Bitter melon is a fruit that, although not beautiful in appearance, is extremely nutritious. Bitter melon can be refrigerated and then eaten raw directly with very attractive, can be steamed, fried, cooked in soup… in which stir-fry is the most popular. However, not everyone dares to eat bitter melon because the bitter taste of melon causes an unpleasant feeling. Moreover, bitter melon is not easy to stir-fry, although the frying time is fast, if you don’t know how, it will make the melon soft and lose its original green color. So how to keep the crispiness of the melon, the beautiful green color and eliminate the bitter taste of the melon after stir-frying? Some people think that blanching bitter melon before stir-frying will reduce the bitter taste, but just blanching is sour enough, needing to take another step. Some people say, you should soak the melon with salt water before cooking. But we also know that salt has a very strong dehydrating ability, if you soak bitter melon with salt first, it can indeed reduce the water in the melon and remove a small part of the bitterness. But this will also make the bitter gourd lose its crispy taste, when eating the melon it will be a bit mushy. Long-time chefs share their experience, it is not difficult to process fried bitter melon with little bitterness. You can refer to the following tips: First, when buying melon, it is necessary to wash it with clean water to remove dirt on the surface of the fruit. Then use a knife to cut off the two ends, cut / remove the intestines of the loofah. Use a spoon to scrape out the white part of the bitter gourd. This white part is the cause of the bitter taste of the melon. At this time, use a knife to cut bitter melon into thin and even slices. Put bitter melon in a large bowl, add a moderate amount of sugar, stir well and marinate for about 20 minutes. When the time is up, wash the bitter melon twice with clean water. Next, pour a sufficient amount of water into the pot, turn on the heat and bring to a boil, add bitter melon to blanch quickly, blanch until the melon turns dark green, then immediately take it out and drain. Pour a little cooking oil into the pot, turn on the stove to high heat, add minced onion and garlic and fry until fragrant. Then add bitter melon and stir-fry on high heat, stir quickly. Add a little salt and seasoning powder (optional) to taste and then turn off the heat. Only stir-fry the melon for about 2-3 minutes to keep its crisp, beautiful green color, if it takes a long time to cook, the melon loses its color and becomes soft and not delicious. So when stir-frying bitter melon, you only need to remember 2 important steps, which is marinating sugar with melon. Sugar has a weaker dehydrating property (removing water from the fruit) than salt, will not soften bitter gourd, and can remove the bitter taste. Moreover, marinating sugar makes bitter melon more crispy. The second step is that after washing, it is necessary to blanch the melon, the bitter melon is both green and crispy, the bitterness is reduced again. Good luck!

How to choose delicious, standard lychee In order to choose good quality lychees, first of all, you must choose fresh fruits with branches that stick to the fruit and the leaves are still green. The branches of the lychee are small and flexible. Avoid buying fruits with brown spots (bruises) on the stem, they should not be bought because such fruits are prone to head worms. Ripe litchi has red-pink skin, round fruits, smooth spines. When touching the fruit, it must be soft but elastic, showing that the fabric is still fresh. If the lychee is soft and not elastic, it means that the fruit is overripe and not delicious to eat. If the good lychee will have a fragrance, you should peel 1-2 lychees to taste, lychee has thick pulp, small seeds and sweeter taste than hybrid lychee. How to make sugar soaked fabric How to soak your lychee Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen (living in Da Nang) is very simple, lychee meat absorbs sugar, cool but still retains the crispiness of the lychee. Ingredients for soaking 1 kg of sugar lychee: – 2 kg of fresh lychee – 800 ml of water – 600 gr of rock sugar (white sugar, jaggery) – 1 pinch of salt – Glass or porcelain jars for storage. Making Step 1: Buy lychee, cut the stalk, then wash and separate the seeds. Mix a basin of clean water with a little salt, separate where to soak the cloth to avoid darkening. After separating, rinse with clean water to reduce the salty taste, then drain. Step 2: Put 800 ml of water and sugar into the pot, stir until the sugar dissolves, then turn on the stove to boil the sugar water, then add the lychee. Wait for it to boil for 3 minutes. Step 3: Take a clean jar and put the pre-processed cloth into the jar, pour the sugar water into the jar and close the lid and wait for the cloth jar to cool completely and then put it in the refrigerator. Note: – Cloth canned as above can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 month. When needed, just open the jar and you have cool cloth water to use. When eating, scoop out the cup, break the ice, put it in. You can make tea and then add a few soaked cloths, the lychee is sweet and still retains its crispiness, the lychee juice is soaked with lychee flavor. Good luck!

Choose really fresh shrimp, wash thoroughly with water, then use scissors to cut off the antennae and the sharp tip of the shrimp. With large shrimp, you should proceed to withdraw only to clean and hygienic shrimp. Then, put the shrimp in a bowl with a little salt and shake well, leave for about 10 minutes to eliminate the fishy smell of the shrimp. Spices for roasting shrimp Only marinate shrimp with salt, absolutely do not use fish sauce to roast shrimp In addition to salt, sugar, and main noodles, dried onions and green onions are two spices that need to be prepared to roast shrimp. Dried onions are both marinated and fragrant before roasting to help the shrimp smell better. Meanwhile, chopped scallions are added last before roasting to help make the color beautiful and look more attractive. When roasting shrimp, absolutely do not use fish sauce because they both cause the shrimp to release a lot of water and affect the sweetness of the shrimp. In addition, you need to prepare more lemon leaves to add at the end. For beautiful red shrimp Hang water (distilled sugar water) will help red shrimp look beautiful The trick here is that you use water. Put the pan on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and heat until the sugar dissolves and turns yellow, then add 2 tablespoons of hot water, stir, bring to a boil, then turn off the heat. When the roasted shrimp has turned pink, you taste the seasoning and add this cup of water. You should cook the water a little thick to avoid too much water when put in the pot of roasted shrimp. So shrimp is both easy to color and quick to dry. Note that because this product is already available, you do not need to add sugar even when marinating the shrimp. Let the shrimp dry Roasted shrimp still have water secreted from the inside of the shrimp, making them wet, losing their crispiness and especially being very fishy. Therefore, to meet the requirements of roasting shrimp, the shrimp must be dry, and there is no water secreted in the shrimp body. The secret to doing this is that when marinating shrimp, you only marinate with salt, not fish sauce, which will make shrimp more watery. After marinating the shrimp, you put it in a pot and heat it up. When cooked, the shrimp will be a lot of water, you need to boil the water and then pour the shrimp out on a plate. This method helps the shrimp to drain the water and become dry, not fishy. Then fry the onions until fragrant and then fry the shrimp as usual. Continue to stir the shrimp over medium heat to dry the shrimp. During this stage and throughout the roasting process later, you should open the lid of the pot to quickly drain the water and create the necessary dryness. Pay attention to the fire when roasting shrimp Initially, when the shrimp is full of water, you need to heat it up very high to quickly drain the water. Then you bring the fire to a moderate level. If the fire is too high, the shrimp will easily burn, but if the fire is too low, the shrimp will become soft and lose the necessary crispness. Let the roasted shrimp smell attractive Sprinkle with lemon leaves and finely chopped scallions when the stove is turned off to help the shrimp smell better Frying the onion and adding the shrimp, stirring the shrimp over the heat until the shrimp are completely drained are important steps to ensure that the shrimp are roasted properly. But for shrimp to smell attractive, the secret for you is to add finely chopped lemon leaves. You may be surprised, but not only chicken, roasted shrimp also go well with the passionate aroma of lemon leaves. Note that you should only add the lemon leaves last and turn off the heat, so that the lemon leaves will smell good and not be bitter. KN (th)

Notably, this green fruit is also extremely expensive, up to 480,000-650,000 VND/kg. Ms. Nguyen Hong Hanh – a focal point selling fruit in Ho Chi Minh City, said that ripe mangosteen is familiar to many people. But few people know that the green mangosteen is still a rare specialty dish, because the collection and preliminary processing takes a lot of effort. Moreover, because there is only one season each year, the price of this fruit is not cheap. Therefore, every year in the season, Hanh also takes mangosteen in Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, … to sell. Both green and ripe mangosteen are available. Green mangosteen – a southern product that is more expensive than ripe mangosteen (photo: NT) With unpeeled green mangosteen, she is selling from 80,000-95,000 VND/kg. Particularly, peeled mangosteen is extremely expensive, up to 550,000 VND/kg. Because, it takes about 4-5kg of fruit to get 1kg of intestine, not to mention the peeling time also takes up to 1.5-2 hours. Green mangosteen pulp is often used to make salads. Because the fruit is still green, the skin is quite hard and has a lot of latex, if the buyer does not know how to prepare it, the mangosteen will be black, eating acrid. Therefore, she often peels it for customers to buy and process it and preserve it for longer. To make a delicious salad, according to Ms. Hanh, do not choose young or overripe fruit, but must choose those with green skin but old enough, the skin has a tan that is ripe enough, the mangosteen flesh inside will be crispy. Sweet, moderately sour, firm, with a strange acrid taste. In particular, when picking the fruit, it must be peeled and preserved immediately, if left 1-2 days late, the mangosteen will not be able to make salad. “This year, the mangosteen crop failed, so every day I only picked 30-40kg of green mangosteen. Customers who want to buy ready-made peeled fruits must order 1-2 days in advance, I mobilized family members to peel them in time. As a matter of fact, there was a time when I sold a few quintals of this type of mangosteen,” said Hanh. Green mangosteen flesh costs over half a million dong/kg (photo: NT) Ms. Tran Thi Hien – the focal point of selling mangosteen in Binh Duong – shared that mangosteen is grown in many localities, but the most famous delicious is Binh Duong mangosteen. This is also the place where the chicken mangosteen salad is strange, anyone who eats it once will always remember it forever. Because there is only one season each year, lasting from May to the end of June, many people take advantage of this time to order to enjoy the best green mangosteen. Ms. Hien said that the preliminary processing of green mangosteen is very elaborate because the skin is hard, easy to drain, and harder to peel than ripe mangosteen. So, just peel and wash under the tap to remove the pus. The processor must be skillful, otherwise the mangosteen will be crushed, not keeping the whiteness. While ripe mangosteen prices range from 70,000-80,000 VND/kg, pre-cut green mangosteen costs up to 480,000-650,000 VND/kg depending on the time. Even at the beginning of the fruit season, there was not much fruit, the price of mangosteen guts peaked to about 800,000 VND/kg, but there were still no goods for sale. Green mangosteen is used to make salad, but it is not always available to buy and eat (photo: NT) “Every day, I collect 15-20kg of mangosteen intestines, no matter where I peel, customers will order there, so the goods always keep their freshness and crispiness. It is estimated that I can sell about 1 quintal of mangosteen/day,” said Hien. Because it is quite expensive, people often buy 0.5-1kg of fruit pulp or buy 2-4kg of unpeeled fruit. Many guests from the North want to enjoy this specialty, she has to peel it and then send the plane out. Because if you leave the skin of the fruit, it will ripen quickly, lose the crispness and deliciousness characteristic of green mangosteen. Having enjoyed the mangosteen chicken salad for the first time during his trip to Binh Duong 2 years ago, Mr. Le Quang Chien from Duy Tan (Cau Giay, Hanoi) admitted: “The sour, sweet, and acrid taste of mangosteen has ended. Combined with salad dressing and sweet chicken meat, it is quite strange to eat, creating an unforgettable flavor. Since then, every time when mangosteen season comes, I ask my friends in it to send it out as a drink for guests.” However, in order to choose delicious green mangosteen fruits, he must order 2-3 days in advance to have them with extremely expensive prices, up to 600,000 VND/kg of mangosteen flesh. Therefore, each season he only dares to order 2-4kg of green mangosteen to spend with guests, called to enjoy a bit of Southern specialties, Mr. Chien shared.

Spinach dish has a cooling effect on hot summer days. PHOTO: SMALL She said, every morning or evening, when the tide recedes, people on the island bring baskets and sickles to rake and cut spinach to bring back to prepare food or sell. In order to have a delicious cup of spinach, she cooks it very meticulously. My grandfather used to say that summer is sweeter and cooler when enjoying her richly flavored jelly. Before cooking, she soaked the jelly, then washed and added a little lemon to deodorize, then rinsed with water. She shared, if the discharge is not clean, the smell of seaweed remains, making the taste of the jelly not delicious. She put the jelly into the pot, poured the ginseng water into the pot, brought it to a boil, about fifteen minutes, put the golden brown sugar and ginger in it and stirred it, when the vegetables were cooked, turn off the stove. When cooking, you have to work hard to watch the fire so that the jelly fibers are not overcooked to keep the crispy and delicious. After cooking, pour the jelly into a bowl to cool, the jelly will solidify into a jelly. Her spinach jelly has an extremely eye-catching yellow color, and there are small strands of ginger on the top of the cup. The jelly is crispy and has a sweet taste with the aroma of ginger. I also don’t remember the first time I ate the jelly that she cooked, only knowing that it was the jelly that followed me throughout my childhood years. When I go to school away from home, she cooks jelly and sends it as a gift, a gift that encapsulates all the love and taste of home. Now, I sometimes visit the market to buy dried seaweed to cook. Enjoying the spinach jelly, I miss my grandma, I miss my childhood memories.

Now there is fried rice, fried rice rolls, fried rice soup, and a half-baked fried rice, fish sauce and noodles … Now there is also fried sticky rice, also known as fried sticky rice, just as unique and delicious as other fried dishes . Luoi mainly exists in the North, so of course when it comes to something from it, people will immediately think of Hanoi or neighboring places. (Photo: Internet) However, this fried sticky rice dish is not popular in Hanoi, there is not even a place to sell, but currently it is only sold much in Hai Phong. Back to Hai Phong, you may be directed to many different places to sell fried sticky rice, but most people will immediately think of fried sticky rice with many other dishes from fried rice at 100 Lan Be. At first glance, this sticky rice dish is no different than the usual fried sticky rice. (Photo: Internet) Sticky rice is made into palm-sized pieces, flattened, then fried in golden brown, crispy with the outer crust. Sticky sticky rice is still moderately thick, although the outer shell has become golden and crispy, the inside is still white and fragrant with sticky rice flavor. When the sticky rice is wrapped in the fried rice, it can be clearly seen to be crunchy, and the filling is very strange to eat. (Photo: Internet) However, the special feature lies in the core part, also considered the “most valuable” part of the sticky rice, that is the fried rice. Pre-processed, mixed with minced meat and spices to soak in so that when you eat the sticky rice, you will still have a little fragrance. Part of the filling consists of fried meat mixed with spices to create an attractive flavor, which is rare for any sticky rice dish to have. (Photo: Internet) Especially not to mention the dot sauce created by the official. According to the owner of the shop, this dipping sauce is made from onions and some other spices mixed together and then distilled according to their own recipe. Although it looks a bit unattractive, but this sauce served with fried sticky rice is extremely delicious. The dipping sauce looks fancy but combined with fried sticky rice is extremely delicious. (Photo: Internet) The minor minus point is that because the kernel is a bit small, so the taste of the fruit can hardly be perceived. And especially if the sticky rice is a little thicker to make the sticky rice more sticky, the sticky rice will taste better. Just spend about 10,000 VND but enjoy this precious specialty, do not forget to try fried sticky rice with fried rice if you have the opportunity to come to Hai Phong.

Grilled snail with pepper Just add spices, green pepper and then bake directly on a charcoal fire. When the passionate aroma spreads, it is also the time when the snail hunts the meat again, so it makes people feel sick to enjoy it right away. Impressive dishes with a strong, indescribable taste Just put it into your mouth, the spicy taste spreads to evoke each senses, and then the more you chew the meat, the more you will rub it with the delicate crispy sweetness. Grilled snail with pepper is present in the menu of popular snail shops in Saigon, this dish is either eaten or used as a “target”. Photo: Internet For those who have a strong passion for snails, surely it is impossible to miss this popular spicy roasted snail. (Photo: Internet) Bun rieu snail From the ingredients of the countryside such as crab, blood, tofu, pork rolls, snails … people have cleverly combined to create a bowl of vermicelli with a strong and attractive aroma. If the northern vermicelli in favor of the sweetness from bone broth, the southerners will be in harmony with the sour, sweet and salty. In addition to the highlight is the fatty crab pieces, the snail also contributes to the fresh, crispy sweetness, the more you chew it, the more you like it. The scent of the broth, the ingredients, spreads out in a seductive light. Depending on your preference, you can add some fish sauce, squeeze the lemon slices to add full flavor to the dish. Photo: Internet Bun rieu snail has a rustic and simple taste, but anyone who once enjoy it must pamper. (Photo: Internet) Snail stuffed with meat The snails are mixed with minced meat, carpentry, lemongrass, spices …, cleverly stuffed into the shell and then steamed. When ripe, the scent of each ingredient fuses together to arouse all of the diners’ senses. The meat-stuffed snail dish will be more rounded if there is an extra bowl of the numbing ginger fish sauce. A little spicy of lemongrass is mixed in the fatty fat of meat, the more you chew the crispy snail, the sweetness will come, making people crave food forever. On cool nights like this, trying to squeeze a few snails stuffed with meat is nothing more perfect. Photo: Internet Although it sounds popular, but snail stuffed with meat is the dish that makes people “addicted” right from the first time. (Photo: Internet)

Shrimp sauce is one of the typical dishes of Western people, never absent from simple and rustic meals. The typical taste of the western shrimp sauce is different from that of any other region. The sweetness of Bac Dat Mekong River shrimp together with the crispness of the western platypus has created an unforgettable taste. Fish sauce served with white rice, boiled meat, boiled vegetables, … or banh tet, banh chung, … creates a unique resonance, remembering it forever for the first time. Aunt Tu Co fish sauce was born from Aunt Tu Co’s passion for cooking with family members. I got up at 5 a.m. to go to the market to buy the live Bac Dat shrimp, and picked each papaya by hand. I did all the steps myself because she said: “ The papaya should be well-sliced, otherwise it won’t be crunchy. Fish sauce must soak at the right time or else there will be no meat left. ” This is a homemade dish that does not use borax, colorants or preservatives, but only contains memories of the countryside, the simple meals that gather with the family. Posts: : Nice News

When buying apples to choose a delicious apple, you should only choose a medium sized apple, slightly larger than her ball. When you eat an apple that is too big or small, it’s not good. Because apples that are too large can be sprayed with growth stimulants, apples that are too small are often sour or overripe when eaten, resulting in poor taste and illness.

Fruit shape

You should choose apples that are round, even, firm and heavy-handed, these apples will give more delicious juice than usual.

When buying, you should choose an apple with no or very few scratches due to the impact, no bruises due to the impact of much transport, dropping the apple, making the apple less delicious.

Delicious apples are not porous

Observe the pods

Wise housewives, when buying apples, often pay close attention to the apple peel. You should choose to buy apples that are fresh in color, the skin of these apples will be more delicious. Stretched apples are usually more succulent than apples when they are touched and a clumpy feel.

If you are a fan of sweet apples, choose a darker fruit with small white seeds on the skin. Avoid dull, dark, crushed, or pests apples.

Smell the apple

When you buy apples, you want to know if the apple is delicious or not you need to try to smell the apple. If the apple is ripe and delicious, it usually smells very delicious when eaten. Unripe apples are less flavorful and will often have a sour taste and are less likely to taste bitter.

Delicious apples often stretch the hand

Check the apple’s crispness

To check the crispness of the apple, use your finger to gently press the apple to see if it is firm or soft.

You should not buy apples with a lot of blemishes because when eating apples are not sweet and the apple is fluffy.