3 dishes people actually cook in Vietnam: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Vietnam? 3 traditional Vietnam dishes, from Bún chả (75 min, the quickest) to Phở bò (240 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Rice noodles in a clear beef broth scented with charred onion, ginger and star anise, poured boiling over raw slices of beef.
Hanoi's grilled pork patties and belly served in a light, sweet-sour fish sauce broth, eaten with cold rice noodles and herbs.
A thin turmeric and coconut rice-flour crepe that sizzles as it hits the pan, folded over pork, prawns and sprouts and eaten wrapped in leaves.
Copper documents three dishes from Vietnam: Phở bò, Bún chả and Bánh xèo. Fish sauce and lime each appear in more than one recipe. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 36 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 36 ingredients between them, of which 7 are shared by more than one dish. Fish sauce and bean sprouts the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 15 use fish sauce and 5 use bean sprouts. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Bún chả is the quickest at 75 minutes. Phở bò is the longest at 240 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 220 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Vietnam here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Bún chả is the shortest way in.
Vietnam is part of Southeast Asian.
Countries close to Vietnam on the globe — and close on the plate.
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