The stories shared during the Tet holiday certainly cannot lack delicious snacks. Today, the specialized section Cooking Tips from TasteVN will help you compile 20 delicious and attractive snacks that are extremely easy to make at home!
1 Dried Foods
Dried Beef
Dried beef is a familiar dish for Vietnamese people during the Tet holidays. This dish not only has a simple preparation method but also boasts a delicious flavor. Each tender, fragrant slice of meat retains the natural sweetness of beef and is combined with rich, savory, and slightly spicy seasonings that are extremely appealing.
When enjoying, you can dip the dried beef with a bit of chili sauce, and sipping on some cold beer will make the dish even more wonderful!
Dried Chicken
Following the predecessor “dried beef,” dried chicken has also become a name that leaves a significant impression on snack lovers. This dish can be easily made at home using an oven or even an air fryer with just a few simple ingredients.
The strands of dried chicken are coated in a golden hue from annatto powder, fragrant and with a perfectly balanced salty-sweet flavor mixed with a bit of spiciness on the tip of your tongue, guaranteed to make you absolutely love it!
Dried Squid
Dried squid is a dish that is very familiar to many people, especially to those who enjoy drinking. Besides the traditional grilling method, you can now transform this dried dish into many different delicious dishes such as: sautéed with satay, sautéed with fish sauce, garlic fried, or caramelized with sugar,…
The dried squid is soft, chewy, and incredibly sweet and fragrant, perfectly blended with new tantalizing spices. Check out some simple, delicious dried squid recipes below; you will definitely not be disappointed!
Dried Shrimp
You might think dried shrimp is primarily used for soups, but now you can utilize this common ingredient to create many incredibly delicious snacks.
There are sun-dried shrimp, dried shrimp sautéed with fish sauce, dried shrimp with pickled onions,… just hearing about them is already enticing. The preparation only takes a few minutes, making it very suitable for those who are reluctant to cook. Check out the recipes below to make them!
Dried Fish
Dried fish with its aromatic scent and characteristic salty taste mixed with the sweet aftertaste from the meat will surely thrill drinkers when paired with beer or wine. This dried dish is not only easy to make, delicious, but also has a long shelf life. Just make a little, then store it in the fridge, and you can enjoy it throughout the Tet holiday!
Dry Pork
If buying beef seems a bit expensive for you, try switching to pork! With just an air fryer, you can have delicious and attractive dry pork.
The result is quite similar to dry beef, with each piece of dry pork being tender yet chewy, savory, sweet, and slightly spicy, surely providing you with a unique snack to change up the flavor.
2 Pickled Pig Ears
Pickled Pig Ears
Pickled pig ears are considered a “lifesaver” for your taste buds whenever you get tired of greasy dishes during Tet. When making it, you just need to clean the pig ears thoroughly, then boil them until cooked and soak them in vinegar and sugar for a week before enjoying.
The pig ears are crunchy and chewy, soaked in sweet and sour pickling liquid, slightly salty, served with crunchy vegetables, ensuring a delicious delight.
Pig Ears in Fish Sauce
Similarly, you can also soak pig ears in fish sauce mixed with vinegar to experience the fragrant, salty, sour, and sweet flavors. All these flavors linger on your tongue, providing an irresistible delicious taste.
3 Five-Spice Pork Ears Roll
Another delicious dish that TasteVN wants to introduce to you is the five-spice pork ears roll. The pig ears are crunchy and chewy, combined with extremely delicious and enticing spices.
Moreover, this dish becomes even more delicious when served with bánh chưng and bánh tét, and you won’t have to worry about getting tired of it.
4 Marinated Beef Brisket
Beef Brisket in Fish Sauce
Change the flavor for delicious dishes during Tet with beef brisket marinated in fish sauce. The brisket is crunchy, slightly chewy, and has a moderate sweetness, perfectly blending with the marinated fish sauce to create a very tasty dish. For this dish, you should choose pieces of brisket with a bit more connective tissue to fully enjoy the flavors!
Sweet and Sour Marinated Beef Brisket
TasteVN suggests another extremely attractive option with sweet and sour marinated beef brisket. Each slice of meat has a fragrant aroma, tender texture, and is blended with the rich sweet and sour flavor mixed with a hint of spiciness from fresh chili, making it delicious whether eaten alone or served with white rice!
Marinated Beef Brisket in Soy Sauce
Just a slight change in seasoning can give you a delicious and unique soy sauce marinated beef brisket. The beef is simmered until tender, then soaked for 1-2 days in a mixture of soy sauce to create an extremely eye-catching final product.
The pieces of meat have a light brown color, are tender and fragrant, while the soy sauce is rich, lightly sweet, and slightly spicy, ensuring that anyone who tastes it will be amazed at how good it is.
5 Marinated Pork
Pork in Fish Sauce
If you’re familiar with the usual dishes during Tet, you might want to try changing it up with marinated pork in fish sauce. The pork, after being cleaned, is boiled until cooked and then soaked in a mixture of fish sauce and sugar for 3 days.
When eating, simply slice it thinly and enjoy it with white rice or wrap it in rice paper with fresh herbs. The rich and fatty flavor of the pork belly soaked in fish sauce is sure to stimulate your taste buds.
Fermented Pork
Fermented pork is known as a specialty dish in Phu Tho, Northern Vietnam. The meat is mixed evenly with salt and rice powder, then fermented in a sealed jar with guava leaves for 3 to 4 days before it can be consumed.
The finished dish has a light sour taste from the meat, the rich flavor of the powder and guava leaves, along with the spicy kick of garlic and chili. All the ingredients blend together to create a dish with a rich flavor that is extremely delicious.
6 Pork Sausage (Giò Lụa)
Pork sausage (Giò Lụa) is a familiar dish during the Tet holiday for Vietnamese people. Try your hand at making this dish to ensure safety and enjoy the most flavorful version of this delicious food.
The sausage is chewy and flavorful with the natural sweetness of pork, which can be eaten on its own or combined with other ingredients to create extremely delicious dishes. Let’s get cooking!
7 Colorful Sausage
Another attractive and visually appealing dish that you cannot miss is colorful sausage. With its eye-catching colors, fragrant aroma, and sweet, rich, and chewy taste, this sausage will certainly not disappoint you. Serve it with a bit of spicy chili sauce for the perfect combination. Enjoy your meal!
8 Salted Pork Leg
Salted pork leg has a chewy outer skin, with tender, naturally sweet meat inside, evenly soaked in soy sauce and extremely delicious spices. This is definitely a tasty snack you cannot miss to treat guests coming to your house during the Tet holiday!
9 Pork Roll
A delicious dish that cannot be missed during the Tet holiday of the Vietnamese is pork roll. This dish combines crunchy pig’s ear, slightly fatty with the aroma from wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and spices, which after being tightly rolled become extremely crispy and appealing.
It pairs well with banh chung, banh tet or sticky rice, making a delightful and tasty meal!
10 Cold Meat Jelly
Cold meat jelly is a traditional dish in the Tet meal of Northern Vietnam. Many people may find it quite strange when they first hear about it, but TasteVN assures you that you will fall in love when you taste this dish.
The cold meat jelly is soft and delicious, rich and creamy, mixed with the slight chewiness of wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, dipped in fish sauce, and adding a bit of pickled mustard greens, pickled onion makes it undeniably delicious.
11 Chinese Sausage
Chinese sausage is one of the essential dishes during Tet. Just taking a bite, you can immediately feel the crispiness, the rich flavor of the fatty sugar, the sweet aroma of the meat, along with a hint of spiciness from pepper.
Besides frying it crispy, you can use Chinese sausage to combine with other ingredients to make many delicious dishes such as: sticky rice with Chinese sausage, fried egg with Chinese sausage, Chinese sausage in tomato sauce,…
12 Spring Rolls
Spring rolls (or fried rolls) are an ideal dish to kick off your Spring party. With the blend of the rich flavor of pork along with sweet vegetables, wrapped in a crispy rice paper layer, spring rolls offer diners a very delicious and appealing taste.
In addition to the main ingredients, you can add a bit of minced shrimp or some types of mushrooms to enhance the flavor and make the dish even tastier!
13 Fermented Pork
Fermented pork is a special delicacy during Vietnamese holidays, well-known internationally for its delicious and enticing flavor. With a mild sour taste and crunchy texture, fermented pork can be enjoyed with chili sauce, coriander leaves, guava leaves, or fig leaves, all of which enhance the flavor. Show off your cooking skills and make it right away!
14 Pickled Lotus Stem
Lotus stem can be prepared into many delicious dishes such as lotus stem soup, lotus stem dessert, stir-fried lotus stem,… and we cannot forget about pickled lotus stem.
Get in the kitchen and make this delicious dish to enrich your holiday menu. Crispy and mildly sour lotus stem served with sticky rice cake will be absolutely delightful!
15 Pickled onions
A little sweet and sour, crunchy pickled onions will be the perfect accompaniment for banh chung, banh tet, frozen meat during this Lunar New Year. The method may seem difficult but is surprisingly easy; discover the following recipe to make it for the whole family to enjoy!
16 Sour pickled mustard greens
With many oily dishes during the New Year, adding a vegetable dish to balance the taste is essential, and sour pickled mustard greens are an ideal suggestion. After being pickled, they turn golden and crispy, with a sweet and sour taste that pairs perfectly with banh chung and banh tet, enhancing the delicious flavor.
17 Vietnamese kimchi
Unlike Korean kimchi, Vietnamese kimchi is richer as it is made from a variety of vegetables. Moreover, this dish has a much more intense sour and spicy flavor compared to the original version, ensuring you will be extremely satisfied with this variation!
18 Salted egg banh tet
A twist on the familiar banh tet for the New Year with salted egg banh tet. Basically, the dish retains familiar flavors such as the fragrant sticky rice, the sweet taste of mung beans, and the slightly fatty pork belly.
However, the delicious and rich salted egg is the main highlight that contributes to the uniqueness of this tasty dish. Just hearing about it sounds appealing, right? Let’s get into the kitchen and make it right away!
19 Grilled Char Siu Pork
Fragrant and appealing grilled char siu pork is definitely a dish you shouldn’t miss during the Tet holiday.
For this dish, you should choose pieces of pork belly, which contain both lean and fatty meat to make the char siu more delicious and not greasy. Serve char siu with white rice, sticky rice, or traditional cakes like bánh chưng and bánh tét to enhance the taste and enjoy it!
20 Shredded Chicken Salad
The last delicious dish that today’s article wants to introduce to you is shredded chicken salad. Chicken combined with various vegetables and spices will be tasty and not overwhelming.
Since the main ingredient of this dish is boiled chicken, you can also utilize any leftover boiled chicken, reheat it for preparation, and avoid waste. Enjoy your meal!
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It’s easy to prepare 20 delicious dishes for the Lunar New Year, isn’t it? TasteVN wishes you success with the recipes shared in the article, and don’t forget to leave your comments and suggestions in the comment section below!
