Hello Hivers in the #foodiesbeehive community, have a nice day.
What spices do you usually use to cook your meals? I'm quite curious about that question. In Vietnam, we use a lot of different spices depending on the taste of each person, the dish or the region. However, there are basic spices that almost every Vietnamese kitchen has.
- Cooking oil is used in most dishes from frying, stir-frying, cooking soup.
- Fish sauce is a sauce created by soaking anchovies in salt and water in jars for many months. Fish sauce is a popular dipping sauce that can be eaten with most dishes from vegetables, meat, fish, and eggs. In addition, fish sauce is also used to cook dishes.
- Soy sauce is made from soybeans, which is also a popular sauce like fish sauce. For vegetarian meals, people use soy sauce instead of fish sauce.
- Salt, pepper and chili are definitely indispensable ingredients in meals.
- Glutamate, seasoning powder and sugar are spices used depending on the preferences of each person and region and each dish, but they are always available in the kitchen.
- Onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric, lemon and lemongrass are used depending on different dishes, but always at least one of them appears on the Vietnamese table.
- In addition, some other spices such as cinnamon, honey, shrimp paste, chilli sauce, tamarind, pineapple, star fruit, mustard, butter, mayonnaise... will be added when cooking a special dish.
In general, I find our cooking seasoning very diverse and rich, that's why we have a lot of different flavors of dishes. I'm really grateful for that. How about you?
