Free Downloads Quick & Easy Vietnamese: 75 Everyday Recipes
From the author of the popular Quick & Easy Thai come these 75 oh-so-delicious recipes for every level of cook. Though it shares certain culinary traditions with its Asian neighbors, Vietnamese cuisine is entirely distinct, focusing on a bounty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs for signature clear, bright flavors with contrasting notes of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy. Creamy chicken curry is paired with the zesty tang of lime juice and the heat from ground pepper and chilies. Crisp, fried fish is served with a puree of pineapple-chili sauce. Delicate, rice paper wrapped summer rolls merit a rich and savory soybean dipping sauce. From snacks and soups to grilled meats and seafood to the essential noodle dishes and desserts, Quick & Easy Vietnamese presents the full spectrum of Vietnamese cooking at its most simply delicious.
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books (November 10, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081184434X
ISBN-13: 978-0811844345
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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Though I grew up in the states, my family is of Vietnamese descent and I travelled (and ate) my way through Vietnam, especially Hanoi. This book was my first attempt at making Vietnamese food at home and boy am I impressed at how AUTHENTIC it is to what I ate in Vietnam and in local Vietnamese restaurants. I'll think twice about eating out now that I know how easy it is to make at home.
I love Vietnamese cuisine, and this book allows me to easily incorporate it into my everyday diet. The ingredients are easy to find in chain grocery stores and I can use ingredients I buy in multiple recipes, making the book economical. I recommend preparing your own chicken stock (have it on hand in freezer). It improves the taste of the recipes. I grow my own Vietnamese herbs in the summer, and the book will give me lots of opportunity to use them on the fly. I have also lost a little weight cooking from this book because the dishes are flavorful (be sure to use the Everyday Dipping Sauce) and healthy, and replaced microwaved and canned meals. Many books may be more in-depth, and not every dish is absolutely fantastic, but if you need something for the busy weekdays, this is a good choice.
Let me first say that the bar was set very high: McDermott's Quick and Easy Thai is a masterpiece.These recipes are also delicious, and the ones I've tried have been easy. However, they're not nearly as quick and easy as the ones in the Thai book.What makes them not so quick? In a word, ingredients. Most recipe has lots of them, so there's a lot of measuring/chopping going on before you cook.Also, if you're a European American like me, you don't have these ingredients lying around, so a trip to an Asian market is a necessity, at least to stock up in the beginning.But don't let this deter you! Make fish sauce and lemon grass part of your standard staples, and McDermott does have an excellent section on ingredients, how to find them, and which are most important.The recipes also have notes on what to do if you can't find something: suggestions for substitutions or just leaving things out (though again, not as many as the Thai book.) These recipes are delicious and have complex flavors, so even if you leave something out it'll still be good.So to sum up, this is a great cookbook, but if you want to enter the world of SE Asian cooking, go with McDermott's Quick and Easy Thai first.
I am a working mom who wants to eat better, cook more, and lose some weight. My husband and I spend way too much money dining out, and we don't really know what we're eating. I wanted to find some cookbooks that could help us cook at home more often without sacrificing flavor. We love Asian food, but I've always been intimidated by the idea of cooking it, and a lot of the ready made mixes taste more 'American' than Asian.I researched this book pretty heavily through user reviews, and using 's Look Inside feature to really verify whether I'd be likely to actually cook the dishes. The recipes are pretty simple! As long as you have access to things like lemongrass and fish oil, which near me in California is sold at every major grocery store, anyone could make these recipes. They only have a few ingredients, and don't require difficult technique. You may not have all the ingredients in your fridge, but once you acquire the right supplies these are easy recipes.Tip: At several supermarkets near me you can buy tubes of lemongrass paste (sort of like pre-chopped garlic) in the herbs section. For those of us who don't know a lot about preparing or selecting lemongrass, this is an easy cheat that can help make these dishes even more approachable!
The Good:I use this cookbook all the time, and every dish I've made from it has turned out great. Several have become family favorites: "Big, Cool Noodle Bowl with Roast Chicken, Cucumbers, and Fresh Mint" (p. 133), "Shrimp Fried Rice" (p. 122), and "Crab and Asparagus Soup" (p. 50) to name a few.The recipes are clear and easy to follow.The photographs are plentiful and accurately portray the dishes.It's a small thing, but the flaps on the front and back covers are very helpful since I usually make more than one dish from this cookbook at a time, and it saves me flipping back and forth.The Bad:There are a few recipes I haven't been able to try yet because I can't find the ingredients. Note: this is my own fault--I'm an American living in Germany and I just haven't taken the time & effort to translate the names of the ingredients and go to a local Asian grocery.The Verdict:I like this cookbook so much I got one for my adult children, who also use it.
This recipes are very easy to follow, especially for beginners. Some of the ingredients are not something that I could find in my local grocery store, so you may have to go to an Asian market. Spring rolls are easy to make and very delicious. This book made making food from other cultures less intimidating and more enjoyable.
This is a great fundamental vietnamese food cookbook. I received this as a present because I love to eat Vietnamese food but never took the time to learn how to cook it from my mom.Now that I no longer live in an area with a big vietnamese community, I'm finding it more and more necessary to cook the food myself so that I get my fix.What I love about this cookbook:nancie mcdermott keeps things very simplethe flavors are right onsimple cooking techniquesshort ingredient listspictures! (you need to know what it's supposed to look like, right?)Basically, I have three beefs with cookbooks: 1) extremely long or hard to find ingredient lists, which is overwhelming, 2) the outcome that, in spite of buying all the ingredients and putting in the effort, the food still tastes bad, and 3) food that uses a lot of obscure techniques or a lot of pots and pans.Nancie Mcdermott rocks for realizing all of this and honestly, yes, the recipes are pretty good! You can tell she has eaten a lot of vietnamese food, and a lot of the recipes are one pot meals, healthy, and also list ways to use leftovers, so that you don't buy something for one dish and then have no idea what to do with it afterwards (another pet peeve of mine). You can tell she has run many a kitchen and is creative with leftovers.oh yeah, another reason this cookbook is great - she really tries to help you figure out the vietnamese name of what you're cooking, and the index has a list of dishes by the letter it starts with in vietnamese as well as t in english. just in case you want to test your cooking against a restaurant's (trust me, your stir-fry, with nancie's help, is probably fresher)Until I get to eat my mom's vietnamese, I am sticking with nancie mcdermott.
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