The way to make shrimp paste is quite rich, each locality has different recipes to suit the taste of the region. However, the processing method that we introduce below is suitable for many people. Meaty shrimp paste is a favorite dish of many people in the North. Let’s prepare the ingredients to make a very simple shrimp paste with meat: Prepared materials. – 300 g of ground lean shoulder meat – 2 lemongrass bulbs – 4 cloves of garlic – 1 dangerous chili – 2-3 spoons of shrimp paste noodle soup – 2 dried onions – A little sugar (if you like it sweet) – Cooking oil. How to make shrimp paste with meat 1. First, you take the lemongrass to wash and cut into pieces, remove the seeds, and peel the onion and garlic. Then put all the ingredients in a small blender. The first step of how to make shrimp paste with meat is to grind lemongrass, chili, onion and garlic. 2. Now, you turn on the stove, heat the non-stick pan (no need for cooking oil). Then, you add the minced meat and stir to evenly distribute the meat. Heat the stove on medium heat until the meat comes out of water and then cook until the meat juice dries up. Heat minced meat in a non-stick pan. 3. When the gravy in the pan is exhausted, add 3 tablespoons of cooking oil with the spices just ground above and stir well. Cook over medium heat until the meat is golden brown. Add cooking oil and seasoning until the meat is golden brown. 4. Now you add 2-3 tablespoons of shrimp paste to the meat. Put shrimp paste in the meat 5. You continue to keep the fire low. Stir well for meat to soak up shrimp paste for about 3-5 minutes. Cook until the meat is absorbed with the shrimp paste. Finished product Marinated shrimp paste with meat preserved in a glass jar and kept in the refrigerator, you can use it for 1 week – 10 days. This is not only a dish that brings rice, can be eaten all year round, but also very easy to make. It’s great to eat with hot rice. Shrimp sauce with meat gives you a dish with a rich sweet and salty taste of meat, combined with the characteristic aroma of shrimp paste and other spices that are extremely attractive. In the summer, just a plate of shrimp paste with a bowl of sour soup, you have a delicious meal. Cook until the meat is absorbed with the shrimp paste. In addition to how to make delicious minced shrimp paste above, you can refer to a few other dishes on Lamsao’s culinary section that are also extremely attractive for a meal:

In the culinary culture of Vietnamese people, boiled chicken and steamed chicken always occupy an important position. Dinners, parties at home and especially in the tray of offerings on holidays and Tet of every family cannot lack a plate of chicken. Here is how to steam and boil chicken chosen by many wise women: Steamed chicken with salt, lime leaves and lemongrass Experts point out, lemon leaves and lemongrass not only help boiled chicken have a characteristic aroma but also increase the attractiveness of chicken. In this method, you do not need to use water. Just wash the whole chicken, pound with salt, a little MSG and chili pepper and rub it around the chicken. Next, you put in the bottom of the pot a layer of granulated salt, followed by the whole tree cut into pieces, lemon leaves and the main ingredient that is chicken, the top layer you should add some lemon leaves and close the lid. You put on medium heat and steam for about 1 hour, so that the chicken is cooked quickly, you should not open the lid many times because it will reduce the temperature and steam when steaming. Steamed chicken with salt and lemon (Illustrated image) Boiled chicken with ginger and salt Instructions: You clean the chicken with water and gently rub the whole chicken with granulated salt and wait for about 2-3 minutes and rinse with clean water. You put the chicken in the pot, then add water about of the chicken (it is recommended to use hot water to help the chicken skin to be hunted and increase its toughness and delicious), add a few slices of ginger, a little salt in the pot to give the sweetness of the chicken chicken. Finally, bring the heat to a boil, then reduce the heat to low until the chicken is cooked gradually in about 10-15 minutes. After the chicken is cooked, turn off the heat and leave the chicken in the pot for another 5-10 minutes for the chicken to absorb the flavor. Finally you can take the chicken out to drain. Boiled salted ginger chicken is a favorite dish of many people (Illustration image) How to choose good chicken to boil: – The beak is sharp, there is no viscous flow in the beak. – Feather lines see thin, soft, shiny chicken skin; There are some large yellow streaks under the breast, wings. Through the skin, you can see the flesh and blood in the armpits, under the wings because the skin has no fat – The anus is pink, flashing, has good contractions, no wet, watery or abnormal stools. – When choosing chickens, you should stand far away before approaching. Because looking from a distance, seeing chickens with eyes open, bright eyes are usually healthy chickens. Approaching, the chicken seller shakes his hand or shakes the cage, the chicken will open its eyes. – When approaching, touch the chicken kite not too full, too hungry, chicken droppings like snails, crest should be red, erect, chest firm, no wheezing. The yellower and brighter the feathers, the yellower the skin and the better the chicken. – Flip the wings and check carefully under the armpit, if the chicken is injected with water, there will be a small red dot. Around the water stain the room up is black. For a while, the black color will spread widely. – A delicious chicken usually has a red crest, looks healthy and agile. Chickens must look healthy and agile. The crest must be bright red, the eyes are flexible, not lethargic. The fur is smooth, close to the body. Xiao Chien (Synthetic)

Illustration. Image source: Internet Resources: Cod fish: 300gr Tomatoes: 2 Pineapple: 1/2 fruit, onion, ginger, garlic, spring onion, dill Seasoning, chicken seasoning, soup powder, pepper, cooking oil, MSG (if you like) Served with raw vegetables Wash the fish with dilute salt water. Marinate the fish with a little seasoning, pepper with a few slices of chili pepper. Onions and garlic, peeled and chopped. Tomatoes add areca zone. Onion, dill washed, chopped, pineapple thinly sliced ​​to taste. Raw vegetables, banana flowers are washed and soaked in water for about 20 minutes, then drained. Saute garlic and onions, add tomatoes and cook until soft, season with ½ teaspoon of soup powder. Next, stir in the pineapple. Pour enough water into the pot and bring to a boil. When the pot is boiling, drop the fish in. Season to taste, turn down the stove to cook until the fish is cooked. Finally, add some dill, finely chopped scallions and 1 tablespoon of the main noodles. Season with chicken seasoning to taste, sprinkle with finely chopped onions and dill. Ladle fish soup into a large bowl, serve hot with raw vegetables and rice. Fried fish Illustration. Image source: Internet Resources: Pangasius 400 gr Pepper, seasoning powder, soup powder. Making: Mix all the above ingredients together, add a little cornstarch (or deep-fried flour) to make the dough sticky. Shape this mixture into bite-sized patties. Put the pan on the stove, add cooking oil to heat, then put each fish ball in and fry on medium heat until golden brown on both sides. Although the fish is small, soft and boneless, when cooked, the fish cake is very tough without being mushy. Place fried fish on a plate, dip it with fish sauce mixed with lemon, garlic, chili and add a little ground pepper. The aroma, sweet, chewy, hunting, not fishy, ​​of the soft fish meat melts in the mouth, and cannot refuse! Salmon roll with guise leaves Illustration. Image source: Internet Resources: 300g of fish 150g minced pork 2 bunches of guise leaves 1 dried onion, a little green onion Seasoning: 2 tablespoons delicious fish sauce, fried oil dầu Making: Prepare 3 bay leaves, 2 scallions, 1 onion, washed and finely chopped and mixed with fish and minced meat and seasoned with delicious fish sauce. Marinate the mixture for 5 to 10 minutes. We cut the leaves into 3 pieces (about 3cm across). Arrange a turn of fish on the bottom, put the mixture in the middle and continue to arrange a turn of fish on top and roll. Prepare a frying pan with oil and gently fry the fried fish pieces in the oil. When the fish cakes are cooked to golden brown on both sides, remove to a plate to drain the oil and enjoy while still hot.

Last year, Le Thuy flooded, the water was immense, fish, shrimp, and alluvium also followed the water and stayed in the fields. After the flood, the land is fertile, most of the crops grown down are green. I remember when I went back to my hometown after Tet, I went to the market to buy a bunch of big, young green cabbage that was delicious to the eyes, but had 2,000 VND. Buying 10,000 cucumbers, the old lady selling melons filled a basket. I said : – Your teeth give a lot? She laughs: -Like I sold it, one day she sold nearly 1 basket but got 6,000.. The immense rice fields in the countryside this year also have a good harvest, a yellow color stretching to the foot of the distant mountain. The rice heads bowed heavily, covering the whole road separating the fields. The wind about the rice waves keeps undulating, it feels like standing in front of the sea but the waves are peaceful and golden. In my hometown, many houses still keep the new custom of offering rice. Every season of ripe rice, people reap the first field, after threshing (previously using human power or cattle to pedal, later with a continuous harvester, only packed grain rice was brought back). let the rice dry in the sun. Select the field with good rice varieties, then threshing and drying separately. When the rice is dried (in the sun and dry enough for long-term storage), it is milled, pounded, gradually, sieved (later milled by machine), giving white rice grains. Use that rice to wash with clear stone well water and then blow the rice with a wood stove. You have to be careful with the fire so that the top rice grains are white and fragrant, and the bottom is just scorched yellow. Choose a young hen to start jumping (the new hens begin to lay the first eggs), at this time there have been a few thunderstorms at the beginning of the season, when it rains, the termites fly out, the villagers are used to thunderstorms. When I see termites flying out, I know that after 5 to 10 minutes, it will stop raining. The termites flew out, met the wet rain, swooped down to the ground, lost their wings and ran away like small round meatballs. Chickens eat that termite, the meat is fragrant and golden. A new tray of rice is placed to worship heaven and earth, the gods, the ancestors only have a large plate of white new rice mixed with pieces of yellow burnt rice, on top of which is left over a fertile yellow boiled hen and a A plate of crushed roasted seeds with chili peppers accompanied by 1 lemon cut in half. The owner lights 3 incense sticks to pray to Heaven, Earth, Gods, and Ancestors to come back to eat a new meal, to bless and protect the whole family for a year of peace, a bountiful and prosperous next season. Looking at the new tray of rice, though simple but full of herbs, farmers still tell each other that when making new rice, people must be clean and clean in their thoughts, and the mind must be good to cook a full fragrant, boiled meal. The hen is brightly colored and neatly shaped. Old farmers looking at the tray of rice can know the happiness of the house, know if the next year’s crop is better or worse. With the new tray of rice used for offerings, the elderly eat first, then the people who work in the fields have the most merit, then divide it among the children and divide it equally among all members of the family. have his share. Fresh and fragrant rice, sweet and fatty chicken pieces, roasted salt seeds pounded with hot, spicy chili peppers, crispy golden pieces call back a whole heaven of memories of the new rice seasons that have passed in life. In the new meal, family members remind about the lost family members, those who are far away from home… So many people keep holding a bowl of rice and remember to eat. My family also grows rice, so since I was young, I always eat new rice. Eat from when you know how to eat, from the time when your grandparents are still there until your grandparents return to the crane world in turn. Every new rice season, I try to arrange to bring my baby home. Show me the ripe rice season, let me know my hometown. My father sometimes asked his grandchildren to burn incense on the ancestral altar during the new meal, without a word of instruction, the children just followed, but now everyone knows how to light incense sticks straight, not letting the incense fall go out. The children always know how old their great-grandparents died, who went away in the family, who died… I remember that every year when we offer new rice, we share our chicken meat with our children. Ma said: – Ma doesn’t like chicken, I hate eating chicken… The chicken was delicious, but there was little, so the kids were very happy, and saved for a bigger piece compared to each other. Later, when I grew up, I knew how to give a little bit of delicious fat to my children. My health is not good, or I am sick. Every time the plating hurts, the kids often cook chicken porridge for the plating. Ma only eats porridge with water. Chicken doesn’t really like to eat now because it’s old now, has weak teeth, and hates eating chicken because it has teeth. I just wish, if there is no disease, I will take my children home. In the middle of the field, stop and fill your chest with the new scent of rice. And come back to eat new rice. New rice for me now is also eating, remembering… eating love…

You can add this nutrient-rich food to your daily meal with spicy fried calamari. In addition to eating with rice, this is also an extremely mouth-watering snack, a “drinking bait” that cannot be better for husbands. How to make spicy fried calamari is not difficult. Resources: – 500 gr of ready-made scad fish thác – Green onions, purple onions – Horny chili, hot chili -Condiments: Sugar, pepper, seasoning Processing: – Onions washed and cut into small pieces. – Red onion peeled, smashed, minced. – Put the fish meat in a bowl with 1 tablespoon seasoning, 1 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon red onion, 1 tablespoon green onion, minced garlic, 1/2 teaspoon minced chili and then use a spoon several times for the fish cake to absorb the seasoning, chewier and more delicious. -After the fish is finely fried, roll the ball and then flatten it, put it on a plate to prepare for frying. Note that you should apply a thin layer of oil on your palm so that when you roll the fish ball, it will not stick to your hand. – Heat oil on medium heat. When the oil is hot, put the fish cakes in and fry them until golden on both sides. When frying, it should be turned over often to cook the fish evenly and not burn. When cooked, remove to a plate lined with paper towels to absorb oil. Fried calamari, hot and spicy, with a characteristic aroma, served with chili sauce, you just want to eat it non-stop. Minh Hoa (th)