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Preparation
1 hour
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Difficulty
Easy
Fatty pork, pickled vegetables, couplets, sticky rice cake,… are all familiar dishes that are indispensable during the traditional Tet holiday of the Vietnamese people. Today, TasteVN will guide you on how to make pickled vegetables without sun drying using an air fryer in a very simple way. Let’s get cooking!
Ingredients for Non-Sun-Dried Pickled Vegetables For 4 people
White radish 200 gr Carrot 200 gr Kohlrabi 400 gr Onion 5 bulbs Garlic 3 bulbs Small chili 5 fruits Fish sauce 200 ml Salt/ sugar A little
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to choose fresh carrots
- To buy fresh carrots, you should choose those that are new and just harvested. The skin should be bright orange, smooth, and the top leaves should be fresh and green.
- Choose carrots that are of moderate size; do not select those that are too large. Usually, large carrots with thick tops are older, more fibrous, less sweet, and do not contain many nutrients.
- Avoid choosing carrots that are soft, misshapen, have many scratches, bruises, or wilted tops; these are carrots that have been stored for a long time or have been damaged during transport, which will not be tasty when cooked.
- For safety, you should buy carrots from reputable places that are highly rated for product quality!
How to choose quality kohlrabi
- To buy quality kohlrabi, you should choose those with a light green, bright, natural color. The bulb should be intact, not bruised, eaten by pests, or soft.
- You should select bulbs of moderate size, not too large or too small, that feel firm and heavy in hand.
- Delicious kohlrabi will have a characteristic aroma, clear cooking water, and no scum on the surface of the water.
- You should not buy kohlrabi that has an unusual shape, that is bruised or has been eaten by pests, as these are low-quality kohlrabi.
How to choose delicious white radish
- You should choose white radishes that have a bright, natural color, are intact, with smooth skin that is not scratched, bruised, or has unusual black spots.
- Choose white radishes that are straight, elongated, feel solid when held, and are slightly firm to the touch, with a crisp skin.
- Select white radishes with a firmly attached leaf stem, green leaves, and still retain the small roots around the radish.
- You should not choose white radishes that are too large, have soft stems, lack leaf stems, or have wilted leaves.
- Also, do not choose those with thick, large shoulders, as these white radishes tend to be fibrous and bland, not tasty.
Tools needed:
Air fryer, tablespoon, jar, knife, bowl,…
Making fish sauce
Next, add 200ml of fish sauce and 300g of sugar into the pot, place the pot on the stove, adjust to low heat and boil for about 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and let it cool completely. Remember to stir well while cooking to prevent the sugar from burning.
After the fish sauce has cooled, add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and stir well to dissolve the ingredients.
Soaking vegetables
Next, place the vegetables, chili, onion, and garlic into a clay or glass jar and pour the fish sauce over the vegetables until they are submerged, then seal the lid tightly and after 2 days, it will be ready to eat.
Final product
The non-sun-dried pickled vegetables are now complete. The vegetables absorb the sweet and salty fish sauce, with a harmonious flavor and a faint aroma of fish sauce and vegetables, without any pungent smell. Enjoy the pickled vegetables with bánh chưng, bánh tét, and it’s perfect!
So TasteVN has guided you on how to make pickles without drying in the sun using an air fryer. Remember to save the recipe to show off your cooking skills. Wish you success!
