Are you a person with a special taste? Are you a culinary enthusiast?
If you are such a person, I am sure you will be surprised to discover the culinary culture of Vietnam. It does not need to be expensive, difficult to make or hard to maintain, even if the food is ordinary but when combined with different spices and herbs, your dish absolutely has different flavors. And when you come to Vietnam you can easily realize that a lot of Vietnamese food is served with herbs. Although not a precious drug but each kind of herbs used with each dish express the essence and thoroughness of the Vietnamese people. Why is that? There are so many tourists who would ask, with my personal understanding, I would like to say that each combination is a harmony of yin and yang, hot and cold in the dish so that the guests can enjoy deliciousness and not affected by health.If you want to try most of them, I am sure Hanoi street food, or food walking tour will make you surprise about that.
Popular herbs in Vietnam
Herbs must be divided into two types: Vietnamese herbs and Western herbs. Vietnamese people like to eat herbs with noodles and live while Westerner and some other countries only use herbs to marinate with meat, fish, taste the food is mainly. Vietnamese herbs are usually basil, cilantro, marmalade, houttuynia, mint, perilla, etc. Western style herbs include rosemary, oregano, thyme. A special characteristic of herbs is healing and health benefits, many of which are used as medicinal herbs.
Basil
It has sweet, spicy taste. As the most popular herbal, you can meet it anywhere you go to eat noodle. Items such as salad rolls, pork rolls, can not lack basil. We also can marinate it with pork, beef to increase flavor.
Mint leave
In Vietnamese dishes, mint leaves are used almost as basil. In addition, the mint after processing is so cool that it is also often used in desserts, especially the dishes with chocolate.
Laksa leaf, persicaria
It has spicy, warm taste. Often used when eating duck fetus, porridge, mussels to help delicious and warm taste and to balance the cold of the above. Chickens tear milling, squeeze salt with lemon pepper can not lack persicaria, salad, mannequin also use to the vegetables. In the North, there is also a special dish beef broccoli soup.
Coriander
Coriander is quite easy to use, can be put in almost any dish is. If you do not add flavor, it also has the decorative effect.
Or put in the soup, the store, stir fry before serving.
Oregano
We can eat oregano with shrimp paste tofu sauce is No. 1. The world is also eaten with raw vegetables to eat fried dishes, fried dishes.Oregano is also used in many Western dishes and combine superbly with tomatoes or garlic, chili dishes. Sprinkle on salads, grilled meats, fried mushrooms, pizza, pasta sauce.In Vietnamese dishes, Balm – mint is used almost the same way with Oregano.
Dill
Maybe everyone knows fish soup, fish serve with dill to make the dish more delicious. Not only for soup, it can also be used in steamed fish dishes, fish balls, or eggs.Talking about herbs, it is as diverse and rich as the Vietnamese culinary culture.
Each kind of herbs has its own position in each dish and in each locality. But wherever it is, with each combination expressing a particular meaning, only if you really understand it is priceless.