Illustration. Image source: Internet A cool smoothie made from three main ingredients: avocado, cucumber and apple. This smoothie is not only refreshing, but it also makes your stomach firm. Avocados are high in monounsaturated fats, which can help lower bad cholesterol and are good for the heart. You can use vegetables available in the kitchen. Basic ingredients include: 1 avocado, 1/2 cucumber, 1 apple. You can add spinach or ginger according to your preference. To add flavor to your smoothie, you can add fresh mint leaves, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, and half a teaspoon of salt. Blend the above ingredients until you get a smooth puree. Refrigerate until use. Cucumber soda Illustration. Image source: Internet This cool drink will replenish you on hot days. Cucumbers contain a lot of vitamin K, which is not only good for bones but also helps wounds heal. You only need to add about 1/4 of a sliced ​​cucumber to 1 cup of mineral water or carbonated mineral water. Mint leaves can be used for decoration. Add ice and enjoy. Aloe vera with alum sugar Illustration. Image source: Internet North on the stove 1 pot of water, bring to a boil, add 200g of rock sugar, stir gently to help the sugar dissolve quickly, add the pandan leaves to cook together. When the pandan leaves turn darker, take them out and add a few drops of banana oil. Add all of the previously prepared aloe vera, mix well and turn off the heat. Squash juice Illustration. Image source: Internet Wash the squash, peel off the outer green skin, remove the seeds, cut into pieces, then put it in the juicer, squeeze out pure squash juice. If you don’t have a juicer at home, cut the squash into small pieces, put it in a blender, puree, add a little water to make it easier to grind, then filter the water and remove the residue. Pour the squash juice into 2 cups, each glass add the juice of ½ lemon, 1 tablespoon honey, ½ teaspoon salt, stir well. You can replace honey with sugar, however, honey will be good for health and weight loss is also optimal. Put fresh lemon squash juice in the refrigerator for 2 hours and then enjoy. You can also serve it right away by adding some shaved ice.

Green crocodile fruit – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Sour soup with pickled water spinach – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Crocodile is one of many typical summer fruits in the North. Water spinach is boiled, picked out, then put in to make sour, the same crocodile when finished cooking, it is soaked in a bowl of fragrant garlic fish sauce. Just that alone makes the tray of rice cool but wastes rice immensely. Sour soup cooked with tamarind Young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup with young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup cooked with young tamarind leaves or tamarind fruit really has a very strange sour taste, both fragrant and sweet, especially when tamarind is cooked with seafood sour soup. The way to cook is very simple: first, fry the onions very fragrant, add a few pieces of pineapple (fragrant) and then add tamarind and water to boil. When we see enough acidity, add seafood (fish, clams, shrimp…) in. Just boil the water again and have a delicious pot of soup, now if you like a little color, add a few pieces of tomato to make it beautiful and then add onions, cilantro, and coriander to have a delicious pot of soup again. It’s easy to eat! In some areas in Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan, and Quang Nam, at breakfast, you will cook a pot of soup like this and a pot of rice to have a solid meal and enough quality to work until noon. Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves lá Giang leaves often grow wild on the banks of ponds and fences – Photo: Food in green fields Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves – Photo: Delicious dishes every day If you have come to the West and tried the chicken sour soup, you will definitely not forget it because the taste is great. Giang leaf, also known as nom leaf as it is called in the North, is a type of leaf that often grows wild in fences and is very popular. The leaves are washed, lightly crumpled, then cooked with water first, then the chicken is added. The sour taste of Giang leaves mixed with the fatty and aromatic taste of chicken will really make any tray of rice “perforate”. In the Northwest, there is also buffalo meat cooked with nom leaves, which is also an extremely attractive specialty. There are also many sour soup dishes such as vegetarian sour soup, sour bamboo shoot soup… extremely delicious in summer. The sour soup is not too difficult to prepare, the sour taste of the fruits and leaves will help your soup to be delicious in any way. Eating with fresh vermicelli or hot rice is “standard”.