Tet Holiday is the time for everyone to gather for the year-end celebration, but you still don’t know what to prepare for your family’s feast. Don’t worry, the Kitchen Tips section of Dien May XANH will help you compile 27 essential dishes for the Tet feast, allowing you to choose freely without having to rack your brain!
1 Boiled Chicken
Boiled chicken is a familiar dish that is essential in festive meals, especially during the Tet holiday. A plate of boiled chicken on the dining table for guests will stand out with its golden color, shiny appearance, tender meat, and chewy skin.
How can you boil chicken to make it fragrant and beautiful? The following article will help you showcase your skills this Tet.
2 Banh Chung
Banh Chung is a traditional dish that has existed since ancient times and is still regarded as a symbol of Tet. This dish represents the harmony of heaven and earth and is a long-standing cultural trait of our nation.
To make delicious, square-shaped banh, you need some experience and skillful hands. The cake is made from sticky rice, mung beans, pork, and is cooked in a pot for quite a long time.
3 Jellied Meat
Jellied meat is a delicious and attractive dish, often served to guests during Tet celebrations. When eaten, jellied meat has a sweet and tender taste, a beautiful translucent color, with spices blending to create a harmonious dish.
Don’t forget to enjoy jellied meat with hot rice; this will be a wonderful combination for your Tet meal. The recipe below will help you succeed with this dish.
4 Pork Skin Soup
Pork skin soup, also known as floating pork skin soup, is a dish present on the table during Tet for the people of old Hanoi. The refreshing, mildly sweet taste of the broth, accompanied by fragrant fatty meatballs, crispy pork skin, and the aromatic scent of mushrooms and vegetables creates a complete flavor.
Although this soup dish may seem elaborate, the method is quite simple. Let’s head into the kitchen and treat your family!
5 Bamboo shoot soup with pig trotters
If you are too tired of greasy dishes, how can you miss bamboo shoot soup with pig trotters in your Tet feast menu? This dish plays a role in helping to relieve heaviness while providing essential nutrients, right?
The pig trotters are stewed to be soft and fragrant, fatty combined with fresh, crunchy bamboo shoots that are not bitter at all. The broth is sweet and rich, and when eaten with fresh noodles, it is simply wonderful.
6 Fried spring rolls
Fried spring rolls bring a delicious and crispy taste that many people love. This dish is not only used in the Tet feast but also in the daily meals of Vietnamese families.
Fried spring rolls offer a variety of sour, spicy, salty, and sweet flavors with main ingredients such as pork, wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, vegetables, bean sprouts, making it a symbolic dish representing “national essence”.
7 Pork sausage
Pork sausage is also a popular dish in the feast. This delicious dish, rich in flavor with the fresh sweetness of pork, can be paired with rice or bread, both are delicious. Don’t forget to prepare a bowl of spicy salt for dipping to ensure it’s irresistible.
Pork sausage can also be stored in the refrigerator and only needs a quick fry for a few minutes to serve guests at any time. Because of this, it is very suitable for use during Tet and is often chosen by many families.
8 Pickled Onions
Pickled onions are a dish that is always present in the traditional Tet feast of the Vietnamese people. This simple dish is easy to make, yet it helps to relieve greasiness very effectively, so let’s find out!
At first glance, the eye-catching purple color of pickled onions makes anyone want to taste them right away. When eaten, they are crunchy, with a perfect balance of sour and salty flavors, and they are not at all pungent, ensuring that even the little ones will enjoy them!
9 Sticky Rice Cake
Sticky rice cake is a very popular dish in the offerings for ancestors of Vietnamese families on the full moon, the first day of the month, or on Tet holidays, considered an indispensable characteristic.
The creamy sticky rice cake made from coconut milk, with the flavor of mung beans blended with sugar, creates a sweet and flavorful dish for the first day of the new year, ensuring that anyone who eats it will just crave more.
10 Gấc Sticky Rice
Gấc sticky rice is a highly favored dish, with a bright red color symbolizing luck. Gấc sticky rice is made from glutinous rice mixed with the flesh of gấc fruit, bringing a delicious flavor and being very nutritious with a high vitamin A content.
11 Pork in Fish Sauce
Pork in fish sauce is one of the signature dishes of Vietnamese Tet cuisine, especially in the beloved central region.
Each firm slice of pork soaked in fish sauce for many days creates an extremely delicious dish. This dish is best enjoyed with white rice, sticky rice, or Bánh Chưng and Bánh Tét.
Refer to the recipe below and quickly head to the kitchen to treat your family to this delicious dish!
12 Braised Beef
You may not know that braised beef is also a dish served on many families’ Tet trays. The braised beef is fragrant and has a very eye-catching appearance, just looking at it makes it hard to resist.
The beef pieces are braised at the right temperature and time, making them tender and delicious without being chewy, paired with a rich sauce, and if dipped with a piece of bread, it’s simply irresistible. Surely the flavor of this dish can conquer even the pickiest eaters.
13 Fresh Spring Rolls
Fresh Spring Rolls are an attractive, mouth-watering dish with a variety of different ingredients. However, in today’s list, Dien May XANH will introduce you to the familiar and rustic shrimp and pork spring rolls that you can’t possibly refuse.
Fresh, sweet shrimp and pork are wrapped in a soft, chewy rice paper, with a bit of fresh green vegetables, and dipped in a sweet and sour sauce, making you want to eat it over and over again. This dish helps you relieve the heaviness after eating oily foods, and it also contains a lot of nutrients.
14 Sour Shrimp
Sour shrimp is a simple, rustic dish from the people of Hue. The refreshing sour taste, the rich sweetness of the shrimp, and the spiciness of various spices create an unforgettable impression for anyone who has ever tried it.
Sour shrimp is often used to make salad (gỏi), dipped with boiled dishes, vegetable wraps, and rice paper, making it very delicious and well-balanced. Therefore, this Tet, try your hand at making sour shrimp to treat your family.
15 Pickled Vegetables
Pickled vegetables are an essential dish during the Tet holiday. People often use pickled vegetables as a side dish with sticky rice cake and Vietnamese lunar new year cake.
This dish has a rich sweet taste from fish sauce combined with the crunchiness of papaya, kohlrabi, and carrot, which will enhance the flavors of your Tet dishes.
16 Tre
Tre is a specialty dish from Binh Dinh, but it is added to the Tet feast by many families in all regions. This dish can be prepared in various ways, especially as a main ingredient in salads or can be enjoyed alone as well.
First, when you bite into a piece of tre, you will immediately feel the slight sourness of tre stimulating your taste buds, followed by the rich fat of pork and a savory taste that can be dipped in chili sauce or eaten separately, making it irresistible.
17 Beef Cake
Looking at each piece of beef cake neatly arranged on the plate, you can immediately sense the Tet atmosphere approaching, filling your heart with excitement. The cake is chewy and savory with the natural sweetness of beef wrapped with a bit of fragrant pork fat, dipped into a bowl of spicy salt and pepper, oh so “perfectly made”.
If you have some free time, try making it at home with the recipe from Dien May XANH below, ensuring it is delicious and can be stored for a long time, allowing you to enjoy it during Tet without worrying about running out.
18 Braised Pork with Pickled Radish
If you’ve bought too much pork but don’t know what to combine it with, try making braised pork with pickled radish. This dish may be a bit unusual, but the result will surprise you; these two ingredients cook together in a way that’s just perfect.
Fresh three-layered pork combined with a bit of the fatty flavor of fat, eaten with fresh sweet cabbage, all create an indescribable flavor, remember to prepare a pot of hot rice to make the meal more complete!
19 Thin rice cake
For a long time, thin rice cake has appeared on the Tet feast table as a custom that no family can miss.
Although nowadays there are many other more delicious and beautiful types of cakes, they can never erase the sweet, fragrant, and airy taste of this cake in the minds of every Vietnamese person.
20 Braised pork with eggs
This is a delicious dish often used in family meals and is an indispensable part of the Tet feast. The dish is a combination of eggs, braised pork, and coconut water that is very delicious and appealing.
You can enjoy braised pork with white rice or pickled vegetables, both are very tasty. Check out the recipe below to showcase your skills, ensuring the authentic taste of home!
21 Bitter melon soup stuffed with meat
Bitter melon is a type of food that brings many health benefits. Especially when combined with meat and mushrooms, it enhances the nutrition of the dish. Perhaps that is why bitter melon soup is a great choice for many families during the Tet holiday.
This is a refreshing dish that cools down and symbolizes leaving behind bad luck and welcoming joy. So rush to the kitchen to make stuffed bitter melon soup for your family.
22 Pickled vegetables
With square cakes and round cakes, how can we miss the pickled vegetables to accompany them? This rustic and beloved dish is so special that just seeing it makes you feel the new year approaching, and spring is coming.
The characteristic fragrant smell along with the crunchy, sweet-and-sour taste of pickled shallots makes everyone fall in love. This Tet, prepare a jar of delicious and appealing pickled shallots for your family right away, as it can be stored for a long time, so it needs to be done now.
23 Pickled Radish
Besides pickled shallots, pickled radish is also a popular side dish. If you don’t like the slightly pungent taste of pickled shallots, go for pickled radish instead; this dish is delicious without the risk of getting a runny nose.
Each piece of crunchy, crisp radish absorbs the bold flavors, paired with a piece of sticky rice cake, oh my, you just can’t stop eating. Don’t forget to put it in the fridge to keep the radish crunchy and store it for longer!
24 Sour Pickled Cabbage
If you’re tired of the greasy dishes during Tet, sour pickled cabbage will be an extremely refreshing and equally appealing choice for you. The fresh crunch of the cabbage combined with the sweet-and-sour flavor creates a unique taste that’s hard to resist.
If you want something richer, you can stir-fry the sour pickled cabbage with meat to eat with hot rice, which is also a good option. Try spending a little time making it at home; it’s not only delicious but also ensures hygiene.
25 Sausage
Although sausage originates from China, it has been present in Vietnamese cuisine for a long time, especially on Tet holiday tables. Sausage has a beautiful pink-red color, a fatty flavor from the fat, a fragrant aroma from the char siu seasoning and Mai Que Lo wine, and a chewy texture.
Making delicious sausages is not too difficult or time-consuming at all. You can completely make sausages at home by following the detailed instructions below.
26 Tet Cake
Along with Banh Chung, Banh Tet is an important part of the traditional Tet holiday. The method of making Banh Tet is a bit more complicated and requires more ingredients than Banh Chung. Banh Tet symbolizes abundance and warmth passed down from generation to generation. There are also many types of Banh Tet for you to choose from, including savory, vegetarian, sweet, no filling, and mixed filling…
27 Sticky Rice Cake
You might think that sticky rice cake only appears in everyday life; however, it is also present on the Tet feast table as a distinctive feature that cannot be overlooked.
A bowl of sticky rice cake is soft, fragrant, and incredibly tempting. You can also enjoy it paired with other dishes to enhance the overall flavor. The method of making it is very simple, so why wait any longer to get into the kitchen and show off your skills!
Hope this article summarizing 27 essential dishes in the Tet feast shared by Dien May XANH will give you more options for your family’s feast. Let’s get in the kitchen right away, Tet is just around the corner!
