Any good Vietnamese recipes to share?

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I have just mastered monkfish in nuoc cham and I would like to cook more healthy Vietnamese food. I do not have a massive range of ingredients: fish sauce, rice paper wrappers, tamarind, glass noodles, herbs etc
I won't use anything artificial. I don't want Brit adaptations but the real deal.

Does anybody have any wow recipes they do not mind sharing? Thanks

Shamelessly placemarking!

This recipe is delicious:

Vietnamese poached chicken salad with mint and coriander

I have no idea how genuinely authentic it is, but it seemed to have all the right flavours.

Also placemarking - and have just bookmarked that recipe which looks fab, thanks!

Vietnamese caramel chicken is a good one: www.recipetineats.com/vietnamese-coconut-caramel-chicken/

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/vegetarian-summer-rolls-with-peanut-dipping-sauce/amp/

These are so tasty and really simple to make, perfect and light for summer. If you’re not vegetarian, add cooked prawns to the rolls.

There is also a lady on Instagram called @gaming_foodie who is Vietnamese married to a Korean guy so she makes loads of Vietnamese and Korean home cooking. I followed her recipe for Vietnamese spring rolls and it worked perfectly, I am going to try her pho recipe next!

Fabulous, thank you already!
I would like to try a pho but I reckon that balancing those flavours is probably the next level up.

Also placemarking!

any recipe books?

with one veggie, one recently diagnosed dairy allergy in the house we’re finding Asian food the go to these days. Korean is a favourite, but I’d like to try Vietnamese and Malay.

I had a look for books and I found that there is a lack of them but happy to be corrected!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10230905/Red-cabbage-and-beansprout-salad-with-herbs-recipe.html

served with crispy pork belly, noodles and dipping sauce (I use a recipe from a cook book that I’ll look out once DS2, who is ill and asleep on me, wakes up).

Easier than you’d think. A pressure cooker really helps with the broth. Especially if you’re doing beef broth.

Following!
Can anyone recommend a good Vietnamese cookbook?

Ca Kho To is my absolute favourite Vietnamese dish. Works great with any white fish if you can't get hold of catfish. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Thanks. Would it also work in a slow cooker?

https://iamafoodblog.com/vietnamese-pizza/

You’d probably be better off just doing it on the job rather than a slow cooker. Everything tends to come out less flavoursome from a slow cooker IME. Although the slow cooker mafia will come for me for saying so.

A pressure cooker will very much cut down the broth making time required.

Also, this one:

https://www.wokandkin.com/thit-kho/

That pizza idea is genius!

@IncomingTraffic I agree although the slow cooker is the lazier option. I suppose that a prawn or even chicken one could be done fresh.

Place marking!

Where can you buy catfish or for that matter, longfish apart from Billingsgate?

Has anybody tried making those green mussels which are often served as starters? (I wish I could remember the name). We only ear fish, shelfish and poultry and love veggie and vegan.

Regarding recipe books, I wonder if Rick Stein or Floyd would have written a recipe book covering the wider region? (I would love recipes from neighbouring countries too - I find Indonesian recipes more intuitively easy to grasp

How about this one? Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey

Tbh, the pressure cooker is just as lazy. More so because you don’t need to do it many hours in advance.

I find chicken broth pretty quick and easy to do. I have some Korean recipes that involve boiling a chicken that produce delicious broth and meat in less than an hour.

I’d get a cookbook from an actual Vietnamese person. This London-based chef is amazing and I’ve followed her for years on Insta: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/thuy-diem-pham/little-viet-kitchen/9781472936035?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=18075688485&cq_con=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x&gclid=CjwKCAjw4ZWkBhA4EiwAVJXwqb6cmArw-qBBcCn_68Z21nOjF039ZM1raMp0wORc-6n2KEddlZxfUhoCi44QAvD_BwE#GOR009483136

Brilliant - thanks!