Two Tasty Vietnamese Chicken Recipes

A lot of people assume that all Vietnamese food is very spicy or, worse still, identical to Chinese food. Poultry plays a large part in Vietnamese cuisine and fresh vegetables and fruits are popular in these recipes.

Fish sauce is used to flavor poultry, beef and pork dishes, just as it is used to season fish, seafood, and vegetarian meals. In fact, fish sauce is used more for its saltiness (rather like soy sauce) than for its fish flavor. The following two recipes will show you how tasty Vietnamese recipes can be and how easy they are to prepare.

Fruity Baked Chicken with Lemongrass

This appetizing recipe makes enough to serve four people and it is good with boiled rice. You can either cut up a whole bird to make this or just use your favorite parts of the bird. Let it marinate overnight for a more intense flavor.

What you will need:

1 whole skinless chicken, cut up
2 minced cloves garlic
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1/2 cup low-salt soy sauce
2 unripe bananas, in quarter slices
2 diagonally sliced stalks lemongrass, just the bottom 6 inches
4 halved slices fresh pineapple

How to make it:

Mix the soy sauce with the lemongrass, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, and oil in one bowl and put the bird in a second bowl. Pour the mixture over the bird, then cover it and leave it to marinate for at least three hours in the refrigerator.

Arrange the bird in a baking dish in one layer. Add the pineapple and banana and pour the rest of the marinade over it. Cover and bake for half an hour at 350 degrees F. Turn the meat over and bake it for another half an hour or until the chicken is cooked through and the juices run clear.

Chicken with Bamboo Shoots in a Tomato Sauce

This serves six people and it is nice with Chinese noodles or rice. Spanish-style tomato sauce is good for this recipe. The fish sauce, bamboo shoots and sesame seeds gives this easy dish a typically Asian flavor. Without those ingredients, it could pass as a Spanish or Italian dish.

What you will need:

2 green onions, in 1 inch pieces
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 1/4 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breast, in strips
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
2 tablespoons crushed, toasted sesame seeds
1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
8 oz can bamboo shoots, drained

How to make it:

Combine the chicken with the bamboo shoots, green onion, pepper, and garlic salt in a covered container and chill it for fifteen minutes. Heat the oil in a skillet and add the chilled mixture. Cook it for ten minutes or until the chicken is no longer pink.

Combine the water, tomato sauce, and fish sauce and pour this over the poultry. Turn the heat up to moderately high and bring the mixture to a boil. Cover the pan and turn the heat down to low. Cook for ten minutes. Sprinkle the crushed sesame seeds over the top and serve.

If you enjoy chicken recipes, you might like to try some international dishes. Sometimes however, nothing but a plate of classic fried chicken will do, especially when you crave comfort food in the form of an easy southern fried chicken recipe.

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How to Make Vietnamese Chicken Rice Soup - Chao Ga

Chicken rice soup, also called chicken congee or chicken porridge is commonly used to nurture sickly family members. This hot chicken soup in addition to onion slices and Vietnamese coriander (rau ram) is very light and easy on your stomach, and it's a traditional way to help ease the fever, headache, and sore throat. I always cook this soup when anyone in my family is sick. My husband loves it, he always asks for Chicken Rice Soup when he's not feeling well. This dish can also be served as a light lunch or dinner.

Recipe for Chao Ga - Vietnamese Chicken Rice Soup or Chicken Congee:
1/2 small onion, lightly grilled
1 small piece of ginger (2 inches), sliced
1 tbsp Asian fish sauce
Salt
1 tsp cracked black pepper
1/2 (2lb) whole chicken
1 piece of rock sugar (~1 tbsp sugar)
1/3 cup long grain rice
1/3 cup mung beans (no skins)
1 lime, cut into wedges
2 tbsp chopped Vietnamese coriander leaves
1 tbsp sliced scallions, or onions
2 tbsp of chopped cilantro leaves

Pan Fried Chicken

In a large sauce pan place 5 cups of water, bring to a boil, add the chicken and bring it back to a boil. Turn off the heat, discard the water and wash the chicken clean. This first water is full of impurities, I always discard it. Clean the saucepan and add 8 cups of water, return to a boil and put the chicken back it to the saucepan. Add the onion, ginger, fish sauce, sugar, 1 tsp salt, and pepper and let it simmer for 30 mins, skimming the impurities from the surface.

While the chicken is simmering, in a clean saucepan, fry the mung beans over low heat until fragrant but not brown. Add fried beans to the chicken stock. Decrease the heat to a simmer and cook the mung beans, stirring regularly, for 25 to 30 mins.

After 30 mins of cooking, remove the chicken and plunge into ice water for 10 mins, reserving the stock. Put the chicken in a colander and allow to drain. Shred the chicken into bite-size pieces, then marinate with 1 tsp of salt, a pinch of pepper, juice from 1/2 lime, and add in Vietnamese coriander leaves, mix well and set aside.

In the same sauce pan you fried the mung beans, fry rice over low heat until fragrant but not brown. Discard onion and ginger from the stock, then add rice to the soup, stirring up so rice and mung beans are mixed evenly. Cook for around 25-30 mins or until rice grains have bloomed and curled, stirring regularly to avoid scorching. Taste and add extra salt, as necessary.

Fold the shredded chicken through the chao and ladle into individual soup bowls. Garnish with the sliced scallions, cilantro and squeeze in couple drops of lime juice as desired.

Serves 4.
Enjoy!

How to Make Vietnamese Chicken Rice Soup - Chao Ga

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Fragrant and Tasty Vietnamese Chicken Recipes

Stir fried chicken recipes are usually associated with Chinese cooking but there is a whole new world of Asian flavor if you look at Vietnamese cuisine.

Vietnamese cuisine is known for using a mixture of delicate herbs and spices in one dish for subtle, complex flavors, which make it really good to eat.

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Typical Vietnamese Ingredients

A lot of Vietnamese stir-fry recipes and other Vietnamese dishes use fish sauce. Vietnam is situated along the South China Sea coastline and fish is a common ingredient in this cuisine. Soy sauce, mint, lemongrass, basil, and cilantro are typical Vietnamese seasonings.

As well as chicken, pork, duck, goat and shrimp are used and some kinds of seafood. Beef is used but not in so many dishes. There are also a lot of Vietnamese vegetarian dishes because of the predominant Buddhist religion there.

How to Make Vietnamese Chicken Stir Fry

The following boneless chicken recipe is delicious served with boiled white rice or noodles. This makes enough for four people.

Do not be put off by the long ingredient list because a lot of the ingredients keep for a long time so you can use them in other recipes. You might need to get some of the ingredients from an Asian food store, like the fish sauce and bean paste.

Vietnamese Stir Fry Recipe with Chicken

You will need:

1 lb 8 oz boneless chicken breasts, sliced thinly 5 tablespoons lemongrass, chopped finely 1 red chili, sliced thinly 4 garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 4 tablespoons sunflower oil 1 cinnamon stick 10 green onions, cut diagonally into 1 inch pieces 3 tablespoons ground bean sauce 12 oz green beans, in 2 inch lengths 1 carrot, in thin 2 inch strips 3 tablespoons fish sauce 1 handful peanuts 1 handful chopped, fresh cilantro leaves
How to make it:

Heat half the oil in a skillet over a medium heat, and then add the chicken. Cook it for 6 to 8 minutes, stirring often. Remove the chicken from the pan and drain it on paper towels.

Add the rest of the oil to the pan, and then add the garlic, lemongrass, chili, cinnamon, and cardamom, frying until fragrant. This will take about 3 minutes.

Add the green onions and fry for 2 minutes. Add the carrots and beans and fry for 8 minutes, stirring often. When the vegetables are cooked but still with a little bit of bite to them, put the chicken back in the pan. Add the bean sauce and fish sauce and stir fry everything until the chicken is warmed through. Discard the cinnamon stick.

Heat another pan over a medium heat and dry fry the peanuts until they are golden, and then chop them roughly. Divide the vegetables and chicken between 4 bowls and garnish with the cilantro and chopped, roasted peanuts.

Fragrant and Tasty Vietnamese Chicken Recipes

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