Salad is a familiar dish in Vietnamese cuisine, made from fresh vegetables and fruits combined with sweet and sour fish sauce and a variety of toppings. Salad not only has an attractive flavor but also provides many essential nutrients for the body.
Join Travellive to review some refreshing, easy-to-make salads that you can refer to to show off your cooking skills for your family this summer.
Jellyfish salad
Jellyfish salad is a famous specialty dish of many coastal regions of Vietnam, especially the Central region. After being carefully processed, jellyfish will have a crunchy texture. When enjoying, we will feel the cool, salty taste of jellyfish mixed with the sweet and sour taste of mixed fish sauce.
Fish sauce is mixed according to a special recipe, combined with spices such as lemon, garlic, chili, sugar... creating a harmonious sweet and sour taste, rich, stimulating the taste buds. Jellyfish salad is not only refreshing but also provides a lot of protein and collagen which is good for health.
When enjoying, we will feel the cool, salty taste of jellyfish mixed with the sweet and sour taste of mixed fish sauce.
Lotus root salad
Lotus root, the main ingredient of the salad, is the young, crispy and sweet part of the lotus plant. The crunchy, refreshing taste of lotus root blends with the natural sweetness. Combined with pork belly, fresh prawns, carrots, crispy shredded onions, and aromatic herbs, all create a unique symphony of flavors that stimulates the taste buds.
The "soul" of lotus root salad is the mixed fish sauce. The fish sauce is mixed according to a special recipe, harmoniously sweet and sour, combined with the mild spiciness of chili, creating a wonderful taste stimulation. The salad is eaten with rice paper, adding a little Vietnamese coriander, mint and peanuts.
Lotus root salad is not only a delicious dish but also a great health gift.
Lotus root contains many vitamins and minerals, helps to cool down, detoxify, good for the digestive system and cardiovascular system. Pork belly and prawn provide abundant protein, helping the body replenish energy.
Mangosteen Chicken Salad
Mangosteen chicken salad is a unique and new dish with the combination of soft and chewy chicken, crunchy mangosteen and the sweet and sour taste of mixed fish sauce. This dish has also been popular in recent years, people even hunt for mangosteen gardens, making this fruit become expensive.
Mangosteens are selected from green fruits that are just ripe, with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. The white, crunchy pulp of the mangosteen is thinly sliced, mixed with a light sweetness, creating a unique taste for the dish. The boiled chicken is shredded, soft and sweet, mixed with herbs to enhance the flavor.
Mangosteen chicken salad not only has an attractive flavor but also provides lots of protein, fiber and vitamins that are good for health.
Banana flower salad
The main ingredient of banana flower salad is the young buds of the banana tree, thinly sliced and mixed with herbs, star fruit, peanuts... The fish sauce mixed with banana flower salad is often mixed with a harmonious sweet and sour taste, adding a little bit of spicy chili to create a unique and irresistible flavor.
Enjoying banana flower salad, you will feel the crunchy taste of banana flower, the sour taste of star fruit, the rich taste of peanuts and the spicy taste of chili mixed together to create a wonderful symphony of flavors. Banana flower salad is not only a delicious dish but also a folk remedy to help cool the body, detoxify the liver, aid digestion and increase resistance.
This salad not only has a delicate, elegant flavor but also brings many health benefits.
Grapefruit salad with dried shrimp and squid
It may sound strange, but grapefruit salad with dried shrimp and squid is a specialty dish of the South with a unique combination of the sweet and sour taste of grapefruit, the crunchy taste of shrimp, dried squid and the fatty taste of peanuts. The fish sauce mixed with grapefruit salad with dried shrimp and squid is often mixed with a rich sweet and sour taste, adding a little bit of chili to create a unique and unforgettable flavor. Grapefruit salad with dried shrimp and squid is a dish that provides a lot of protein, vitamins and minerals that are good for health, especially a refreshing dish for this summer.
The dish is a harmony of color and flavor with juicy pink grapefruit, sour and spicy flavor combined with sweet and fragrant squid, crispy and fatty peanuts, capturing the hearts of the summer menu.
