Top 13 Nourishing Winter Dishes and Easy Homemade Recipes

1. Beef and Vegetable Corn Soup

Combining vegetables with beef creates a delicious and hearty dish for the family dinner during the winter. The sweetness of corn and the fresh taste of vegetables make the meal even more delightful. With simple cooking steps, you can easily prepare a delicious soup.

Ingredients:

• Beef: 200g
• White radish: 1
• Carrot, onion: 1 each
• Tomato: 1 - 2
• Ginger, garlic, spring onion
• Other necessary seasonings

Instructions:

• Rinse the beef, slice thinly, and marinate with seasonings for about 30 minutes. Peel and slice the white radish and carrot into 1cm thick slices. Peel the onion, slice thinly. Peel and chop the garlic and ginger. Rinse the spring onion and drain.
• Cooking the soup: Heat a pot on the stove, add about 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. When the oil is hot, add the garlic and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.
• Add the marinated beef to the pot and stir-fry until the beef is firm. Pour water into the pot and bring to a boil. When the water boils, use a ladle to skim off any foam that rises to the surface, then reduce the heat.
• Simmer until the beef is almost tender, then add the white radish and carrot. Cook until the vegetables are tender, then add the onion, tomato, and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Season to taste, add the spring onion, turn off the heat, and ladle into a large bowl. Serve hot with rice.

2. Beef Rolls with Shiitake Mushroom Soup

Looking for a delicious winter soup? Look no further than Beef and Mushroom Roll Soup. With the sweet and chewy taste of beef, mushrooms, the crunchy texture of carrots, and tender tofu, this soup makes a perfect comforting meal for your family. It's a favorite among many homemakers during the cold season.

Ingredients:

• Shiitake mushrooms: 1 pack
• Carrot: 1
• Young tofu: 1 box
• Green onions
• Beef: 200g
• Seasonings: salt, sugar, seasoning powder, broth powder,...

Instructions:

• Clean and slice the beef thinly and wide. Peel and wash the carrot, cut into 1cm thick pieces, and you can trim them into flowers depending on personal preference. Peel off the nylon covering the shiitake mushrooms, remove the stems, wash them thoroughly, and drain. Remove the tofu from the box, place on a plate, and cut into bite-sized pieces. Wash and chop the green onions.
• Cooking: Spread the beef slices on a plate, place the shiitake mushrooms in the middle of each slice, and roll them up. You can secure them with green onion strands.
• Bring a pot of water to a boil, add the carrots and simmer until tender. Once the carrots are tender, add the tofu and season to taste.
• When the water boils again, quickly add the beef and mushroom rolls to the pot, increase the heat, once the water boils again, you can turn off the heat and serve in a large bowl.
• Take note not to cook the beef and mushroom rolls for too long as mushrooms cook quickly. Overcooking will result in mushy mushrooms, and the beef may become tough and lose its natural sweetness.

If your family loves the simple and popular duck stew with arrowroot, then duck soup with arrowroot is one of the delicious soups not to be missed in the cold winter. The nutritious duck meat, with its chewy texture, combined with the earthy sweetness of arrowroot, will make your family members unable to resist. Paired with crunchy and sweet carrots, it enhances the deliciousness of the family meal, making it more joyful and warm.

Ingredients:

• Duck meat: half a duck
• Arrowroot: 500g
• Carrot: 1
• Coconut water: 1 coconut
• Garlic, ginger, shallots, peppercorns, coriander
• Other seasonings
  

Instructions:

• Squeeze the duck meat with salt and wine to remove the odor, wash thoroughly, cut into small pieces suitable for consumption. Marinate the duck meat with garlic, pepper, seasoning powder, ginger, and other spices for about 30 minutes for better flavor.
• Peel and wash the carrot, cut into flower shapes according to your preference. Peel the arrowroot, cut into small pieces thicker than carrots to prevent them from breaking when cooked. If the arrowroot is not cooked immediately after cutting, it can be soaked in water to prevent browning. Peel and finely chop the garlic and ginger. Wash the shallots and coriander, chop finely and drain.
• Heat a pot on the stove, add about 1-2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Wait for the oil to heat up, then add the shallots, ginger, and garlic to stir-fry until fragrant.
• Next, add the duck meat, stir-fry briefly until the meat is firm, then add the arrowroot, season with a little seasoning, and stir well for a few minutes. Then pour the coconut water into the pot. When it boils, reduce the heat and simmer until the duck meat is tender, then add the carrots and cook with the meat.
• When the carrots are cooked, season again to taste, then add the chopped coriander, shallots into the soup pot, and turn off the heat. Serve hot and enjoy.

This dish is very good for people with weak kidneys, kidney deficiency, and weak bodies.

Ingredients:

• Goat meat: 150g
• 10 apples
• 20g fresh ginger
• Other spices
  

Instructions:

• Method: After washing the goat meat thoroughly, marinate it with spices for about 30 minutes to allow the flavors to penetrate the meat.
• Then peel, wash, and slice the apples and ginger. Boil them with water for about 30 minutes, then add the goat meat and simmer until tender. Season with some spices to enhance the flavor.

Once again, a dish with a fancy and enticing name, Red Bean and Carp Soup, is for those with weakened bodies, urinary retention, treatment of edema, chronic hepatitis... as well as playing a role in improving health. With this soup, patients should eat 2 to 3 times a week.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned fresh carp from 300 - 500 grams
• Small red beans 100 grams
• Other spices like tangerine peel and ginger
• Salt, sugar, ground pepper
  

How to make:

• Pour about 2 liters of water into a clay pot and cook until boiling, then add tangerine peel, ginger, and red beans to the pot and cook until the water remains about 1.5 liters.
• Continue to boil the water, then add the fish to the pot to stew, add a little salt, scallions, and cook until the fish is cooked, scoop the food into a bowl and sprinkle with a little pepper to add fragrance to the dish.

With this dish, just hearing the name makes many people want to enjoy it right away, this will be a nutritious dish that enhances immunity and helps the body stay healthy. The combination of many Chinese herbs will help prevent diseases in the cold winter.

Ingredients:

• Whole pigeon, cleaned of feathers and organs.
• Chinese herbs: Codonopsis pilosula, Chinese yam, and Poria cocos, each type from 15 to 20 grams.
• Clean water

How to make:

• Use the 3 herbs mentioned above, stuff them into the pigeon's body, then place the whole bird in a porcelain pot with enough water, then stew until the meat is tender, you can add a little salt to make the dish more flavorful.
• For this dish, you should eat 2 meals a week to ensure good health, pay attention to those with heat and kidney problems should not eat this pigeon stew soup.

This is a relatively easy-to-cook porridge that has the effect of nourishing qi, strengthening the spleen, enhancing health, and is very cooling for the body. Eating it hot helps warm the stomach and is good for digestion.

Ingredients:

• Fresh taro 150 gr
• White bean 15 gr
• Sticky rice 50 gr

Instructions:

• Peel and wash the taro, then cut it into slices or pieces of medium size. Clean the rice and cook it with white beans for about 30 minutes, then add taro, a pinch of salt, and cook until it becomes porridge. This dish is best served for breakfast.

This dish has the effect of enhancing immunity, keeping the body warm, nourishing vital energy, nourishing the lungs, strengthening the spleen, dispelling cold, and it's best to eat once a day while hot.

Ingredients:

• White radish 150 grams
• Tofu and shrimp each 100 grams
• Ginger, scallion, garlic, cooking oil, and other spices
  

Instructions:

• Wash the radish and tofu, cut them into square pieces, smash and chop the ginger, scallion, and garlic, wash the shrimp.
• After preparing, heat a pot, pour in oil, fry ginger and scallion until fragrant, then add water and bring to a boil. Add radish and cook over high heat, then add the remaining ingredients and simmer over low heat until cooked. Adjust the seasoning to taste. The shrimp and white radish soup is now ready.

What could be better than enjoying chicken and mugwort hotpot with friends and family around the kitchen table in this winter? In traditional medicine, mugwort has many benefits such as treating abdominal pain (especially menstrual cramps), aiding pregnancy, first aid for wounds, treating acne, improving blood circulation, and addressing various ailments in the elderly,... In addition, this dish includes many other medicinal herbs with various preventive and therapeutic effects against other diseases.

Ingredients:

• 1 free-range chicken
• Medicinal herbs: ginseng roots, hoai son, yi di, ki tu, longan, black dates, red dates, lotus seeds,...
• Shiitake mushrooms
• Seafood mushrooms
• Mugwort
• Tofu skin
• Quail eggs
• Tofu
• Dried rice noodles
  

Instructions:

• After cleaning, cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and marinate with spices for flavor. Prepare the mushrooms by blanching them in water with a little tapioca or cassava flour until they turn white, then rinse them thoroughly.
• Cut the tofu into pieces, wash the mugwort, soak the dried rice noodles until soft, and fry the tofu skin.
• Wrap the medicinal herbs in a cloth and boil them to make the broth for the hotpot. Now your hotpot is ready, just let everyone enjoy, it's very quick, isn't it?

This dish carries a Western style and is favored by many families for its suitability in cold winter weather as well as its versatility in complementing various Vietnamese dishes. Moreover, in terms of nutrition, it is no less than any other Vietnamese dish. Beef stewed in red wine nourishes vitality and warms the body.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of beef
• 1 carrot
• 2 potatoes
• Half an onion
• 1 garlic bulb
• 1/2 cup of red wine
• 3/4 cup of tomato sauce
  

Instructions:

• After washing, cut the beef into square pieces, peel and slice the potatoes and carrots, chop the onion into squares, and thinly slice the garlic.
• After prepping, heat a pan with oil and sauté the garlic until fragrant, then add the beef and stir-fry with a pinch of seasoning salt and salt until the beef is medium rare. Add the potatoes, carrots, and onions and mix well.
• Once the seasonings are evenly absorbed, add the red wine and tomato sauce with a little water, reduce the heat and simmer until the beef is tender and the broth thickens, and the beef stew in red wine is ready to serve for the whole family.

A familiar dish that's probably easy to cook, this porridge will help you treat colds as well as warm your body. It's easy to eat and digest, promotes a healthy stomach, and ensures that even children can enjoy it.

Ingredients:

• 60 grams of plain rice
• 20 grams of ginger
• 30 grams of onion bulbs
• 5 grams of table salt
  

Instructions:

• Rinse the rice and add enough water to cook porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add a little salt along with finely chopped ginger and onion. If you want to remove the strong smell of ginger and onion, you can add a little heat to cook them further.

Red beetroot herbal drink works wonders for the skin, preventing dryness in winter and serving as a comforting beverage during cold weather. The ingredients and preparation method are incredibly simple.

Ingredients:

• 15g each of red beetroot, herbal leaves, almonds, and sweet apples
• 1 piece of dried tangerine peel

Instructions:

• Peel the red beetroot, herbal leaves, almonds, and sweet apples, and cut them into evenly sized cubes.
• Place all the ingredients in a pot, cover with water, and simmer over low heat for about 3 hours.

Thus, the red beetroot and herbal drink is ready, allowing you to enjoy a nutritious, easy-to-make dish that keeps your family healthy during the winter days.