The mild, refreshing sour taste of star fruit combined with other ingredients creates a unique flavor, stimulates the taste buds and helps cool the body effectively.
In addition to being used as a beverage, star fruit is also widely used in cooking. With its natural sweet and sour taste, star fruit is always an ingredient to prepare many nutritious dishes.
Braised duck with star fruit
While the cuisine of the Central and Southern regions is attractive with duck cooked with fermented bean curd, duck braised with lemongrass, duck braised in coconut water, and duck porridge and salad, the cuisine of the North is memorable with duck braised with star fruit.
Duck meat is cool, combined with green star fruit, taro (or can be replaced with taro) will create a delicious, fatty, attractive dish. The duck is cleaned, then rubbed with salt and ginger to remove the smell, chopped into bite-sized pieces, then marinated with spices for about 1 hour to absorb.
When the marinade is long enough, stir-fry the duck until the meat is firm, then add water and star fruit. Simmer the duck with star fruit over low heat. When the meat is cooked, simmer for about 15 minutes and add the potatoes to simmer until tender and flavorful. Finally, add a little coconut milk to create a delicious, fatty dish with a mild sour taste that is easy to eat.
Sour plum soup with minced meat
If you are still wondering what delicious dishes can be made from star fruit, you can refer to the sour star fruit soup with minced meat.
This dish has an extremely simple and easy-to-make recipe. Stir-fry the minced meat with wood ear mushrooms and chopped shiitake mushrooms, then add water and add star fruit. When eating, just sprinkle some green onions and coriander and it's done. The sour taste of star fruit, the crunchy and fragrant taste of mushrooms and the sweetness of the minced meat will definitely go well with rice on hot summer days.
Rib and star fruit soup
This is a very familiar dish on the family dinner table in the Northern region. Rib soup with star fruit is delicious when eaten with rice or vermicelli, especially in the hot season.
The ribs are tender, boneless, and flavorful. The broth is mildly sour from star fruit, and the aroma of green onions and coriander makes anyone who enjoys it once unable to forget the taste.
Pickled plums in sugar
Sugar-soaked star fruit juice with ice has a sweet and sour taste, cool and refreshing, will be a refreshing drink to dispel the hot summer days. When choosing star fruit to soak in sugar, you should choose young star fruit (not too young or too old), light green, thick flesh, slightly rough skin, fresh stem is the best star fruit.
To prevent pickled plums from fermenting and forming a scum, everything needs to be sterilized (quickly blanch plums, rinse jars with boiling water and let dry, cook and let cool the sugar water). Each time you make it, use a clean ladle to scoop out the water and plums from the jar.
Sweet and sour crocodile juice
One of the favorite dishes made from sour plums is sweet and sour sour plum juice. This drink is not only popular in Hanoi but also spread throughout big cities such as the Central region and the Southern provinces. Although sour plum juice is a popular drink, it contains the quintessence of the capital's cuisine.
Sorrel juice is associated with the childhood of many generations of Hanoians. Everyone has eagerly bought a glass of sweet and sour iced sour juice after school to relieve stress after school. Thus, this drink has become an important part of the childhood memories of Hanoians.
Sweet and sour plum juice with its characteristic aroma, the crunchy and sour plum peel mixed with sweet sugar water, adding a little bit of cool ice is truly delicious. Nowadays, you can enjoy this drink everywhere in Hanoi. In particular, plum juice is also an attractive drink when served with vermicelli, fried tofu and shrimp paste.
Braised pork leg with star fruit
The next delicious dish made from star fruit is still a specialty from the North - braised pig's feet with star fruit. The dish is attractive and eye-catching with the pink meat of the pig's feet, the green of star fruit, green onions and fresh red chili. Every combination of spices and ingredients seems to have been gathered in this special dish.
Scrape off the hair from the pig's feet, rub with salt to remove the smell, and wash with water. Then chop the pig's feet into bite-sized pieces, blanch in boiling water to remove dirt and odor. Next, cook the sugar water until it turns brown.
Add the ingredients including star fruit, garlic, shallots, chili that have been processed with filtered water and boil over high heat. Then add the spices including oyster sauce, fish sauce, pepper, sugar water to the mixture and stir gently to dissolve the spices. When the mixture boils, add the processed pork leg, boil until the water thickens then turn off the heat.
Sauteed apricot with ginger
Another delicious dish made from star fruit that cannot be missed is the stir-fried star fruit with ginger - a Hanoi specialty that tourists often buy as gifts. This is a delicious snack, and also helps relieve sore throats very well. Star fruit with sweet, salty taste stir-fried with spicy ginger, fragrant, the more you eat, the more addicted you become.
Many times, walking along Hoan Kiem Lake, looking up at the rows of old tamarind trees on the sidewalk, there were only a few remaining ripe tamarinds left when people could not harvest them all in the summer. Autumn in Hanoi must always have ripe tamarinds, because if there were no longer the figures of people carrying trays of ripe tamarinds to sell on the street, along with the fragrance of tamarinds mixed in the cold wind, then Autumn would lose its inherent poetic charm...
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