Vietnamese Cooking
Vietnamese Cooking-What is it about the the pleasure of Vietnamese Cooking
Explore the flavours of Vietnamese Cooking,
Layers of flavour bursting on your tongue..
When you have tried your first rice paper roll and dipped into the peanut sauce …very addictive! Now you think " I can make this! "
With practise and the right balance of ingredients you can start with some simple rice paper rolls, rice pancakes and the famous noodle soups: pho bo and pho ga almost a banquet!
The addiction of Vietnamese cooking comes primarily from the essential marriage of the basic ingredients in all Vietnamese cooking: fish sauce [nuoc nam,] mint leaves, coriander, lemongrass, ginger, opal basil being the star performers. By using clever combinations of these simple ingredients many sauces, marinades and flavour pastes found in Vietnamese cooking are created.Vietnamese Cooking also conjures up huge cauldrons of sweet and sour smelling boiling stocks with the ingredients bouncing about enhancing the flavour of the master stock. The plate of fresh herb leaves still on the stem for you to add freshly picked, chopped fresh chilli and salad leaves usually served with every meal, it is about the lightness and the layers of flavours that play on your mouth and your mind.
Vietnamese cooking makes you appreciate the origins from where such food came from. Imagine the women every morning carrying in produce from the fields in their bamboo baskets, just picked that dawn, and you are eating it only a few hours later, watch the women in conical hats every day planting rice in every spare patch they can and serving it to you harvested and transformed into a delicate pancake.
That is their honesty pure and simple and this is the honesty and the passion of Vietnamese cooking.It has been said that to explain Vietnamese cooking one must say that they are the masters of the simmering pot and the development of these flavours from these flavoursome pots have led to dishes known as todays modern cuisine which can hold its head high in any fine dining restaurant, yet still holding on to traditional Vietnamese cooking culture.
Explore the flavours of Vietnamese Cooking,
Layers of flavour bursting on your tongue..
When you have tried your first rice paper roll and dipped into the peanut sauce …very addictive! Now you think " I can make this! "
With practise and the right balance of ingredients you can start with some simple rice paper rolls, rice pancakes and the famous noodle soups: pho bo and pho ga almost a banquet!
The addiction of Vietnamese cooking comes primarily from the essential marriage of the basic ingredients in all Vietnamese cooking: fish sauce [nuoc nam,] mint leaves, coriander, lemongrass, ginger, opal basil being the star performers. By using clever combinations of these simple ingredients many sauces, marinades and flavour pastes found in Vietnamese cooking are created.Vietnamese Cooking also conjures up huge cauldrons of sweet and sour smelling boiling stocks with the ingredients bouncing about enhancing the flavour of the master stock. The plate of fresh herb leaves still on the stem for you to add freshly picked, chopped fresh chilli and salad leaves usually served with every meal, it is about the lightness and the layers of flavours that play on your mouth and your mind.
Vietnamese cooking makes you appreciate the origins from where such food came from. Imagine the women every morning carrying in produce from the fields in their bamboo baskets, just picked that dawn, and you are eating it only a few hours later, watch the women in conical hats every day planting rice in every spare patch they can and serving it to you harvested and transformed into a delicate pancake.
That is their honesty pure and simple and this is the honesty and the passion of Vietnamese cooking.It has been said that to explain Vietnamese cooking one must say that they are the masters of the simmering pot and the development of these flavours from these flavoursome pots have led to dishes known as todays modern cuisine which can hold its head high in any fine dining restaurant, yet still holding on to traditional Vietnamese cooking culture.
