How to Eat Oysters? International and Vietnamese Oyster Recipes
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Vietnamese oyster recipes are top hunted because oysters are a nutritious food that is used to prepare many different delicious dishes. If you are still wondering what delicious oysters are, do not rush to skip this article.
Oysters are a nutritious food that is very good for human health. Therefore, oysters are used to process into many different delicious dishes. Delicious dishes from oysters that are loved by many people can be mentioned such as: baked cheese oysters, egg fried oysters, oyster soup, oyster noodles, ginger steamed oysters, tofu stuffed with oysters, sweet and sour fried oysters, oyster porridge. …
What nutritional value and uses do oysters have?
According to Oriental medicine, oyster meat is sweet, cool, non-toxic, has the effect of tonic, yang and yin nourishing blood. Using dishes made from oyster meat helps you to cure insomnia, dizziness, dizziness, heat in the body… Oysters also effectively treat anemia, lack of milk … in women after giving birth. In particular, oysters are considered to be a good “panacea” for sperm in men with dysmenorrhea, infertility, physiological weakness, impotence, etc.
How to cook oysters in international cuisine?
Vietnamese people love also international cuisine, so oyster dishes in French, Italian or Thai recipes are quite popular.
1. Oysters with Cheese (French cuisine)
If you wonder what delicious oysters make, you can learn and make baked cheese oysters. First, you turn on the oven at 200 degrees Celsius before 10 minutes. While waiting for the oven to heat up, wash the oysters, cut them in half and remove the top shell. Prepare onion, parsley, celery, and carrots clean and then cut into small pieces. Put fresh milk in a pot, bring to a boil, add onion, celery, carrot, dried clove leaves, season with salt and ground pepper. You put a little cornstarch in a cup of water, stir well and then pour it slowly into the pot of milk, stirring while pouring. Finally, you put the oysters on the baking tray, sprinkle the cheese sauce mixture on top, and put it in the oven.
2. Spagetti noodles with oyster sauce (Italian cuisine)
Oyster spagetti noodles are one of the delicious dishes from oysters with a delicious and attractive taste. To prepare this dish, you need to prepare 80g spaghetti, 100g oyster meat, 2 tomatoes, 1/2 onion, 20g straw mushrooms and familiar spices available in the kitchen. Wash oysters, put them on a basket to drain, then cut into bite-sized pieces. In turn, dice onions and mushrooms. Wash tomatoes, remove seeds and puree.
Put the pan on the stove, heat the cooking oil, then add the garlic and sauté until fragrant, then add the tomato puree and stir-fry to get the tomato sauce. Put another pan on the stove, wait for the oil to heat up for the oysters, mushrooms, and onions to cook, then add the tomato sauce and season to taste. Boil the noodles for a plate, then add ground pepper, drizzle a mixture of oysters and sauce on top, serve with chili sauce, ketchup.
3. Oyster soup (Thailand cuisine)
Oyster soup is a great choice for nourishing the body. Sweet oyster meat combined with thick soup and other ingredients will create a dish that is not only delicious, but also has high nutritional value.
The way to cook oyster soup is very simple. First, you will need to stew the bones for about 30 minutes, then add 100g of carrots, 100g of peas, 100g of American corn, and cook for 10 minutes. Next, continue to put in the pot 100g of chopped abalone mushrooms, 300g of pre-prepared oysters, 2 teaspoons of seasoning seeds, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 100g of diluted tapioca starch and continue to cook for 2 minutes.
To make the soup more delicious, you can add 1 beaten egg to the pot and gently stir to create an egg texture. Finally, scoop the oyster soup into a bowl, add boiled quail on top.
How to cook oysters in Vietnamese cuisine?
The oysters are listed in the daily menu in restaurants at beach cities from North to South: Halong Bay, Dong Hoi, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc… Hereunder 5 most frequent Vietnamese oyster recipes to cook at home for you.
4. Fried Oysters with Eggs
Preliminarily clean oysters, then wash the oyster meat, put it in a bowl and soak it with a little white wine to remove the fishy smell. Crack eggs into a bowl, add a little salt, fish sauce, ground pepper, finely chopped scallions, stir well. In a pan, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil on the stove to heat, add minced garlic and shallots and fry until fragrant, add oyster meat and stir-fry until just cooked. Finally, pour the eggs into the frying pan until golden brown on both sides.
5. Steamed oysters with ginger
Prepare ingredients for steamed oysters with ginger, including 5 large fresh oysters, 1 fresh ginger root, 1 teaspoon oyster sauce, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 carrot, green onion, horn chili, laksa leaves. You peel the ginger root, wash it, cut it into strands. Clean oysters and then remove the top shell. Then, you mix ginger, finely chopped scallions, thinly sliced horn peppers, seasoning seeds, skull pepper, oyster sauce and then put on the oyster meat, proceed to steam it.
6. Tofu stuffed with oysters
The list of delicacies from Vietnamese oyster recipes cannot be complete without tofu stuffed with oysters. This dish is relatively simple to make. You wash the tofu, drain the water and then make a hole in the top. Prepare clean oysters, wash with water, drain, cut into small dices. Mix minced meat, oysters, and spices together and place them in the hole in the top of the tofu. Heat a pan of cooking oil on the stove, then add tofu stuffed with oysters and fry until golden brown on all sides, take out and enjoy.
7. Oyster porridge
Oyster porridge is one of the delicious dishes from oysters for babies that are chosen by many mothers. First, you prepare clean oysters, rinse with diluted salt water, leave on the basket to drain. Next, you wash the rice clean and then put it in the pot and put it on the stove to cook until it’s cooked. When the rice grains bloom, add the oyster meat to the porridge pot, continue to cook for about 5 minutes. Finally, proceed to seasoning to taste, turn off the heat and add a few finely chopped onions to complete.
8. Sweet and sour fried oysters
Prepare clean oysters, put in a bowl with a little seasoning. Wash tomatoes, cut areca, cut pineapple, cucumber, green pepper into bite-sized pieces. Onions also cut areca, scallions, and celery cut into pieces. Put a little oil in a pan on the stove, then add minced garlic and sauté it until fragrant. Stir in the oysters and other vegetable ingredients one at a time. Season with seasonings, including seasoning seeds, lemon juice, chili sauce, oyster sauce, salt, and sugar to taste. Finally, add the celery to the pan, stir well, add some ground pepper and turn off the heat.
Hopefully, through the above suggestions, you have partly answered the question of how to eat oysters. Wish you choose one of International or Vietnamese oyster recipes and cook delicious dishes to enjoy and make your daily meals more nutritious.
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