22 May 2010

Daikon stew & Vietnamese food report 3

Vietnam is an amazing place for food. The country is just so rich in ingredients because it's full of diversified nature such as jungles, mountains, rivers and the ocean.

This restaurant I visited was over 100 years old and has only one item on the menu, this is the recipe for snakehead fish. The fish is marinated with curry-tasting spices and you can fry it in a deep oil on your table with many types of herbs. Then eat them together with some rice noodles and nuts.

Today's cooking is the stew with daikon leaves. The daikon I bought had healthy looking leaves which had two slugs! So why not eat them?
Ingredients:
daikon leaves
onion
chicken
maitake mushrooms
milk
flour (1tbsp)
butter (or olive oil)
salt/pepper
dried oregano
consomme soup (1cup)

1- Stir fry the cut onion and chicken with some butter. Put the flour in and stir well.

2- Put a cup of soup into 1 and boil.  Add the cut daikon leaves and mushrooms.

3- Pour two cups of milk. Adjust the taste with salt, pepper and oregano.

Finish! Itadakimasu.