(VNF) - It is the Year of the Rooster, so expect restaurants and bakeries to pull out all the stops with innovative Lunar New Year goodies - chicken-themed, of course. Here are the simple yet delicious chicken-themed snacks and dishes for your family.

Stewed Spicy Chicken with Vegetable (Ga nau rau cu cay)

The natural sweetness from vegetables is combined in chicken with a little spicy flavor will create a fantastic dish for your family meal. When the weather changes colder, this dish is the best choice. Eating with steamed rice never let you down.

Ingredients: 1,5kg chicken meat; 2 carrots, 1 onion, 500g potatoes; 3 tablespoons Korean chili paste; 4 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 teaspoons sesame oil; 1 tablespoon chili powder; spring onion and garlic.

Process:

-Clean well chicken, chop into medium slices.

-Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, Korean chili paste, chili powder, miced garlic into bowl and stir well.

-Pour sliced chicken into bow and use hands to mix with spices you made earlier. Wait in 1 – 2 hours.

-Pour chicken into pot, pour more hot water until it reaches the top of chicken meat, cook with medium heat.

-Cook until it boils again and reduce the heat to small, continue cooking until the chicken is cooked.

-Then, add sliced carrot and onion into pot

-Cover the pot and cook until carrot is soft.

-Continue adding more sliced spring onion on top.

Finally, you can turn off the heat and serve when it is hot.

Grilled Chicken Gizzard with Saffron Recipe (Me Ga Nuong Nghe)

Grilled Chicken Gizzard with Saffron is the great combination between crispy from chicken gizzard, specific flavor from saffron and spicy from satay (chili paste). You can use this dish on the Last Year Party. It is really a great choice when you and your friends has a BBQ party outside. Moreover, if you get sick, saffron can reduce the cough well.

Ingredients: 5 – 6 sets of chicken gizzard; 3 – 4 fresh small saffron; 1 tablespoon satay (chili paste); salt, spring onion, sugar, pepper, and Maggi’s stuff.

Process:

-Clean carefully chicken gizzard in water added a little salt. Then, cut in half and wait to dry. Next, marinate gizzard with 1 teaspoon salt + ½ teaspoon Maggi’s stuff. Mix well and wait in 15 minutes.

-Peel off the cover of saffron. Clean and smash them well. Clean spring onion and slice small. Mix sliced spring onion with 1 teaspoon vegetable oil.

-Scoop 1 tablespoon Satay (chili paste) into bowl. If you cannot find this spice, you can make it at home by this recipe: fry oil + minced garlic + minced lemongrass until they are fragrant. Next, add more chili powder + 1 little fish sauce + sugar and stir well until it dries.

-With one of stunning Vietnamese Chicken Recipes like this one, I suggest you should use your hand to mix saffron + satay with chicken gizzard and wait in 10 minutes.

-Stick chicken gizzard on wood sticks for grilling.

-Put all wood sticks on tray and bring to grill at 180 degree in 20 – 25 minutes. Sometime, spread mixture of oil + sliced spring onion on face to make sure this dish will not be dried.

Finally, your dish is already to serve for Tet Party. We suggest you should use when it is hot to maintain its true flavor.

Rolled Chicken with Broccoli Recipe (Ga cuon bong cai)

If you love chicken meat and vegetables, one of amazing Vietnamese Chicken Recipes below will make you happy. It is called Rolled Chicken with Broccoli (Ga cuon bong cai).

Ingredients: 300g chicken breast; 250g green broccoli; 250g spinach; 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic; cheese sauce: 11g cream cheese, 125g Mozzarella, minced chili; cover: 60g wheat flour (all purposed flour), 2 chicken eggs, 30ml water, 150g bread crumbs.

Process:

-Use mini cooking axe to smash gently chicken meat. Marinate with pepper and wait for 20 minutes.

-Fry sliced onion with butter in 5 minutes and add more minced chili, fry more 30 seconds.

-Clean and sliced small spinach, add into pan with onion and fry in 1 minute. (You should wait until spinach cleans out of water).

-Use another pan, you can fry broccoli with a little spices: sugar, salt, pepper in 2 minutes and pour on plate. Then, mix quickly and gently with spinach in step 3.

-Mix all ingredients of cheese sauce together.

-Scoop ¼ cheese sauces in step 5 and spread on top of chicken meat, next will be mixture vegetable, roll it carefully.

-Wrap outside with silver paper and put in fridge for 1 hour.

-Stir well egg. Roll one by one chicken roll from wheat four to stirred egg and then bread crumbs.

-Heat the oil with medium heat (make sure oil will cover all chicken rolls). Bring them to fry in 1 – 2 minutes until they turn brown yellow.

-After fried, put on grilled tray to reduce wasted oil.

Finally, you just finished another amazing Vietnamese Chicken Recipes.

Chicken Soup with Pineapple and Bitter Melon (Sup ga voi dua va muop dang)

Chicken Soup with Pineapple and Bitter Melon comes from many amazing Vietnamese Chicken Recipes. If you love chicken, but get boring with old ways for cooking. This is a good choice, especially in hot days. Moreover, if you want to get perfect body, especially men, eating chicken is always a good choice. Bitter melon is really fresh. It can help reduce heat inside body and make your skin more beautiful.

Ingredients: 300gr Chicken meat; 1 Bitter melon (medium size); ¼ Pineapple fruit; 700ml Chicken/Pork Broth; Maggi’s stuff, salt, coriander.

Process:

-Clean Chicken Meat in water added a little salt. Wait to dry and chop into medium pieces.

-Clean bitter melon, throw away seeds. Then, slice thick (2cm).

-Peel off the cover of pineapple, cut off eyes. Clean and slice into medium pieces.

-Boil broth with medium heat, then add chopped chicken meat + ½ teaspoon salt into pot, cook about 15 – 20 minutes. Sometime, you should spoon away dirty bubble on face of broth.

-Add sliced pineapple into pot and cook more 5 – 7 minutes. Then add more sliced bitter melon, cook more 1 -2 minutes. Next, season to suit your flavor. Turn off the heat.

Finally, your dish is ready to serve. Using with boiled rice is absolutely delicious. You can use when it is hot or cold. Before using, remember add more sliced coriander on soup.

( Compiled by VNF )