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Salad is a familiar dish in Vietnamese cuisine, made from fresh vegetables and fruits combined with sweet and sour fish sauce and various toppings. Salad not only has an appealing flavor but also provides many essential nutrients for the body.
Travellive presents some refreshing and easy-to-make salad recipes that you can try to showcase your cooking skills for your family this summer.
Jellyfish salad
Jellyfish salad is a famous specialty dish of many coastal regions of Vietnam, especially in the central region. After being carefully prepared, the jellyfish has a crispy, chewy texture. When eaten, you will feel the refreshing, salty taste of the jellyfish blended with the harmonious sweet and sour flavor of the dressing.
The fish sauce is prepared according to a special recipe, combined with spices such as lemon, garlic, chili, and sugar... creating a harmonious sweet and sour flavor that stimulates the taste buds. Jellyfish salad is not only refreshing but also provides plenty of protein and collagen, which are good for health.
When you taste it, you'll experience the refreshing, slightly salty flavor of the jellyfish blended with the harmonious sweet and sour taste of the mixed fish sauce.
Lotus root salad
Lotus root, the main ingredient of this salad, is the tender, crisp, and sweet stem of the lotus plant. The crunchy, refreshing taste of lotus root blends with its natural sweetness. Combined with pork belly, fresh prawns, crisply sliced carrots and onions, and fragrant herbs, it creates a unique symphony of flavors that stimulates the taste buds.
The "soul" of lotus root salad is the dipping sauce. The sauce is made with a special recipe, a harmonious blend of sweet and sour flavors, combined with a mild spiciness from chili peppers, creating a wonderfully stimulating taste. The salad is served with rice paper, a little bit of Vietnamese coriander, mint, and crunchy peanuts.
Lotus root salad is not only a delicious dish but also a wonderful gift for health.
Lotus root is rich in vitamins and minerals, helping to cool the body, detoxify, and benefit the digestive and cardiovascular systems. Pork belly and prawns provide abundant protein, helping the body replenish energy.
Chicken salad with mangosteen
Chicken and mangosteen salad is a unique and novel dish, combining tender chicken, crunchy mangosteen, and the sweet and sour flavor of a fish sauce dressing. This dish has become incredibly popular in recent years, with people even searching for mangosteen trees in orchards, making this fruit expensive.
The mangosteen is selected from those that are just ripe, with a characteristic refreshing sweet and sour taste. The crisp, chewy white pulp of the mangosteen is thinly sliced, blending with the subtle sweetness to create a unique dish. The boiled chicken is shredded, tender and sweet, and combined with various aromatic herbs to enhance the flavor.
Chicken salad with mangosteen not only has a delicious flavor but also provides plenty of protein, fiber, and vitamins that are good for your health.
Banana blossom salad
The main ingredient of banana blossom salad is the young shoots of the banana plant, thinly sliced and mixed with herbs, sour starfruit, peanuts, etc. The dressing for banana blossom salad is usually a harmonious blend of sweet and sour flavors, with a touch of spiciness from chili peppers, creating an irresistible and distinctive taste.
When enjoying banana blossom salad, you'll experience the crispness of the banana blossom, the refreshing sourness of starfruit, the richness of peanuts, and the spicy kick of chili peppers, all blending together to create a wonderful symphony of flavors. Banana blossom salad is not only a delicious dish but also a folk remedy that helps cool the body, detoxify the liver, aid digestion, and boost immunity.
This salad not only has a delicate and refined flavor but also offers many health benefits.
Pomelo salad with shrimp and dried squid
It may sound strange, but pomelo salad with dried shrimp and squid is a specialty dish of Southern Vietnam, featuring a unique combination of the sweet and sour taste of pomelo, the chewy texture of dried shrimp and squid, and the rich flavor of peanuts. The dressing for this salad is typically a rich sweet and sour sauce with a hint of spiciness from chili peppers, creating an unforgettable flavor. Pomelo salad with dried shrimp and squid is a healthy dish rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals, and is especially refreshing during the summer.
This dish is a harmonious blend of color and flavor, with juicy pink grapefruit, a tangy sourness combined with sweet and fragrant squid, and crunchy peanuts, winning hearts on any summer menu.
