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The Songs of Sapa: Stories and Recipes from Vietnam
By Luke Nguyen
Murdoch Books - 2009
Wonderful and easy to make. The stock was made in the pressure cooker, and was just the Christmas turkey with a few other roast chicken bones from the freezer, and some carrots and onions. It was a double stock, as the first batch was a little weak, so I put it back into the pressure cooker with the last of the turkey and the extra bones.
I didn't have some of the ingredients, the pork meats, the bean sprouts and the Vietnamese mint, but included the remnants of turkey meat, and a teaspoon of block shrimp paste. What really made this dish was the fresh mint, which was what we needed, after the last few days. You need a strong stock for this dish as well.
The recipe says serves 4 to 6, but it only does 3, or possibly 2, for a 1 dish meal, no desserts.
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Lily Flower and Pork Soup : page 307
Good if you like lily flowers. I used chicken stock instead of water, as soups made with water can be a bit flavourless I find. Also didn't do the knot tying after the first 5 or 6. It does look better if the lily flowers are tied in knots, but I was running out of time.
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