Delicious, cheap, easy to make dishes for rainy days

(Baonghean.vn) - On rainy and stormy days, simple, warm, and flavorful dishes are easy to eat with rice. These simple dishes are easy to make and extremely cheap, and will bring delicious meals to families.

1. Salted roasted peanuts

Ingredient: 100g peanuts (choose the firm type); ¼ cup cooking oil (60ml oil); Enough seasoning powder

Making:

Wash and drain peanuts.

Add peanuts and cooking oil to the pan. Turn on the stove, keep the heat at medium low, use chopsticks to stir the peanuts.

After 4 - 5 minutes, the peanuts start to make popping sounds or until the peanuts are cooked, turn off the heat, shake the pan for a while, then pour the peanuts into a sieve to filter out the oil.

Put the peanuts in a bowl, add enough seasoning powder, stir well so that the seasoning powder covers the peanuts. Let the peanuts cool and enjoy with white rice. Salted roasted peanuts are especially delicious when eaten with pickled cabbage.

2. Stir-fried pickled cabbage with pork fat

Ingredient:Pickled cabbage: 3 bowls of rice; Fat: 0.5 kg; Tomato: 1 fruit; Spices, fish sauce, sugar; Cooking oil.

Making:

Wash the pickled cabbage bought at the market, squeeze with clean water to reduce the sourness (if the cabbage is just sour enough, just wash it, no need to squeeze).

Cut the lard into small pieces and fry in a pan until it becomes crispy, then scoop out the solid part. Let the liquid part cool and store in the refrigerator to eat gradually.

Wash tomatoes, remove seeds, chop.

Pour a little of the lard used to make crispy cracklings into the patty, add the melon to the pan and stir-fry with a little seasoning, fish sauce and sugar. Stir-fry for about 10 minutes, then add the crispy cracklings and tomatoes and stir-fry until the tomatoes are soft.

Note: The stir-fried pickled cabbage with pork fat must be just the right amount of sour and salty, otherwise it will be difficult to eat.

3. Dried fish with fish sauce

Ingredient: 350g fatty pork belly; 1 cup dried fish; 3 thinly sliced ​​shallots; 4 minced garlic cloves; 1 minced chili; 1 chopped green onion; 4-5 small sliced ​​chili peppers

– Mix 5.5 tablespoons fish sauce, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cold water, 1 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teaspoon dried chili, 1 tablespoon chili paste in a bowl.

Making:Wash and skin the pork belly. Cut the meat into small pieces.

Soak dried fish in water for 10 minutes, then pour into a basket.

Place the pan on the stove. Add a little oil, wait until the oil is hot, then add the meat and stir-fry over medium heat. Stir-fry for a while until the pork is golden brown, then add the shallots, chili peppers and garlic and stir-fry for 2 minutes.

Next add dried fish and stir-fry for 5-6 minutes.

Finally, add the fish sauce bowl with chili, reduce heat to low and simmer until the fish sauce thickens and the fish meat has a nice color. Then add the chopped green onions and chili, stir well and turn off the heat.

Put the dried fish in a small pot, sprinkle with chopped green onions and a few chili peppers. This dish is delicious served with rice, boiled vegetables, cucumbers, and salad.

4. Braised pork fat with fish sauce

Ingredient:1kg lard; 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon water, 1 teaspoon MSG, chili and chili powder.

Making:

Cut the fat into small pieces and put it in the pan to fry and stir until it becomes crispy, then remove.

Fish sauce, vinegar, sugar, chili powder, chili and MSG dissolved in a bowl.

Saute chopped onions until fragrant, then add fish sauce and cook until thick.

Add the pork cracklings and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.

Braised pork rinds are delicious with hot rice or hot sticky rice!

5. Dried shrimp fried with star fruit

Ingredient: 200g dried shrimp; 1 star fruit; Salt, seasoning powder, pepper and fish sauce;

- Dried onion and garlic; 1 green onion.

Making:

Soak the shrimp in a bowl of cold water, stir well with your hands to let the sand settle. Pour out the dirty water, repeat a second time to clean the shrimp. If using fresh shrimp, you just need to wash the shrimp with diluted salt water.

Pour the shrimp into a basket to drain, mix in half a teaspoon of salt.

Wash star fruit, remove edges, then cut into small slices. Wash green onions, chop finely. Peel and slice shallots and garlic.

Heat cooking oil, saute onion and garlic until fragrant, add star fruit and stir-fry for about 3 minutes.

Next, add the shrimp and stir well. Season with a small spoon of fish sauce, half a small spoon of seasoning powder, half a small spoon of salt, and stir well with chopsticks.

Taste to your taste, turn off the stove and sprinkle green onions and a little pepper on top of the shrimp. Scoop onto a plate and serve with rice.

This dish is suitable to eat with white rice.

6. Fish sauce with meat

Ingredient:350g pork belly; 150g linh fish sauce or snakehead fish sauce; 3 minced garlic cloves; 1 teaspoon pepper; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 eggs (take 1 yolk and put it in a bowl, beat it); 1 minced chili; 1 minced shallot

Making:

Boneless, minced snakehead fish sauce. Wash and dry pork belly, mince.

Put meat, fish sauce, spices and above ingredients in a bowl.

Mix well to let the meat absorb the spices.

Boil a pot of water. Put the bowl of fish sauce in a steamer and steam for 25 minutes.

After 25 minutes, open the pot lid, pour the egg yolk on top of the fish sauce bowl, and garnish with chili and dried onions.

Cover and steam for another 5-7 minutes until the fish sauce is cooked.

Steamed fish sauce is very simple and quick to make, but goes great with rice.

7. Fresh bamboo shoots stir-fried with onions

Ingredient: 500g fresh bamboo shoots; Green onions; Minced shallots; Spices, seasoning powder, pepper; Cooking oil

Making:

Buy fresh bamboo shoots, peel off the outer layer, wash with water, cut into bite-sized pieces, be careful not to cut too thick, soak in water for 30 minutes, squeeze clean with salt to reduce the pungent taste of the bamboo shoots, wash with water again.

Boil bamboo shoots until soft, remove, drain, boil again to reduce bitterness, remove and drain.

Place the pan on the stove, wait for the pan to heat up, add two tablespoons of oil, add onions and saute until fragrant, add bamboo shoots and stir-fry for 15 minutes.

Note: if the stir-fried bamboo shoots are dry, add a little broth. This will make the bamboo shoots sweeter and when eaten, they will be soft and not dry.

Add spices, fish sauce, chopped green onions to taste, stir well.

Put stir-fried bamboo shoots and onions on a plate, sprinkle with pepper for aroma and enjoy.

8. Sweet and sour fried dried anchovies

Ingredient:200g dried anchovies; lemon, 2 chili peppers, 1 garlic bulb; 2 tablespoons fish sauce,

- 2 teaspoons sugar, MSG.

Making:

Wash the dried fish with hot water twice to remove all dirt, then remove the fish to a basket to drain.

Peel and mince garlic, remove seeds from chili and mince with garlic, squeeze lemon to get juice and remove seeds.

Mix fish sauce, lemon, garlic, sugar, MSG together.

Place pan on stove, add a lot of cooking oil, wait until oil is hot then add fish, simmer until fish is golden and crispy.

After the fish is golden brown, scoop out all the cooking oil and put the pan back on the stove to dry the fish a little more.

Pour the fish sauce mixture above into the pan, stir well for another 3-5 minutes to let the garlic become fragrant and the spices soak into the fish.

Serve and enjoy. This dish is best served with white rice.

Enjoy these rustic dishes.

Thu Tra (synthesis)