Delicious dishes of the Van Kieu Quang Tri: Grilled frills

Grilled frills often appear at a wine party or a Van Kieu's feasting table

Anyone who has the opportunity to go to Truong Son and enjoy the grilled scallions of the Van Kieu people must never forget the strange, fragrant, and aromatic dishes of the mountains and forests.

After slaughtering the pig, people take the sickle, which is the firm flesh coming out of the neck of the pig (called the gong in local language). The ham of a fat pig does not exceed 5 pounds, making it rare. Half-lean, half-fat, so when baked it will be crispy and greasy. Diem only needs to be lightly washed with water and rubbed with raw salt before processing. Opaque white meat, grilled up to red brick.

In the restaurants "grilled village", the grilled scent of the mountains is popular with many people because of the aroma of meat while being cooked on the charcoal stove, with the pleasurable sizzle of the juice dripping into the coal and the feeling of excitement. waiting for each delicious piece of meat to just ripen. Grilling must also be experienced, the meat is not overcooked but also raw.

Referring to grilled rice is to immediately remember raw salt. Preliminary pounded raw salt with ripe chili is a special indispensable spice in this folk dish. Whole grain salt, stabbed with red pepper but not crushed, white salt mixed with red chili looks both beautiful and salty. This salt and chilli dish can be eaten with sour-flavored fruits such as: mango, curry, pineapple, sour grapefruit, plum ...

When the customers sit still, the owner brings out the grilled fringe plate, the ripe red ones like brick have just baked, and chopped into pieces. The plates containing washed vegetables such as hairy apricot leaves, fish lettuce, and young cabbage are used to wrap the ruffle. Papaya, shredded cucumbers, and peeled galangal roots set aside. Green garlic, chili and pepper. After that, guests leisurely use young cabbage wrapped in a mixture of grilled sickle meat, fish lettuce leaves, hairy apricots, papaya, cucumber and herbs, chopped chili. Baked fruit is better if there is a spring roll.

Not only eye-catching colors, grilled frills also have a synthetic flavor of vegetables, galangal roots, green pepper and crispy, sweet grilled meat that is interesting. Guests wrap their own squares like spring rolls, then to feel the taste of meat and vegetables, eaters must chew slowly, sipping little by little.

So warmly after a day of work, everyone gathered together on a frilly grilled plate that was served, picked up a piece of meat and chewed slowly into their mouth, chewed a slice of galangal and dipped in salt and chilli, together with a couple Young green pepper. The sweetness of the grilled meat, mingled with the sweetness and the characteristic aroma of the vegetables, awakened all the senses, dispelled the pain.

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