Craving an exciting culinary adventure? These 21 Vietnamese recipes are your passport to a vibrant and flavorful world.
From iconic street snacks to comforting classics, get ready to whip up a delicious taste of Vietnam in your own kitchen!
1. Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad
This dish is another example of healthy and yummy food from Vietnam! It features tender rice noodles, succulent chicken thighs, and crispy raw veggies and fresh herbs.
Everything is coated in nuoc cham, a quintessential Vietnamese ingredient. With sweet, spicy, sour, and salty notes, it brings this sensational recipe together.
This recipe is gorgeous, and requires minimal use of the stovetop, so you can make it even when it’s hot outside!
2. Peanut Sticky Rice
Prepare to experience a rice dish unlike anything you’ve tried before! With subtle sweet and savory undertones, the taste is so delicious. The texture is achieved with sticky rice and creamy coconut milk.
A mixture of shredded coconut, roasted peanuts, and toasted sesame seeds, sugar and salt are scattered on top to bring it all together. This dish makes a great breakfast or snack.
3. Pandan Waffles
Besides offering a lovely sweet experience, these pandan waffles will scent up your kitchen with a wonderful fragrance.
An extra bonus comes from the chewy center. It’s that good! A pleasing contrast to the gentle core is the crispy exterior.
The coconut cream brings a distinct coconut-y flavor to every mouthful, as well.
4. Lemongrass Chicken
This lemongrass chicken is definitely one of the tastiest chicken dishes anywhere!
Sweet chili sauce and red curry paste are just some of the ingredients that make up the marinade. The chicken is so juicy that it will become an instant hit!
To create a full Asian-style experience, pair with coconut-infused jasmine rice.
5. Banh Mi
Banh mi is one of Vietnam’s best-loved street foods. It consists of a delicate, airy baguette filled with meats, pickled vegetables, fresh herbs, and seasonings. There are countless ways to prepare it, thanks to the many banh mi stores cropping up all over Vietnam and internationally.
This specific recipe replaces chicken or pork with marinated tofu to make it vegetarian-friendly. Sriracha and mayo give extra heat and creaminess.
6. Pok Pok Wings
The spiced fish sauce glaze and deep-frying makes these chicken wings extremely tasty.
You’ll be hooked for good! These wings have a flavorful, complex taste with just the right amount of salt, and just a touch of sweetness. An additional boost of fragrance and crunchiness comes from fried garlic, mint, and cilantro that are sprinkled on top.
7. Vietnamese Boiled Cabbage
In Vietnamese families, you’ll almost always find boiled cabbage as a quick and simple side dish. The cabbage is, as you may expect, boiled till it’s delicate.
The dipping sauce is what really makes it stand out. With lime juice, chili peppers, and fish sauce, it is seasoned with hard-boiled egg.
8. Vietnamese Fish Sauce
The wide variety of sauces in Vietnam is well-known, but due to its use in so many recipes, fish sauce is king. Fish sauce provides that savory touch, from rice noodles to spring rolls and Vietnamese crepes.
Simply mix pure fish sauce with lemonade, sugar, and water to create the dipping sauce.
9. Vietnamese Papaya Salad
Here’s a crunchy and nutritious summertime salad with raw veggies, peanuts, and papaya!
A touch of sweetness is achieved with orange papaya, while a gently spiced lime dressing delivers freshness and zest.
10. Prawn and Sweet Potato Fritters
The prawn and sweet potato fritters make another crispy and delicious snack. This meal, which is well-known as street food in northern Vietnam, offers a superb crispy experience!
The greatest fritters depend on getting the batter just right. It needs to have a texture similar to pancake batter, so it is not overly thick, but still solid enough to keep the prawn and sweet potato sticks in place.
You will only need a couple of items from the cupboard for this.
For a satisfying dinner, serve with fresh herbs and lettuce, then dunk it all in fish sauce.
11. Vietnamese Mung Bean Dumplings
Enjoy these delightfully soft mung bean dumplings for a change of pace.
Sweet and savory flavors define the mung bean filling, which is seasoned with salt, pepper, and onions. The shrimp or pork that are often included in traditional mung bean dumplings can be omitted to veganize the meal.
12. Vietnamese Crepes
All throughout the north, south, and central regions of Vietnam, you will find these extremely popular crepes. These crispy crepes are loaded with flavor and crispy goodness thanks to the pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts.
These savory fried pancakes are taken to the next level when dipped in a lime juice-fish sauce dipping sauce!
13. Vietnamese Caramel Sauce
You’ll frequently find caramel sauce, or nuoc mau, in Vietnam’s cuisine as a dark, light liquid that may be used as a seasoning for all meals. It is often used in savory meals to give a subtle backdrop of both smoky and sweet undertones to the overall flavor.
This dish requires just three things: water, cane sugar, and vinegar. The last ingredient thins out the sauce that is created when the sugar and vinegar are heated.
14. Vietnamese Caramel Shrimp
Do you want to know where to put that delectable caramel sauce?That’s where this shrimp recipe enters the picture!
The aromatics are sautéed with the shrimp before the thickened caramel sauce is added.For increased flavor, fish sauce, scallions, and black pepper are added.
You wind up with a quick and delicious shrimp recipe!
15. Vietnamese Mango Salad
It’s not every day that you get a mango salad that is equally sweet and sour. With this recipe, now you can!
In addition to being easy to prepare, this Hanoi street snack also tastes great. Cilantro, peanuts, and shallots are also ingredients in the salad. Fish sauce, lime juice, and rice wine vinegar are combined to make the dressing.
16. Purple Yam Soup
This purple yam soup is simply gorgeous, creamy, and delectable unlike any other you have tried.
It begins with its vibrant purple hue! Flavorful prawns and fish slices make up its second layer.
For another layer of taste, the soup is created using chicken stock. Last of all, fragrant herbs and fresh spices make the recipe utterly delicious.
17. Vietnamese Fried Tofu
If you are seeking a new dish to add to your rotation this week, then consider this one! Vietnamese fried tofu is incredibly tasty and can be on the table in a mere 20 minutes.
Fry the pieces until they are crisp, making sure to preserve the delicate interior. The dish can be devoured as is or with rice after dipping in a delectable blend of fish sauce and scallions.
So easy!
18. Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Vietnamese spring rolls show that food that’s good for you can also be satisfying and scrumptious! Inside rice paper wrappers are fruits, proteins, and veggies galore! You can use whatever you like, such as carrots, cucumbers, avocado, and shrimp!
Just roll them up like a burrito, slice in half, and serve with a peanut dipping sauce that is both simple and flavorful. They’re ideal as a light dinner on meatless Monday, or even as an appetizer!
19. Vietnamese Shrimp Tacos
Prepare to spice up your Taco Tuesdays with these nutritious tacos. They feature Asian salsa, fresh herbs, veggies, and marinated shrimp!
The tastes of coconut sugar, lime juice, and traditional Vietnamese spices fill the shrimp. A combination of spicy and tangy flavors will energize your palate thanks to the salsa and pickled veggies.
20. Vietnamese Garlic Butter Noodles
With both buttery and garlicky notes, this noodle recipe that takes 20 minutes to prepare makes for a comforting weeknight meal. The garlic-butter sauce, which coats al dente egg noodles, gets its flavor from a bit of sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce and fish sauce.
For a more elegant touch, consider topping with parmesan cheese.