Enjoy delicious dishes from 3 regions made from blood worms

(Baonghean.vn) - The ancients concluded that around "September 20th and October 5th" is the time when the most worms come out of the ground. At that time, people living along the river prepare all the tools to catch worms to eat.

Crab has a lot of nutrients that can be used to make many delicious and nutritious dishes such as crab paste, crab patties, crab spring rolls, stir-fried crab, crab soup... Each dish brings a different flavor but still does not reduce the characteristic fatty taste of crab.

1. Grilled sandworms wrapped in betel leaves (or fried)

Grilled sandworms in betel leaves is another attractive way to prepare this dish. The steps are also quite simple, in which the cook often mixes sandworms with minced pork, minced shoulder meat, chopped chili, shredded betel leaves, tangerine peel, and spices. Then, these ingredients are mixed together and rolled tightly in betel leaves, and can be secured with toothpicks or with scallion leaves blanched in hot water. The final step is to grill these meatballs on a hot charcoal stove.

Grilled earthworms with betel leaves.

2. Braised crab in clay pot

The dish of braised earthworms in a clay pot, also known as braised earthworms in a clay pot, is a dish that retains the characteristic flavor of earthworms. When making braised earthworms, people often line the bottom of the pot with a layer of ginger, star fruit, radish, tangerine peel, dill, and julienned gac leaves, then arrange the earthworms on top, season with spices and MSG so that the earthworms can absorb those spices harmoniously, pour in water to cover the earthworms, cover tightly and cook over low heat until the water in the pot dries, which is also when the earthworms are soft and fragrant.

Braised earthworms in clay pot.

This dish is very popular during Tet, the number of customers ordering delicious dishes made from blood worms increases, especially the dish of blood worms stewed in a clay pot attracts a lot of attention and greatly increases the consumption of this dish. Although it costs more than 1 million VND/pot,dishes made from earthwormsThis fairly new attraction has always attracted a large number of domestic visitors.

3. Stir-fried earthworms with lotus root

Stir-fried earthworms with lotus root.

Nieng is a type of wild rice that has been swollen into a tubers shape by a fungus and lost the ability to flower like seasonal rice. Stir-fried rươi with rươi is a dish that fully utilizes the flavors of rươi. In this dish, you only need enough ingredients such as rươi, scallions, gac leaves, pork belly, rươi, chicken eggs and some spices, you will have a new rươi dish.

4. Fried shrimp rolls

Shrimp patties.

Cha ruoi also has another name, roi dua cuc, is considered a popular dish in Hanoi cuisine. The ingredients chosen to prepare must be ginseng rươi, red, big, milky from the brackish water region of Thai Binh, Hai Phong. The way to make this dish is also very simple, only including eggs, beaten rươi, minced meat and indispensable tangerine peel, dill leaves and a little fresh chili, then fried.

5. Nem ruoi

Nem ruoi

In addition to the same ingredients and mixing method as the crab cake, the difference in the crab spring rolls is the addition of bean sprouts, wood ear mushrooms, and cellophane noodles. These ingredients are wrapped in spring rolls and fried in a pan with cooking oil.

6. Fried shrimp with salt

Fried shrimp with salt.

The worms are cleaned of hair, dipped in a mixture of flour and cornstarch until evenly coated, then fried until golden brown. The lolot leaves are sliced ​​into strips and fried in hot oil for decoration. The salt is also roasted hot and dry and mixed with the fried worms until golden brown and absorbed.

The thing to note is not to add too much salt, otherwise the dish will be very salty. Usually, just a small teaspoon is enough. The delicious, crunchy, attractive flavor of salt-fried roe makes anyone who has eaten it once will remember it forever.

7. Shrimp paste

Shrimp paste.

Because the season of the worm is short, Hanoians think of a way to preserve that flavor by making worm paste. When the season comes, Hanoi housewives buy more worm to make fish sauce. The way to make fish sauce and shrimp paste is similar to making worm paste.

After scooping up the shrimp, wash it clean and marinate it with water and coarse salt, then dry it in the sun for about 10-15 days. A good fish sauce should have a golden honey color. When eating, just squeeze in some lemon juice and a few slices of chili.

8. How to cook crab soup/Crab soup/Crab hotpot:

Simple preparation but great benefits: detoxifying, nourishing and fatigue-reducing.

Hotpot with earthworms.

Beat the roe with a small spoon of salt, put it in a pot with water, then put it on the stove, turn on high heat and bring to a boil. Then put it on the stove to boil, the roe will form a lump and float like crab fat, you continue to filter the sourdough and add it. Fry the onion and fat, add the tomatoes and stir-fry, then pour it on top of the roe cake, add a few sliced ​​sour star fruit or pickled bamboo shoots.

Don't forget to add a little chili to reduce the fishy smell of fresh shrimp. Then season with fish sauce, soup powder, MSG and bring to a boil. Simmer until boiling again, add chopped green onions, dill and chopped tangerine peel, stir gently then turn off the heat, serve hot.

With this recipe, you can cook with a young bamboo shoot cut into thin strips and the whole earthworm without mashing it. The earthworm soup cooked with bamboo shoots is less sour and you can add thinly sliced ​​coriander leaves.

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