Steamed Soft-shell Turtle with Ginger (Ba Ba Hấp Gừng) has been recognized as a meal for recent years, but it quickly becomes one of traditional food in Vietnam and attracts a big number of diners around Vietnam. When you visit
here, especially Hanoi Capital, make sure you will not miss them.
Soft-shell
turtle’s meat is delicious and now they are feed in the big number for
getting meat purpose. According to some medicine book in Vietnam, the
soft-shell turtle’s meat can enrich the people’s blood, reducing the hot
temperature in human’s body, good for kidney and increase the power and
energy for man.
Like many other Traditional Vietnamese Food,
this dish requires to have a fresh ingredients to create a stunning
dish. Soft-shell turtles usually live in the bottom of the lake, river,
and marches, they eat a lot, but they hardly grow up. They are so
aggressive in the water, but they scare the big sound and hide in deep
water when hearing it. Soft-shell turtles are well- known as a delicious
ingredient for cooking, there are some popular meal which make from
soft-shell turtles such as soft-shell turtles cooking with banana,
grilled soft-shell turtles. In recent years, however, there is new one
style of cooking which is steamed soft-shell turtle with ginger which
was created by Chí Phương chef.
To make this Traditional Vietnamese Food,
you firstly collect one turtles which weight around 800g-1000g, the big
one is hard for eating and the small one is not good for eating. After
cleaning the turtles, cut it into small pieces and add the ingredients.
Next, boiled one hot water, adding the salt, fish sauce and especially
ginger which is sliced into small pieces and wine. After boiled the
turtles into the hot water 20 minutes, take it out the pot and add some
ginger to it. Now, you can enjoy this dish.
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