This introductory list of Vietnamese recipes includes world-famous restaurant dishes and classic home-cooked dishes.
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Beginner's Guide to Vietnamese Cooking: 8 Delicious Recipes
“If I just eat a meal of canh kho and rau you know I’m just really happy” says Andrea Nguyen of the soups roasts and vegetable dishes that are respectively essential categories of Vietnamese cuisine. Nothing grounds Nguyen a Vietnamese food expert cookbook author and lecturer more than a home-cooked meal with food that “would be in line with what my mother would make for me” she says.
Each of these categories of Vietnamese cuisine is important to understand for anyone learning the basics but Nguyen often points to individual dishes like phở bánh mì and gỏi cuốn (summer rolls) as good introductions for those just finding their way. They all combine in a single dish starchy vegetables and herbs a protein and at least one spicy condiment—almost always nước mắm (fish sauce)—to tie it all together. These are all elements of many a Vietnamese meal whether they’re in a single bowl of phở or spread across the various dishes of a home-style meal.
Linh Trinh a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on culinary history tells me that Vietnam’s flavors and cooking techniques emerge from a multilayered accumulation of influences. These include Chinese occupation (257 BCE–938 CE) and French colonialism (1859–1954) as well as influences from Cambodia and India. On any given day in Vietnam I might eat phở for breakfast chicken curry with a toasted baguette for lunch and grilled rice paper spread with Laughing Cow cheese and mayonnaise for an afternoon snack.
