Family meals for 4 people are varied with a variety of dishes. Start the new week with a tray of rice including shumai with tomato sauce, fried green beans with garlic, boiled chayote. Reader Quach Tuyet shared with Zing: “The cost of each meal is about 250,000 VND”. Changing the menu with pork rib soup cooked with pickles, braised chicken with ginger, fried eggs, boiled vegetables is a suggestion for you. Meals with easy-to-buy ingredients, simple ways to help you do not waste time thinking about what to cook today. The frugal menu for the family’s summer meal can include clam soup cooked with spinach and melon, sautéed squash with garlic, and roasted meat. Add a plate of salted eggplant to eat together to reduce boredom and immediately have a decent tray of rice for the family to gather. If you are busy, you should salt the eggplant in large quantities and store it in the refrigerator for long-term use. When ideas are stuck, housewives can show off their talents with a menu including salmon salad with vegetables, bitter melon soup cooked with shrimp, mixed fried squid, and boiled water spinach. For the salad, you need to sauté the salmon with pepper, oyster sauce, and soy sauce. Lettuce, pear, apple, chopped avocado to mix together. The sauce includes 3 tablespoons of roasted sesame sauce, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise. Another menu with red catfish cooked in sour soup, deep-fried fish, gourd stuffed with eggs, deep-fried beans. To make a stuffed gourd, you need to separate the yolk and the white of the egg. The gourd is cut in half and the intestines removed. Then you put the steamed egg whites first. About 5 minutes later, you continue to pour the yolk on top and steam until cooked. Bitter gourd soup cooked with calamari, braised pork ribs with pineapple, boiled squash, and fried bitter gourd with eggs is a nutritious meal that helps strengthen resistance during epidemic days. To reduce the bitter taste of bitter melon, after peeling, you can wash it with salt water. The combination of salmon with orange sauce, papaya pork leg soup, okra with soy sauce sauce, asparagus sautéed with garlic makes a delicious tray of rice for family members. With many elaborately prepared dishes, this can be a weekend meal for you to treat the whole family.

Bitter gourd… wild Bitter gourd has a bitter taste, that’s why many people can’t eat it, but there are also many people who get used to it… addicted to that bitter taste. Since ancient times, the use of this fruit has been recognized by Eastern medicine, which is the effect of tonic blood, does not contain toxins, promotes the detoxification mechanism of the liver, and clears heat for the body. Modern medicine also has many studies showing the effects of bitter melon on human health. Specifically, the vitamin C content in bitter melon is nearly 20 times higher than that of cucumbers; Eating bitter melon will help increase glucose metabolism, reduce blood cholesterol, strengthen the immune system, protect the heart … For those who are used to eating bitter melon, there is no need to undergo preliminary processing to reduce bitterness when processing. For those who are not used to eating, before processing, it is necessary to peel off the intestines of the melon, blanch it in boiling water, and wash it many times with cold water. By doing so, the bitterness of the dish will be much less and it will be easier to enjoy. About a dozen years ago, the source is unknown, first from a few sidewalk beer shops, a mannequin dish appeared, at that time it was called by the curiously-sounding name “crocodile crossing the river”. But actually, it’s a type that can be called salad or mannequin is not wrong. Bitter melon is thinly sliced, soaked in ice to make it crispy, the heart of the plate is left with a lot of ice, covered with a food wrapper, and on top is a display of bitter melon and shrimp. Bitter gourd soaked in ice cold water has a crunchy texture, and when eaten with salted water, it is delicious and especially not bitter. In addition, it is also possible to make a normal loofah mannequin. Bitter gourd salad includes bitter gourd, bell pepper, onion, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and vinegar… All ingredients are preliminarily processed, sliced ​​thinly and mixed together. The dish is especially suitable for summer people who want to lose weight. In folklore, bitter melon is always used by Vietnamese people to make food in their daily meals, in addition, bitter melon is also used as a tea to help clear heat. And according to research by Japanese nutritionists, bitter melon is a longevity food with nutritional value “full of flavor”. With simple processing methods, it will help us to have a simple dish and drink. The most common in the dishes from bitter melon is bitter melon stuffed with meat. This dish, in addition to bitter melon, also has minced lean meat, wood ear, shiitake mushrooms (you can have it but you can’t), pepper, dried onions… If you leave the whole fruit, cut it along the body, remove all the intestines of the melon and put it into a pile. meat that has mixed the above ingredients inside, otherwise it can be cut into small pieces, putting the meat inside the intestines. Bitter melon stuffed with meat can be cooked into soup, when eaten, sprinkled with spring onions or can also be eaten with tomato sauce to eat with rice. Nature’s gift Another popular dish from bitter melon is stir-fried bitter melon with eggs. Bitter gourd is gutted, finely chopped, sautéed purple onion, chopped with lard, fragrant onion, put the melon on a large fire, then break the egg and stir well. The high heat makes the cooked eggs entwine with the bitter gourd pieces. When scrambled eggs with bitter melon, the bitterness in the melon is minimized. It is also a stir-fried dish from melon that can be sautéed with beef, with pork kidney or fried with mushrooms for a vegetarian dish. Hanoi market now has almost all stalls selling strabismus. Fish bought with onions, dill, a little chopped chili, flexible fish can be stuffed into each chunk of gutted melon and then cooked in soup. You can also chop melon like stir-fry and then cook soup with scallions, sprinkle with scallions when eating. This is a refreshing and nutritious dish. Also with the soup, you can cook bitter melon fish soup. Ingredients include 2-3 bitter melons, 1 fish, green onions, coriander, spices, sugar, salt, pepper. Clean the fish, drain it, blanch it in boiling water, then take it out and let it dry. Bitter melon washed, halved, gutted, cut into pieces about 2-3cm as you like. Boil about 2-3 bowls of water and then put the fish in the stew. Tasting spices to taste. When the fish is soft, add the bitter melon and cook on medium heat until the bitter melon is soft. Season with spices, pepper to taste, then remove the scallions, chopped coriander, you can turn off the stove and scoop out the bowl. Similarly can cook bitter melon with shrimp. Raw materials include melon, cleaned and peeled shrimp, raw spring rolls with scallions, coriander, salted fish sauce just enough. Shrimps are mixed with raw spring rolls, pepper, salt and dried onions. Then leave for 10 minutes for the shrimp to infuse the spices. Boil a sufficient amount of water, when the water is boiling, put each spoon of marinated shrimp in the pot and continue to boil on high heat to bring the water to a boil. Cook until the shrimp is cooked to the surface of the water, then drop in the bitter melon. Continue cooking until the bitter melon is cooked, then season to taste and then turn off the heat. Bitter melon is also suitable for making braised dishes. Can store copper fish, bitter melon with soy sauce. Ingredients include carp or carp, carp. Big fish are cut into pieces, cleaned, put under the same layer of fatty meat or pork skin, the cleaned bitter melon layer is divided vertically into 4 layers, then the second layer, then the fish, add a layer of bitter melon and finally pork belly. , add cork sauce, a little water, salted fish sauce, and then simmer for about 1-2 hours. Braised carp with bones is the best. However, when it’s time to eat, the fish always runs out after the bitter gourd. If you don’t stock with fish, you can braise bitter melon with soy sauce, then add a few drops of sesame oil, it will be very fragrant, eat with hot rice, salty vegetarian can use. Bitter gourd can also be sliced ​​thin, dried and then boiled in boiling water to drink like tea. Bitter gourd tea has a detoxifying effect, very good for health.

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)