Never knew this fish had such a funny name. No one can explain. But let’s put the name aside for now, the important thing is that the fish makes the family meal more delicious. Like the catfish (same family, but red tail, bigger), the fish has a lot of small bones, but in return, the fish meat is fatty, soft and sweet. Unlike some other freshwater fishes, porpoises (including bream) only remove the intestines, clean the gills, cut off the fins and tail. Very quick. Absolutely do not scrape fish scales, because the fish scales are soft, crunchy, strange to eat. In addition, this fish scale should be accidentally crushed, making the fish meat bitter, so the villagers just let it be. Given the job by my mother, my brother and I quickly prepared some unpleasant fish, carefully placing them in a bamboo basket to drain. Mother gently put the basket of fish into the pot to marinate. As the name of the dish is “potato braised”, so my mother never seasoned it too salty, nor sweet. Depending on the taste of each place, each person has a different way of seasoning. But do not add cooking oil or add fat to create a very greasy taste because the nature of the meat and fish head is already fat. To color the broth, you can use coconut-colored water or molasses sugar. Marinate fish for 30 minutes for firm meat. Then, my mother brought it to the stove to cook. Wood stove has the advantage that in addition to saving money on gas, it also has the advantage that the firewood burns evenly and smoldering, so the fish cooks slowly, without having to watch. When the fish water is boiling, evenly absorbed, add one and a half cups of filtered water and cook until the fish is cooked, then season again and then turn off the stove. Do not overcook the fish, it is no longer crispy, but it is crushed. Add finely chopped scallions (or basil) and pepper to enhance the flavor and keep the stomach warm. Mom gently scooped up the broth and fish on a plate. Cut a piece of fresh lemon, mother squeezed it on the fish plate. The special braised dish there, without the sourness of the lemon is missing an important part. The basket of field vegetables picked by the father behind the dike was also placed on the dining table. The rice tray is simple but cozy. Always, after the word “invite the whole family to eat rice”, I quickly pick up the vegetables with chopsticks because I love raw vegetables. Wow, the vegetables, watercress and water need to be rolled up like a spring roll and then put into the chopsticks to dip the broth in the broth. How did the fat, slightly sour, and sweet leopard taste permeate the raw vegetables? Because this fish has many bones, it must be skillful in how to pick it up and know how to eat it to fully enjoy the delicious taste. Use a spoon or chopsticks to push the fish meat horizontally, the meat will drift along each fiber, leaving the fish skeleton intact. After eating this back side, turn over to the back side. Don’t forget to use the fish head, it’s very crunchy (but remember to leave out the two fisheye balls). Putting a piece of rice in my mouth with cod meat, I felt all sorts of flavors in the tip of my tongue – wanting to eat forever even though my stomach was full. Above all, the most delicious taste is the taste of the countryside, the sacred love of a mother for her family.

Braised cod fish on the fire. PHOTO: CAM THUU According to the residents along the riverside, in the past, the Ve River, the section through Hanh Thien commune, had a lot of fish and shrimp. In the rainy season, the fish goes to the field. Then, after the flood, the local and local trawlers came back to put the nets on stakes, and then two people holding a rope with many shells waded in the field. Pulled fish is brought to sell at the district market. As for the people in the area, when they go to store fish, they bring it back to the warehouse with ginger leaves to eat with rice, both delicious and warm. The riverside residents know by heart the experience of “shrimp walking in the twilight. Fish go to dawn”, so in the evening go to catch or at dawn go to put hooves on the river. The catfish, perch they brought to the market to sell, while the ditch fish, carp and river shrimp with long claws were brought to sell to the owner of the rice shop. After buying fish, the owner washes the fish with salt and then marinates it with fish sauce, pepper, onions, chili, garlic and especially fresh turmeric for about half an hour. Then, put the pan on, pour in the peanut oil to reduce. Then pour in the fish, cook the rim for a few tens of minutes and the fish is cooked. Braised cod is easy to make, but different in that it is marinated for the hunting fish and when the fish is cooked evenly, then seasoned with salt and fish sauce to taste so that when enjoying, you can feel the full flavor of the homeland. The fatty taste of fish, the bitter taste of fish intestines and the aroma of fresh pepper, onion and turmeric. Therefore, some diners after enjoying the fish dish ordered another bowl of rice. Many diners are too familiar with the famous braised cod fish here when entering the restaurant, they order one for each person to eat to their heart’s content. While having a meal, combining braised fish with vegetable soups, eggplant, and pickled vegetables is even more delicious. After eating, drink a bowl of fresh tea and then find an empty shop to choose a hammock to swing. The wind from the river, from the fields is like caressing the skin, dispelling the hot sun of the hot summer afternoon. And no appointment, but everyone remembers, when returning to Nghia Hanh, they all enjoy a meal with a country flavor, with braised cod fish at Chieu Anh restaurant.

“For every layer of lemongrass, there is a layer of fish, bacon, green banana, chili, fresh pepper. Add stock, soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and fish stock for 2 hours and then rest. When it’s almost time to eat, store it again. The water is almost dry, teacher u teach braised fish twice to be delicious. The piece of fish and bacon is only when eating the outer layer is dry and solid, but the bite is soft and the mouth is happy.” Reading the description of Ms. Trang, the food-loving women in the forum were all flustered by recalling the taste of childhood and homeland hidden in the taste of rustic dishes. “I don’t know if any of you sisters are like me, but fish braised with bananas, I prefer to eat bananas than fish, that’s all!”, Ms. Trang shared. Surely this is not only the hobby of each of Trang but also of the majority of women who are familiar with food. The banana pieces, when stocked with fish, are fully absorbed in the salty, sweet, and spicy flavors and add the fleshy, ringy taste of banana powder. Make sure that when you put a plate of braised fish with banana on the tray, the banana pieces are chosen first. Here is the secret to cooking fish with bananas Resources: Fish for stock: carp (perch, fish fruit) about 1kg; Green bananas: 4-5 fruits; Galangal: 1 small tuber; Ginger: 1 small branch; Dried onions: 2 bulbs; Fresh chili: 2-3 (depending on the spiciness); Bacon: 200-300 grams; Spices: seasoning seeds, soup powder, water or cooking oil, yellow apricot sugar, turmeric powder, delicious fish sauce Making: Step 1: Preliminarily cleaned fish, cut into bite-sized pieces Bacon just washed (can be blanched in boiling water), cut into bite-sized pieces. Step 2: Marinate bacon and fish with 3 teaspoons of soup powder, 2 teaspoons of seasoning powder, a little onion, minced galangal, turmeric, fish sauce. Let the fish infuse the spices for 30 minutes. Occasionally stir or shake the fish. Galangal, thinly sliced ​​ginger. Chili to the whole fruit or cut into small pieces (depending on the spiciness that adjusts). Step 3: How to beat the sugar: Put a little cooking oil in a pan, add 3-4 tablespoons of yellow apricot sugar, the sugar will turn yellow, turn off the stove, add a little white water to get the sugar water. Step 4: Wash green bananas, leave the green skin on the outside or remove the peel depending on your preference, cut the halves into bite-sized pieces. Step 5: Prepare a thick pot, the first layer of galangal, ginger to the bottom, followed by a layer of green bananas. After the fish is soaked in seasoning, place each piece on top of the banana layer, alternating with pieces of bacon. On the top layer, add a layer of bananas, put chili on top (if you like to eat more galangal, put a little more on top). Drizzle a few tablespoons of cooking oil or grease on top. Step 6: Pour the sugar water just won the pot of fish, add water to boil the fish, lower the heat and cook until the water runs out. Taste the seasoning again to taste but do not flip the fish, if the banana, meat, fish are not cooked but the fish pot has run out of water, add a little more water and simmer until the ingredients are soft and dry. . When the fish is close to being sprinkled with a few tablespoons of water or cooking oil on top to make the fish pot more beautiful and glossy. Turn off the stove to let the fish cool, when it’s time to eat, turn on the stove again for the fish to be hot and the water must be dry.

Ha Tang’s braised meat pot. The two main ingredients of Chinese braised meat include: pork and eggs. Ha Tang uses bacon, cut into chunks. Meat is both lean and fat, and the skin is thick and greasy. Next, the actress marinated the meat with all kinds of spices such as shallot, pepper, garlic, fish sauce, sugar, seasoning… for at least an hour to absorb. Cooking standard Chinese braised meat is not using cashew color or colored water, but it is necessary to beat white sugar to create the color of cockroach wings. Then, you add a little filtered water and then add the marinated meat and stir-fry to hunt again. Coconut water is an important ingredient, making the dish more delicious. Therefore, in the West, people call this dish braised meat with coconut water. When the meat is hunted, the broth is boiling, add fresh coconut water, continue to cook on low heat until it dries up, then add more coconut water. Normally, a pot of braised meat includes 500 grams of meat, 4 duck eggs should use a fresh coconut. Siamese coconut will be sweeter, fatter. Store the meat for many hours, until the stock is reduced, the water penetrates the meat layer in the pot, then you add eggs, cook for about 20 – 30 minutes and you’re done. You can choose chicken eggs, quail eggs according to your preferences, or duck eggs with many yolks and fat like Ha Tang’s. According to the Star

Ingredients of braised pork with pepper 300g pork belly
Red onion, garlic, chili, green onion
Water color
Spices: Pepper, sugar, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce How to make braised pork with pepper Daily delicacies: Braised pork with pepper. Buy meat, wash and cut into pieces. Red onion and garlic peeled, smashed, chopped. Scallions cut roots, wash and finely chop. Chilli washed, finely chopped.
If you don’t buy colored water, you can win by adding 3 tablespoons of sugar to the pot, turn on low heat, stir until the sugar turns brown, then add 1 cup of water, stir well. Continue stirring with your hands until the water is similar, then turn off the heat, let it cool, put in a separate bowl.
Put the sliced ​​meat in a marinated bowl with 1 teaspoon minced garlic, 1 teaspoon seasoning, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon fish sauce, 2 tablespoons color water, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and chili and mix well and marinate for about 30-60 minutes.
Put the pot on the stove, heat up 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, then put the marinated meat on the island with medium heat, and cook until the meat is hunted, then reduce the heat. Stir the meat until it thickens. If you like to eat water, you can add a little more water.
Braise until the gravy is thickened and the meat is hunted, sprinkle with pepper and then turn off the heat. Ladle the meat onto a plate sprinkled with green onions and enjoy.

Materials to prepare: – 700g young ribs sườn – 1 tablespoon cooking oil – 1 onion – 2 teaspoons ginger, cut into thin and long slices lát – 1 tablespoon soy sauce – 1 tablespoon finely chopped scallions – 3 tablespoons homemade black bean sauce How to make black bean sauce – 70g fermented black beans – 110ml cooking oil dầu – 1 stalk of scallions, finely chopped – 3 slices of ginger – teaspoon pepper – 3 tablespoons fresh chili, finely chopped – 2 tablespoons garlic, minced – 1 tablespoon soy sauce – 1 tablespoon rice wine – teaspoon sesame oil dầu – a pinch of sugar – a pinch of salt Doing: Make black bean sauce – Wash the black beans. Dry the black beans with kitchen paper. Cut the black beans into small pieces. – Turn on the stove. Put green onion, ginger and pepper in the pan. Pour in the oil and then keep the heat on medium. When the scallions and ginger turn brown, take them out, remove all the pepper and discard. – Put the fermented black beans and all the other ingredients for the sauce into the oil pan. Saute for about 2-3 minutes. Braised pork ribs – Put the ribs in a pot of cold water. Boil pot. Use a spatula to skim off the foam on the surface of the pot. Then pour the water in the pot. Pour the ribs into a clean bowl and set aside. – Pour oil into a clean pot. Put on medium heat. Fry onion and ginger until onion and ginger are soft. – Stir-fry the ribs. Add black bean sauce and soy sauce. Pour hot water into the pot (just enough to cover the ribs). Close the pot lid. Leave on low heat for 40 minutes. – Set the heat to high, then cook until the water in the pot is reduced by half and thickened. Stir-fry the scallions and then transfer the ribs to a plate. – Enjoy. Eat with hot rice. NOTE If you have leftover black bean sauce, you can store it in an airtight container and use it within 2 weeks. – If you want, you can use store-bought black bean sauce. You may need to adjust the amount of sauce to taste.

– Fresh mackerel: 500g – Pineapple (pineapple): 1/2 fruit Sugar: 3 full teaspoons (5ml spoon type) – Fish sauce: 2 tablespoons (15ml spoon type) – Salt seasoning: 1/2 teaspoon – Seasoning seeds: 1 teaspoon – Scallion (or fresh ginger leaves): several branches – Dried onion: 2 large bulbs; Dried garlic: 1 bulb – Fresh chili: 2 fruits (depending on whether you taste spicy or not) Whole-grain peppercorns (if any): 1 teaspoon. MAKING Step 1: Preliminary processing of raw materials – Clean mackerel, slice, and any large piece of fish can be cut into 2 or 3 parts for easy spice absorption. – Dried garlic onion, peeled, crushed, chopped. – Pineapple peeled, remove the eyes, cut into small pieces, size 5mm thick. Marinate the pineapple with seasoning powder for about 20 minutes to infuse. – Wash the scallion and cut into 2cm pieces (or fresh ginger leaves if washed and chopped). Step 2: Marinate the fish, make the water color (stock water) – Put the sugar in a small pot, put it on the stove, turn on the hot stove on medium heat, watch for the molten sugar and turn brown, then add about 100-150 ml of water, boil the sugar to melt. obtain colored water (also known as stock water). – Put the pan on the stove, add some cooking oil, turn on the hot stove and fry the fish until it is cooked, then brown the fish, then add the following ingredients to the fish: 1/2 of the crushed dried onions, fish sauce, seasoning salt, pepper. Marinate for about 20 minutes. Step 3: Fish warehouse Put the remaining 1/2 of the dried garlic onion in the pot used as a fish storage pot, put in a pot of 1 teaspoon of cooking oil, turn on the stove of garlic onion to fragrant, then place 1/3 of the pineapple on the bottom of the pot. Place the marinated mackerel pieces on top to put the fresh pineapple and chili pieces. Pour fish marinade and stock water for ginseng on the face of fish and pineapple, seasoned fish to taste and reduce salt sauce to taste, to open the pot on low medium heat until the fish is dry, sprinkle with green onion. (or fresh ginger leaves) on top, turn off the heat. Finished products : The mackerel is soft but not crushed, whole pieces, spice absorbent, not dry, not fishy, ​​the salty taste is mild, the smell of pineapple, the color is very attractive. Enjoy with delicious hot rice. A family of rice with mackerel, braised with pineapple, clam soup cooked with pineapple, clam with laksa leaves, and oyster soup with white rice. Good luck!

Braised potato bud is a traditional dish of the people.

Potato buds here are not sweet potato buds, but buds of varieties with vertical (some places also known as sheaths or sepals) such as yams, galangal potatoes, sweet potatoes, spotted potatoes … which are common in the village. Every countryside has it, easy to grow, easy to take care of, and has many economic benefits and values.

The tuber is used for boiling or stir-frying to make soup. Along the way, potatoes are used to raise pigs, they often eat quickly. And the potato buds (except for the speckled potato, which is a very itchy potato that few users use) bring the soy sauce warehouse for us to eat very delicious soup, with a strong flavor of the countryside.

Potato buds that are not available all year round are only seasonal and for a very short time. Potatoes are usually grown from November of the previous lunar year to May next year, then harvest. The time from when the potato grows to mid-April, the potato grows and gives birth, so it is not picking buds. It was not until early May 1-2 weeks before harvest that they picked potato buds to both feed and for the dwarf potatoes to focus on nourishing the fat tubers.

To have sweet and non-itchy sweet potato buds, from preparation to cooking operations must be very meticulous, careful and attentive. Experience when picking potato buds is to choose the leaf buds that are still tightly wrapped and then bring them out to dry in the light sun for a little re (usually picking in the early morning, drying at noon to cook).

Before cooking, wash it and then fold it into a clay pot in layers, on the bow spread a turn of copper crabs, peeling off the bib and muzzle. Take 2 bamboo cross-pinned crossbones on the top of the pot so that the buds are not inflated when they boil. Take a delicious scoop of soy sauce, dilute with water, add the potato buds and cook. When effervescent, pay attention to reduce the heat, only give effervescent five. Absolutely do not immerse the chopsticks.

Watching when the water in the pot is exhausted gradually, use a water bath to dilute it with water with a little more lard (called row water), sometimes using a scoop to water it gradually. Just boil it almost dry and water the goods in, doing so from 4 to 5 times is nine. At this time, you can take the chopsticks dipped in to check the light salinity to adjust to fit. Then, depending on the large or small soup pot, more or less, you can add 1 or 2 longitudinal fruits that have been cooked, wash off the shells, seeds, then strip on top and add a little more water to cook. shallow is fine.

Lift down the pot and open the pot to cool down. When using the pin to lift the chopsticks, carefully pick each potato bud in the bowl, it looks like each potato bud on the outside is still hunted, but the inside is softly ripe, giving off a sweet aroma of vertical, crab, sweetness and flavor. typical taste of copper potatoes, it is unforgettable to eat.