôm Tít Cà Mau)

Crayfish Cà Mau (Tôm Tít Cà Mau) is present from sea, especially dedicated to the friends from the mainland to visit Ca Mau. Crayfish’s meat is delicious, fresh, tasty medium gentle sea, far from the taste of shrimp and lobster. It is now considered one of best Vietnamese food.
 

 

For a crayfish party is very attractive, there must first be selected for the wine and the shrimp are jumping. The bigger of this best Vietnamese food the greater value it is. 4-6 Type I /kg are truly "world-class".

The cooking way of this best Vietnamese food is not very picky, just steamed, boiled or baked, with salt or lemon pepper fish sauce Foot binding enough visitors every domain. The handy man and "soul" are shown eating thin pressing the dried crayfish, as it is scrumptious dishes for entertaining friends or courtesy.
 

 

Boiled shrimp is done, if the shrimp are large, they put the child up and drive a knife cut each folded for easy peeling. If baking, to fan the embers, are always returned, cooked shrimp shells gold, rising aroma is complex. But most were on hand peeled; slice extra pair of herbs, chewing up feeling crunchy punchy and sweet. If the child is small shrimp to hear crunchy bite.

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Best Food in Can Tho Province

 

 

Crayfish meat is red, ward complex flavor, soft but not mealy. Discerning People often use this dish with more vegetables, tomato, banana, cucumber and if there as good extra bit of mustard. Shrimp meat wrapped in rice paper if they wish to put vegetables and sour sauce - spicy, not sure if that package rolls up. If there are more bottles of rice wine or a few cans of beer party even more exciting.  If you come to this place, there is no reason you would not enjoy this best Vietnamese food.
 

 

 

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Best Food in Can Tho Province

As I promised, this post I will continue to introduce more Best Vietnamese Food in Can Tho Province for all you guys. Now, together we will discover more interesting food in this place before planning to visit it, ok? The next food i want to tell is:

Best Vietnamese Food in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam

 

5. Vietnamese Cong Cakes (Bánh cóng):
 

 

It usually uses with Vietnamese Steamed Rice Pancake Rolls (Banh Cuon). But, with gourmets, they always want to eat only Cong Cakes. It will create a stunning flavor in their mouth. Using with vegetable and dipping fish sauce in rainy days is never better. Read more about Bánh cóng if you want to know how to cook it at home .

6. Rice Spaghetti with Pork skin (Bánh tằm bì):
 

 

This recipe is very famous in the South of Vietnam and definitely well deserved to be on the list of Vietnamese Food. Its taste is special: the rice spaghetti is steamed and served with clear fish sauce, coconut milk, vegetables, bean sprouts & pickled vegetable. If you like, a little bit of Stir fried spring onions with fat (Mỡ hành) would be enchanted.

7. Phong Điền’s Rice vermicelli with roasted pork (Bánh hỏi - heo quay Phong Điền):
 

 

Rice vermicelli is used as side dish when eating roasted pork and served with herbs, fish sauce and sweet & sour soya sauce. It depends on the region that the local people may have a touch on the recipe to adjust the taste.

8. Vietnamese Crepes (Bánh Xèo Việt Nam):
 

 

As it has been introduced before by Vietnamese Food Team, this recipe is absolutely on our list of best Vietnamese food. Here is also the most popular food in this province as well. Get this recipe about Vietnamese Crepe right here if you want to discover the true specific flavour of Vietnamese people.

9. Apple Mangrove Hot Pot in PhùSa (Lẩu bần Phù Sa):
 

 

This dish can be served at any seasons even though its season has not arrived yet because the local restaurants there know how to extract the juice from the Apple Mangrove. If you want to have a delicious hot pot, the fish should be carefully selected also but depends on the season, you can be flexible to substitute the fish with many kinds such as: shark catfish, eeltail catfish, Taiwan tilapia, etc.

So how do you think of our 9 dishes in best Vietnamese food section? Some of the dishes have been introduced before by Vietnamese Food Team and here it is classified as one our most favourite recipes in Can Tho Province. If you have a chance to visit Can Tho Province, remember to try these special dishes, take photos of them and share with us on our sites.

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