Curry is a familiar dish that has long been a staple, boasting a rich flavor and a distinctively delicious taste of Vietnamese cuisine. Today, let’s explore with the Cooking section of TasteVN 22 simple ways to cook curry that are delicious and authentic at home!
1. Coconut milk chicken curry
Chicken is one of the simple, delicious ingredients often used to prepare a variety of dishes. One of the delightful dishes that cannot be overlooked when talking about chicken is the tasty, rich, and creamy coconut milk chicken curry.
Once cooked, the chicken curry exudes a distinct aroma and has an appealing golden color. The chicken meat is cooked to absorb the spices, tender and juicy, paired with soft-cooked sweet potatoes and the fragrant, creamy coconut milk will satisfy any diner.
2. Beef curry
Beef curry is a familiar dish often seen at parties or important occasions to entertain guests. On chilly days, beef curry is an ideal dish for family meals gathered together.
A steaming bowl of beef curry, exuding an enticing aroma with tender, juicy beef. Carrots and potatoes are also simmered until soft, absorbing rich spices that help balance the dish.
The combination with bread or served alongside steaming hot white rice adds to the flavor, elevating the dish and making the atmosphere cozier and more intimate.
3. Indian vegetarian curry
When mentioning Indian cuisine – the kingdom of spices, it would be a significant oversight not to mention traditional curry. Accompanying spiritual and religious culture, Indians highly favor vegetarian dishes, and Indian vegetarian curry is one of the delicious, flavorful, and healthy dishes.
With a rich, smooth sauce seasoned with various spices bringing distinctive flavors. The dish can be served with bread or white rice, and it’s very appetizing!
4. Goat Curry
Goat curry is also cooked with the familiar ingredients and spices of curry, but uniquely, after the dish is completed, it will have an incredibly attractive aroma characteristic of goat meat. The goat meat is tender, sweet, and juicy, very delicious when eaten with the rich broth, sweet potatoes, and fragrant taro.
The dish will taste even better when you serve it with rice, noodles, or bread, and don’t forget a bowl of salted lime chili to dip the goat meat in!
5. Duck Curry
Duck cooked in curry is one of the familiar and popular cooking methods among Vietnamese people due to its deliciousness and the harmonious flavor of these ingredients. Especially, duck meat has a very unique flavor, chewy and delicious, with a characteristic aroma, now even more attractive when cooked with curry spices and coconut milk. Potatoes are cooked until soft and creamy, perfectly suitable to eat with duck meat.
The dish is presented in a characteristic eye-catching yellow color, spreading aroma and warmth throughout your family’s kitchen. Served with duck curry, there are many options from noodles, bread to steamed rice, all of which are very fragrant and appealing.
6. Japanese Curry
Chicken curry is a delicious and nutritious dish that seems to have become familiar to everyone. However, each variation of this dish carries its own unique characteristics and distinct flavors from its place of origin. For Japanese curry, the strong aroma of Japanese curry is unmistakable from the curries of any other country.
Moreover, the dish is very visually appealing with the combination of colors from various ingredients such as red carrots, yellow potatoes,…
This dish offers a taste that is both familiar and unique, making it suitable for gatherings or weekends when family and friends come together to enjoy each other’s company.
7. Indian Curry
Curry is no longer a strange dish to Vietnamese people, and there are many unique variations with interesting combinations that create an appealing flavor. However, have you ever thought about using mango as an ingredient to cook curry? Or have you ever heard of a recipe for curry with a thick orange-red sauce made from tomatoes?
The mango chicken curry has a beautiful yellow-brown color, a fragrant aroma from curry powder, and the sweet scent of mango that brings a new sensation. Meanwhile, the Indian chicken curry with tomato sauce has an eye-catching orange-red color, an enticing aroma from butter and spices, and when eaten, you can feel a mild spiciness mixed with a bit of creaminess.
The chicken pieces are both chewy and tender, deliciously appealing combined with the creamy and slightly sweet and sour flavor from the curry sauce, even tastier when served with hot sticky rice or bread.
8. Pork Curry
If chicken curry, duck curry, goat curry, or vegetarian curry variants have become too familiar to you. If you want to try something new while still preserving the distinctive flavor of your favorite curry. Then let’s try a unique curry recipe with the combination of fragrant, delicious fatty pork ribs with TasteVN.
Pork ribs have a characteristic aroma and rich taste, now cooked with curry to enhance the soft meat flavor, sweet bones, and are not at all dry or greasy. The gentle, pleasant aroma of mushrooms along with the rich, sweet taste of sweet potatoes, taro, and cute round cassava balls will surprise you.
9. Green Curry
Green curry is a signature dish of Thailand with a delicious and unique flavor. Not only that, but the unique and novel color of the dish created by green chili, lemongrass, lime leaves,… also excites many diners.
The curry sauce has a characteristic aroma and is extremely eye-catching, which you can use to make various dishes related to this green curry sauce. Not only does it carry the characteristic spiciness of Thai cuisine, but green curry also has a very unique sweetness, suitable for cooking with seafood or popular meats including beef, pork, chicken, and fish balls.
10. Venison curry
Curry is a familiar dish in family gatherings. In addition to the usual ingredients commonly used to make curry such as beef, chicken, goat meat,… venison is now also a wonderful choice.
Venison is tender, sweet potatoes are chewy, along with rich and fragrant curry sauce making the dish delightful. Curry served with bread, rice, or fresh noodles is delicious, easy to eat, and can easily suit everyone’s taste.
11. Seafood curry
Thailand is a country with a unique and rich culinary tradition. When it comes to Thai curry, in addition to the traditional green curry, seafood curry is also one of the highlights of this national cuisine.
Seafood curry has a beautiful yellow color, occasionally carrying the characteristic aroma of curry, combined with fresh, sweet seafood and a rich broth creating a balanced, harmonious dish that evokes nostalgia.
12. Crab curry
Crab is a delicious ingredient, rich in nutrients, and favored by many. However, due to its very distinctive flavor, crab is one of those ingredients that can be quite “picky” in dishes. If you want to try a unique recipe to change up your favorite crab dish, why not try crab curry from TasteVN.
The crab curry is golden yellow, rich and fragrant with coconut milk, and the crab meat absorbs the spices with a hint of the characteristic curry aroma, served with bread for a delightful experience.
13. Clam curry
Clams can be cooked in many different dishes, incredibly diverse, one of which is the delicious clam curry. Clam curry is a dish that blends the fragrant, spicy aroma of curry, the rich, sweet coconut curry sauce with the distinctive clam flavor. You will definitely be amazed after tasting the first bite.
The clam curry is rich with coconut milk but not overwhelming, on the contrary, it stimulates the appetite of the whole family with clam curry for the weekend.
14. Fish Curry
Spanish mackerel and salmon are two familiar ingredients for home cooks with countless attractive recipes. Curry is also a dish that is quite familiar to Vietnamese families. So what if you combine them together to create a delicious and unique Spanish mackerel and salmon curry?
The Spanish mackerel curry is fragrant with the aroma of various spices and the distinctive flavor of Spanish mackerel, the broth is incredibly fragrant and rich, with a sweet and salty taste that will make you sigh with satisfaction when paired with bread or rice noodles. Meanwhile, salmon curry is a novel curry cooking recipe, with a delicious and unusual flavor. The soft and fatty salmon meat blends with the sour sauce along with the fragrance of various ingredients, and the spicy heat of chili served with hot rice will make you unable to stop eating!
15. Squid Curry
Hong Kong squid curry once made waves in culinary communities due to its unique flavor, novelty, and deliciousness. Each piece of squid is cut to bite size, beautifully scored and cooked thoroughly soaked in rich and smooth curry sauce.
The squid is both crispy and chewy, bringing a very unique taste to the dish, served with a rich and fragrant curry sauce made from coconut milk and various curry spices, offering a flavor that is both familiar and refreshingly novel.
This will surely be a breakthrough in your kitchen, making family meals more interesting.
16. Laksa Curry
Laksa is a very popular dish in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and southern Thailand. In Thailand, the dish “Laksa Curry,” often referred to as “red curry,” is cooked very spicy with ingredients such as shrimp, fish cake, tofu,…
The pot of curry emits a fragrant aroma with a striking yellow color. You will experience the sweet and light taste of the broth made from shrimp shells, the rich creaminess of coconut milk, and the spicy kick of ginger and chili. The dish becomes even more unique when combined with the fatty and chewy tofu. When eating, you can add some bean sprouts to balance the dish!
17. Lamb Curry
Curry is a rustic, familiar dish now combined with lamb, one of the finest and most challenging ingredients to prepare, will elevate the dish to a new level.
The dish has an eye-catching appearance, stimulating the sense of smell with the warm, fragrant aroma of cinnamon and the distinctive smell of curry. The lamb ribs are seasoned just right, absorbing the spices evenly, and if cooked properly, they are tender, juicy, and flavorful. When you eat it, you will feel the spiciness combined with the richness, and you will definitely be captivated by this dish.
18. Frog curry
While Singapore frog porridge is currently shaking up the Asian culinary market, another dish that is equally unique and delicious with frog is frog curry.
Frog curry has an eye-catching turmeric yellow color, incredibly delicious with the creamy taste of fresh milk and the nutty flavor of taro. The frog meat is soft and fragrant but still retains its characteristic chewy and crunchy texture, absorbing the enticing curry spices. When serving, you can add a few leaves of Vietnamese coriander to the hot curry and enjoy it with bread or rice noodles, both are tasty.
19. Fish ball curry
Fish balls are a familiar snack, very popular among children. Now, this unique and delicious fish ball curry recipe is sure to conquer even the pickiest eaters.
Fish balls are cooked until soft and chewy, submerged in curry sauce. The creamy taste of coconut milk, the nutty flavor of taro, and the rich curry combine to create a wonderful dish. You can enjoy this dish with bread or rice, and it will be very delicious!
20. Curry Rice
Rice is an indispensable part of the daily meal menu for Vietnamese families. There are many creative recipes to combine rice with other dishes, creating appealing and delicious recipes that change the flavor of the usual white rice.
Curry rice with sausage has a special aroma and color from Japanese curry powder. The slightly spicy curry flavor, when served with fragrant fried eggs and crispy sausages, will surely give you a unique taste, quite different from the curries you have had before.
Additionally, the curry rice with pork belly has an enticing aroma and a characteristic dark yellow color of curry. The rich flavor of the curry sauce blends with the chewy texture of minced pork, especially the crunchy and pungent flavor of fried garlic and the tender richness of pan-seared pork belly.
21. Curry fish ball noodles
Noodle dishes are considered a hallmark of Chinese cuisine with many variations from dry noodles to soup noodles. Dishes are often paired with beef, char siu, seafood, etc. Today, TasteVN will introduce you to an incredibly attractive innovative recipe, which is the authentic fragrant curry fish ball noodles that make meals more appealing and aromatic.
The broth is rich and flavorful, cooked to the taste of the Chinese, with the aromatic curry blending harmoniously with the mild spiciness of chili and pepper, enhancing the dish’s deliciousness. The noodles are perfectly cooked, fresh and soft but not mushy, served with fragrant, chewy fish balls that are evenly infused with spices, combined with bok choy to create a balanced dish that is more enticing and not overwhelming, making you unable to put down your chopsticks to enjoy.
22. Curry Udon Noodles
Udon noodles are a distinctive traditional dish of the land of cherry blossoms, with noodles and broth that are unmistakable. Therefore, it would be a huge oversight to skip curry udon noodles on this list. Let’s explore 3 incredibly appealing ways to make udon noodles at home with the cooking section.
The most familiar is beef curry udon, which gives us the chewy, smooth texture of the noodles, tender beef that is not tough, and the naturally sweet dashi broth. This is a familiar beef curry recipe now paired with unique udon noodles that will surely surprise your taste buds.
Curry mushroom udon impresses with the deliciously chewy noodles, served with a rich, fragrant curry broth that blends with the natural sweet flavor of shiitake mushrooms, creating an enticing and unusual taste.
With a slightly Western twist, we have cheesy curry udon, served with a rich broth that carries the distinct flavor of curry, all creating a harmonious Asian-European combination for the dish.
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The above is an article guiding 22 curry cooking methods that are authentic, delicious, rich, and extremely simple and easy to execute, which anyone can do. Wishing you success with these recipes!