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| Green Tea leaves |
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| Fresh Fish |
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| Lots of colourful vegetables |
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| Cinnamon bark |
Two ladies showed us where they got all the fresh seafood , and where to get the different herbs and spices in the market. We got to try some cinnamon which was in its original form, as tree bark. It was spicy and sweet at the same time. When we finally got back to the restaurant which had the cooking class we found out that only our family was doing the cooking, so the cooking teachers layed out all the ingedients and tools we would need on a table.
First we made fresh Vietnamese spring rolls. We did not make the spring roll base, but it was rice paper. We each dipped our piece of rice paper into a bowl of water. Then we put in the ingredients that we wanted into the spring roll. There was pork and shrimp (but I didn't have that,)there was green salad with mint leaves, papaya and carrot. Then we had to wrap them up. It was quite a challenge for us to fold them up. Finally we then got to eat it with a yummy dipping sauce, and it was delicious. I ate all of mine.
We also got to make Hoi An Pankcakes, Crispy Calamari, Grilled Beef with Lemon Grass and Chilli, and Grilled Chicken with Lemon Grass. I have copied the full recipes at the bottom if you want to make them, and eat them.
We had an excellent learning how to cook day. Even dad enjoyed it.
FRESH
SPRING ROLL
Ingredients:
50 gr lean pork, 50 gr shrimp 25
gr green papaya Shallot,
garlic, salt, stock cube
15 gr carrot Few green salad, fresh
mint Vinegar,
sugar, rice paper
Methods:
Lean pork, cut fine. Shrimp leaves the shell apart,
cut along the back. Marinated with salt, peper, stock cube, shallot, garlic. Stir fried them
in 2 minutes Green salad and
fresh mints all cut fine. Green papaya salad, carrot cut into small threads and
soaked in solution of vinegar and sugar for 15 minutes, then squeeze dry. Put
the rice paper through water for 30 seconds until it is soft
Set it on the plate, have salad, mints on the top then
having some papaya salad, carrot threads and cooked pork and shrimp. Roll the
whole things tightly as be demonstrated. Served with sweet and sour fish sauce.
HOI AN PANCAKE
Ingredients:
Prawn, clean well and take the shells off and cut
along its back. Spring onion is cut fine. Filet pork, clean and cut in thin threads.
Rice flour, eggs, fresh milk, bean prout.
Methods:
Put rice flour, egg, milk in big bowl and mix well. Then put spring onion in.
Add a litlle cooking oil into a hot pan and heat up
the oil. Have some prawn and pork on the pan and then have a bia spoon of mixed
flour in. Wait until the pan cake turns into yellow and put some bean prout in.
Wait in 1', it is cooked now. Served with sweet and sour fish sauce, green
salad and rice paper cake.
CRISPY CALAMARY
Ingredients:
Calamaries are cleaned well and cut in rings, add a
tiny bit of lime,
Corn flour, crispy powder, beer, egg, milk, pepper,
chopped garlic and red onion. All are mixed well, and the mixture has to be
thick.
Methods:
Dip the calamary rings into dry flour ( corn flour,
crispy powder) and then dip into the mixture, then deep fry in hot oil. Take
the calamary out when they all the dark yellow. Served with plum chilli sauce
or mayonaise + chilli sauce.
GRILLED BEEF WITH LEMONGRASS
AND CHILLI
Ingredients:
100 gr filet Beef 1 teaspoons lemongrass 1/3 teaspoon white peper,
1 teaspoon stock cubes 2 teaspoons Garlic + Shallot 4 pieces Banana leaf
1 teaspoon Chilli a little salt 1 teaspoon Hosing sauce( Grilled
sauce)
Methods:
Lemongrass: discard the bottom 1cm, finely chop the
next 3cm as well as garlic, shallot ,chilli.
Cut another piece of lemongrass using the next 6cm for
the ganish. Put lemongrass, garlic, shallot, chilli, pepper, salt, stock cubes,
( add cooking oil ) on the beef and mix all together. Plate mixing beef
on the banana leaves. Add the piece of lemongrass on the top of the mixing beef
as a garnish. Wrap the beef up 3 separate banana leaves. Leave mixing beef
about 15' to 20' for marinate and then grill for 5 minutes on each side. ( You can use aluminium
peper instead banana leave )
- You can
also grill these on the BBQ, for this you need to add chopped lemongrass,
garlic, red onion and chili while marinating the beef. Remember to add the
juice on top of the beef while you grill them so that beefs don’t get
dried out and all ingredient flavors will be absorbed.
GRILLED CHICKEN WITH LEMON
LEAVES
Ingredients:
100 gr filet chicken 2 spoons lemon grass 1 spoon garlic
1 spoon shallot 1 spoon chili Few
lemon leaves
1 spoon stock cubes 1 spoon hoisin sauce ¼
spoon pepper
¼ spoon sugar 2 spoon cooking oil 4 pieces
banana leaves
How to cook:
Lemongrass: Discard the bottom 1cm, finely chop the
next 3 cm as well as garlic, shallot, chilli
Cut another pieces of lemongrass using the next 6cm
for the ganish. Put spicies: lemongrass, garlic, shallot, chilli, hoisin,stock
cubes, sugar, peper, cooking oil and mix with chicken and lemon leave together.
Leave them in 15 minutes. Plate the chicken on the banana leaves. Place the
pieces of the lemongrass on the top of the
chicken as a garnish. Wrap the chicken up separate banana leaves and grill for
7 minutes on the each side
* You can also grill these on the BBQ, for this you
need to add chopped lemongrass, lemon leave, garlic, shallot, chili while the
marinating the chicken. Remember to add the juice on top of the chicken while
you grill them so that chicken don’t get dried out and all ingredients flavors
will be absorbed.
from Junior Masterchef Charlotte
sounds cool i would love to cook that
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