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During scorching summer days, people often crave for light, oil-free meals. Hence, PasGo is here to offer a menu of delightful dishes to beat the heat for your family. This provides ample choices for a leisurely meal while keeping the body cool and promoting effective health protection.
1. Summertime Delights: Assorted Salads
PasGo presents a selection of palate-cleansing salads:
1.1. Summer Delight: Banana Blossom Salad with Pork Ear
Banana blossom salad with pork ear is a delightful dish perfect for enjoying in the summer. This dish features fresh banana blossoms, which help cool the body and alleviate heat. Additionally, the blend of spices and fish sauce creates a refreshing, sweet, and unique flavor.
Crispy and Refreshing Pork Ear Salad
Banana blossom salad with pork ear is often served with fresh greens, providing fiber and vitamins from various vegetables, enhancing freshness and invigoration in the summer menu. Hence, it's an excellent choice for cooling off and indulging in during hot summer weather.
Summertime Delight: Bitter Melon with Shredded Pork
Bitter melon contains phytochemical compounds that can prevent diseases and improve health. Additionally, it is a rich source of vitamin A, which helps prevent dengue fever, blocks arterial plaque, supports cancer resistance, protects cardiovascular health, maintains stable blood sugar levels, improves vision, and aids digestion... Not only is it good for health, but it is also a refreshing dish for summer days. Slices of bitter melon chilled in ice, served with shredded pork, create an incredibly wonderful flavor. What are you waiting for? Give it a try!
Refreshing Salad: Pennywort Beef Salad
Pennywort is not only a common type of herb but also has valuable medicinal properties for health. Pennywort is widely used in beverages and soups with significant effectiveness. Especially during hot summer days, pennywort and beef provide additional nutritional benefits and excellent cooling effects.
Summertime Delight: Refreshing Beef Watercress Salad
Moreover, this beef watercress salad can be enjoyed immediately without the need for cooking, saving time and making it an excellent choice for lunch or dinner on hot days.
1.4. Seasonal Dish: Crispy and Delicious Pig Intestine Salad
In hot weather, crispy pig intestine salad brings freshness and allure. Fresh vegetables such as water spinach, basil, young mango, cucumber,... along with crispy pig intestines create a tasty combination and help cool the body. It is also particularly suitable as a chewy appetizer for husbands.
Summer Delight: Thai-Style Papaya Salad
Thai-style papaya salad is a perfect dish to enjoy in the summer. It offers a refreshing, rich, and sweet flavor, creating a less cloying sensation in the hot summer menu.
Papaya salad is often prepared with fresh ingredients such as green papaya, raw vegetables, onions, carrots, cabbage, and scallions. Crisp papaya combined with raw vegetables creates a harmonious and refreshing blend. Particularly, this dish is often served with sweet and sour seasoning, creating a unique balance of flavors.
2. Perfect Summer Soup Recipes
In the heat of summer, nothing beats the refreshing taste of chilled soups.
2.1. Tangy Tamarind Rib Soup
Summer is the time when tamarind becomes more popular than ever. Tamarind is used in many dishes, not only as a main ingredient but also as a tangy flavor enhancer. Among them, tangy tamarind rib soup, the perfect combination of tender sweet ribs and the cool sourness of tamarind, has become a favorite dish for many in the summer.
2.2. Summer Delight: Pickled Cucumber Fish Soup
Beat the heat with this refreshing dish of fish soup with pickled vegetables. Combining fresh fish and crisp pickled vegetables, it offers a unique and invigorating flavor.
In hot weather, fish soup with pickled vegetables provides a cooling sensation, quenching thirst and refreshing the body. The sweet and tangy pickled vegetables soothe while the delicious fish provides protein and essential nutrients, creating a nutritious meal.
Superbly Delicious Fish Soup with Pickled Vegetables
Moreover, fish soup with pickled vegetables is easy to prepare and suitable for the whole family. The combination of fish and pickled vegetables creates a balanced flavor, enhanced by ingredients like onions and tomatoes, resulting in a rich and enticing soup.
Refreshing Dưa and Fish Soup
In hot weather, this soup brings a cool and refreshing sensation. Pineapple adds a gentle sourness, alleviating any feeling of heaviness and enhancing the overall flavor. Fresh fish provides protein and essential nutrients, making it a nutritious meal.
Moreover, this soup is easy to prepare and suitable for the whole family. The combination of fish and pineapple creates a balanced flavor profile. With ingredients like onions, garlic, chili, and fish sauce, it becomes a flavorful and enticing dish.
Delicious Summer Dish: Tofu with Seaweed
In hot weather, Seaweed Tofu Soup brings a cool and refreshing sensation. Seaweed is rich in fiber and minerals, helping to balance body hydration and keeping the body cool. Tofu provides protein and essential nutrients, creating a nutritious meal. Moreover, Seaweed Tofu Soup is easy to prepare and suitable for the whole family.
Delicious Summer Soup: Field Crab Soup
Refreshing Meal with Field Crab and Eggplant Soup
Field crab soup is a signature dish in the summer, often cooked by combining fatty field crabs with vegetables like water spinach, Vietnamese balm, and sponge gourd. This soup is not only delicious and distinctive but also highly nutritious and refreshing. Adding a piece of pickled eggplant for its sour crunchiness truly enhances the flavor, making it irresistibly delicious.
2.6. Summer Delight: Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup
Stuffed bitter melon soup is a delightful concoction of various ingredients, a special dish often seen more during festive occasions, symbolizing the desire to overcome hardships. Additionally, this dish is fragrant, nutritious, and has a cooling effect on the body, especially during hot summer days.
Not limited to festive occasions, you can prepare this dish on regular days to add a delicious touch to family meals.
3. Summer Treat: Vermicelli Dish
Explore the Refreshing Flavors of Summer with Vermicelli:
3.1. Tangy Fish and Bamboo Shoot Vermicelli
During hot weather, tangy fish and bamboo shoot vermicelli is a must-try for summer. Bamboo shoots have a refreshing sour taste, provide moisture, and help cool the body. Fresh fish provides protein and essential nutrients, creating a nutritious meal.
Cool and Refreshing Tangy Fish and Bamboo Shoot Vermicelli for Summer Days
A tantalizing dish - sour fermented pork
Perhaps you're overly accustomed to the usual pork dishes - fried, braised, boiled, or stir-fried. Why not switch up your family's menu with the unique sour fermented pork dish? It's a common delicacy in the midland and northern regions of Vietnam.
With its distinctive sourness from the fermented meat, the crunchy texture of the skin, and the aromatic scent of roasted rice powder, sour fermented pork offers a rich and savory flavor. You can wrap the pork in rice paper or various leaves like fig, betel, or pepper, and enjoy it with sweet and sour fish sauce, accompanied by a cold beer that's simply irresistible.
So, spice up your family's menu with this enticing sour fermented pork dish; it'll bring a fresh and flavorful culinary experience to you and your loved ones.
4.2. Superb Steamed Squid
Steamed squid remains a fitting and delicious choice for summer. It brings a sense of lightness and freshness to your meal, making it an excellent option for scorching summer days. There are plenty of delicious dishes made from steamed squid that you can consider, such as: ginger lemongrass steamed squid, betel leaf steamed squid, beer-steamed squid, onion steamed squid,...
4.3. Sweet and Salty Braised Young Ribs
The sweet and salty braised young ribs dish that's simply irresistible
Tender young ribs, seasoned with a blend of garlic, pepper, honey, soy sauce, sesame oil, fish sauce, or other savory sauces, creating a unique flavor profile. This dish pairs excellently with rice or can be served as a topping for dry noodles.
If you crave the enticing sweet and savory flavors and seek a quick and delicious meal during the summer, sweet and savory glazed young ribs could be an excellent choice. Pair it with a bowl of fresh morning glory and luffa acutangula soup, and you have a nutritious summer feast!
5. Summertime Delight: Shrimp Dishes
Shrimp appears in various appetizers and delightful summer dishes within families. Examples include:
5.1. Coconut-infused Steamed Shrimp
Indulge in the Fragrant Delight of Coconut Steamed Shrimp
Shrimp is a versatile ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine, often featured in family meals. From crispy fried shrimp to shrimp steamed with lemongrass, shrimp porridge, grilled shrimp,... However, there's one dish perfect for summer made with shrimp: coconut-infused steamed shrimp. It's light, low in fat, yet irresistibly aromatic with the flavor of coconut.
5.2. Beer and Lemongrass Steamed Shrimp
Beer-infused Steamed Shrimp is a tantalizing and mouthwatering dish, often seen at parties or daily family meals. In the hot summer, when the weather is scorching, beer and lemongrass steamed shrimp can bring a feeling of lightness, freshness, and refreshment. The shrimp is steamed to perfection, retaining its freshness and crispness, along with the aroma of lemongrass and the special flavor from beer. The cooking method for this dish is very simple, taking only about 10 minutes to complete. Give it a try!
5.3. Rolled Shrimp and Meat with Cauliflower
To refresh your family meals, sometimes you should also explore new dishes, replacing familiar meat or fish dishes in every daily meal. Rolled cauliflower with shrimp is an excellent choice, not only without any greasiness making you feel nauseous, but also providing full nutritional content. Shrimp provides calcium for strong bones, while cauliflower is refreshing and sweet. This dish is very suitable for those who are on a weight loss diet or want to maintain their figure.
Hope you'll find delicious summer dishes to add to your daily family menu. Discover more enticing cooking recipes, follow PasGo Blog! A little tip to find many useful recipe-sharing articles is to scroll down to the RELATED ARTICLES section.
