Many women have the habit of blanching beef in boiling water first before stewing. However, this is not the right way to do it. If you want delicious beef, you just need to remember the following 3 steps, the meat will be soft, not fishy and not degraded. The first step: the beef needs to be soaked in water for half an hour. At this time, fresh beef often has a lot of blood, it is best to cut it into large pieces and then soak in clean water. This process can remove the blood, making the beef stew less fishy. Step 2: Prepare a pot of water, add beef with cooking wine. Note, do not use hot water for blanching, the correct method is to use cold water to slowly heat the meat. This not only does not reduce the quality of the meat, but also helps to remove impurities and excess blood. Therefore, this step is extremely important and must not be skipped. Cooking wine has the effect of deodorizing the fishy smell of beef effectively. Blanch beef in water should not be too long, about 1 minute at most. Step 3: During the stewing process, only a sufficient amount of water should be added, not halfway, after that, add various spices, especially vinegar. Beef itself has many tendons, thick meat, adding vinegar will help stew beef more tender, very easy to eat. After high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 1 and a half hours. Beef should be put on low heat until the beef is tender. If you have a pressure cooker, you can save time, cooking for 20 minutes is enough. To enhance the taste of beef, you can also add potatoes or white radish, it can also make beef more delicious.

Sugar should never be omitted when marinating meat, that’s what you need to remember. Usually when marinating meat, we only care so that the meat is rich and fragrant. So what you are interested in is salt, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, and sugar, depending on the dish or as you like. However, few people know that sugar not only helps balance the spices, but also makes each piece of meat sweeter. Therefore, add sugar to marinated meat dishes to make it more delicious. Of course, in addition to sugar, don’t forget MSG, seasoning, which helps to neutralize the seasoning and also makes the meat more sweet and rich. Try to marinate enough time for the sugar to soak into every fiber of the meat. Marinated with beer Beef, pork, after being cut into bite-sized pieces and marinated with spices, you put in a little beer, leave it for a few minutes before stir-frying. In this way, fried, braised, grilled or stewed meat will be softer, more fragrant and especially sweeter. For chicken, after cleaning, you soak the chicken with water mixed with beer for 20 minutes, then steam or boil, the chicken will also be more fragrant and sweet. For braised and braised pork dishes, after cooking for meat, instead of using water to pour ginseng on the meat, you should use beer. This will help the pieces of meat become more fragrant, more attractive and even sweeter. Do not cook the meat too thoroughly Overcooking causes the meat to release a lot of water, the fibers are dry, fibrous and the meat loses its inherent sweetness. Therefore, when stir-frying, boiling meat, you should only cook until cooked. How long is the cooking time of meats to ensure that the meat is cooked enough but still safe? You can refer to the standard time as follows: – For pork: Boil or braise meat 20-25 minutes; Fry the meat for 10 minutes on each side; Stir fry meat for 5-7 minutes. Note: For stir-fry dishes, usually you will stir-fry the pork first, then pour in vegetables or other dishes. If the cooking time of these ingredients is too long, you can stir-fry the cooked meat first and then transfer it to a plate. Continue to stir-fry other ingredients until almost cooked, then pour in the pork. This way you usually apply with beef, but pork is also recommended. For chicken: Boiled chicken for 15-20 minutes, simmering and turning off the heat to braise for 10-15 minutes can take it out. Braised chicken requires 10-15 minutes. – For beef: Stir-fried beef for 3-5 minutes is poured into a plate, braised beef is soft for 20-25 minutes. Stir-fry/stock with vegetables with sweetness Carrots, mushrooms, onions, young corn, sugarcane, white radish, pineapple… are vegetables that have a sweet taste, during the cooking process, they will release sweetness into the water and so the pieces of meat cooked together will become should taste better. Therefore, when cooking meat with many other ingredients, you should choose at least one ingredient with sweetness to make the meat more juicy. For dishes that need more time to cook, such as stewed stock, you should apply this trick to make the dish rich and attractive. KN (th)

On average, a bowl of banh chung here is about VND 40,000 to VND 100,000, the special part of whole cake can be up to more than 200,000 VND, making many people “terrible”. This is also the legendary bowl of banh chung that Saigon’s playboys often whisper to each other. According to many diners, the quality of the food here is very good, the crab ingredients are inherently expensive, carefully selected, so the price of 220,000 – 240,000 VND is acceptable. Especially when the bowl of banh chung is full, with the attractive red crab displayed, it is difficult for anyone to hold back. However, this giant bowl of banh chung is not sold much. Most customers come to the shop to choose a small portion for less than 100,000 VND, which is affordable and healthy, with the crab meat being separated. “Currently, the most consistent bowl of Banh Canh I sell for only 100,000 VND/big bowl including spring rolls, meat, pork loin and crab pieces (half of a fish with the shell intact). And the bowl of banh cano costs 240,000 VND, which is very rare. Selling at those prices every day must be too cheap because of the popular soup cake,” said Ms. Phuong. Each fiber of soft white crab meat brings the typical fresh and sweet taste of seafood mixed with hot, fragrant soup. The tough, chewy bread is evenly absorbed in the broth, making it difficult for anyone to resist. The accompaniments such as pork rolls, fish balls are quite good quality when the big, meat-filled pieces are simmered very easily. Cha fish is very sweet and when eaten, it feels like authentic fish meat, not mixed with too much flour like some places still sell. You can order a normal portion without crab but only fish cakes, spring rolls, crab meat with prices ranging from 40,000-80,000 VND. This is a very reasonable price for such a “full” serving. However, the minus point is that the shop is on the sidewalk, quite hot in the summer Saigon weather. With such a location and price, it will be difficult to satisfy fastidious diners. (According to GiadinhNet)

Crayfish usually live in bays and calm seas, can be caught in Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, and Phu Yen. This fish grows slowly and catches very little, so it is always considered a rare specialty that is not easy to enjoy. The meat of the cod fish is very special, white like chicken, only the backbone and no bones. This fish is firm, not fishy, ​​sweet. The meat is not only tough but also fatty, so it is loved by many diners. Cabbage is often processed into many different delicious dishes such as grilled with salt and pepper, steamed, grilled, porridge, soup, deep fried… Due to the fact that the body of the cod fish is full of white meat, not fishy, ​​chewy and delicious like chicken, it is also known as saltwater chicken. Species in the fish family have the ability to secrete surfactants through their skin. This is a chemical defense mechanism. Because of its thick scales, small fins and tail, the boarfish swims slowly. The body of the fish is almost immobile, so the weight is placed on both the tail and the fins. Its swimming form is considered quite funny. One reason that bony fish is such a rare specialty is that it takes about 2.5 years to reach adult size. Overfishing is also making this species almost extinct in some localities.

When eating a squeezed lemon, then put it in the dipped rice paper, add raw vegetables including vegetables such as: bananas, dill, herbs, lettuce and some sweet and sour mango fibers … Water Undeniably, soya sauce is mixed with lemongrass chili and spicy garlic and fragrant pureed soybean paste. A person skilled in making fish salad for more than 20 years in Quy Nhon said that fish salad is one of the popular and famous fish dishes of this region. The shellfish is similar in shape to anchovies, but has a thinner, scaled texture. The apricot fish has a sweet, crunchy, and non-fishy taste, so it is very suitable as a salad. Depending on the size of the fish, the person takes the bone. If the fish is as big as two fingers, the bones must be removed. If smaller, only the half of the bone in the abdomen is needed, leaving a bit of the tail bone nib. The fish must be really fresh, each fiber still shines the color of the sea to reach the first “standard” to have a delicious salad. The most cleverness of the apricot fish maker is exposed at the fish bone removal process. The fish that is only a little bigger than the tip of the chopsticks must be removed by hand so that when eaten, it does not feel crushed and crushed. After the head, intestines, scales, bones are removed, the fish is soaked in cold water mixed with granular salt to make the flesh more firm and rich. The preparation of spices, sauces, and vegetables is also quite meticulous. Usually, fish salad with 2 cups of sauce is soy sauce mixed with lemongrass, chili and soy sauce. The most difficult way is to process soy sauce with roasted pureed peanuts and simmer with tomatoes, large chili, and spices. The dish of apricot fish salad will be different without a plate of colorful vegetables with banana flowers, young banana, star fruit, raw mango, green tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, sesame buds, giang leaves … By taking raw, ripe rice paper, pick up vegetable chopsticks, fish pieces mixed with lemons, spices … wrapped in soy sauce or prepared soy sauce. Currently a plate of apricot fish salad is sold in seafood restaurants in Quy Nhon priced from 75,000 to 100,000 VND / plate depending on the custom. Quy Nhon is a place where natural scenery blends between majestic mountains and vast sea, creating a mixture of diverse ecosystems, providing extremely rich and attractive regional products. domestic and foreign tourists visit. (According to GiadinhNet)