Hấp Dẫn Gỏi Gà

Chào các cô và các bạn,


Đây là Sue Ling, Wei Ling, Wei Chuen và Wai Chun……..(From left to right)!!!

We made Vietnamese Chicken salad (Gỏi Gà) for tiếng Việt cooking project. Vào thứ bảy, chúng em ₫i Thầy Minh nhà ở Bukit Panjang Mayspring. Đây là ingredients của chúng em:

Gỏi Gà – Chicken and Cabbage Salad Recipe

1/2 kg cooked shredded chicken (or uses the chicken meat from making the congee)

1/4 cabbage, finely sliced

1 carrot, peeled and thinly sliced matchsticks

1/2 onion (red or brown)

1 cup herbs (Vietnamese mint, mint and coriander)

3 tablespoons roasted peanuts, roughly chopped

3 tablespoons fried shallots

1/2 lemon juice

4 tablespoon of white vinegar

2 teaspoons salt

3 teaspoons sugar

1 cup fish sauce dipping sauce

Method

In a small bowl, there are combination of lemon juice, vinegar, salt and sugar. Stir until sugar and salt dissolves.

In a large bowl, add cabbage, carrot, onion, herbs, chicken and vinegar mixture. Gently toss to well combine.

Turn salad to a serving platter and sprinkle roasted peanuts, fried shallots and serve with fish sauce dipping sauce.

On Friday before the actual day, we headed to Sheng Shiong at West Coast to get our ingredients-chicken breast, vegetables, onions, garlic, prawns, roasted peanuts, chillies and herbs. We were told that certain seasonings such as sugar, salt, vinegar and fish sauce will be prepared by Cô Bích. On Friday night, we steamed the chicken and washed the vegetables. The prawns were washed and steamed on Saturday morning itself to maintain the sweetness and freshness.

We reached Thầy Minh’s house at 10am and we started preparing the salad by shredding the chicken cutting the vegetables and onions. Salad preparation is actually simple as its just simply mixing all the ingredients together. However we took quite some time to cut the ingredients (sliced thinly) and the most challenging part were the sauce preparation and the decorations!

Cô Bích has patiently taught all of us how to make simple decorations with food to make our dish more presentable  .The decorations were very pretty but the process of making them were not as simple as how it looked. Cô Bích taught us how to make boat, basket and fan with cucumbers and also rose with tomato skin. We learned that we really need to be patient and conscientious in order to make pretty decorations! And not forgetting the sauce preparation, in which we mixed fish sauce, sugar, lime and water (all prepared by our dear Cô Bích). This was not easy as we have to taste the sauce ourselves to decide whether it was good enough. Luckily we had some help and advice from Cô Bích which made the process much easier.

Finally after the sauce was ready, we started mixing the salad by adding the ingredients first and finally the sauce. We served the chicken salad on our presentation plate and decorated the plate with the decorations we prepared beforehand. Tadaa!! Our final result can be seen below  pretty right?? And also a group photo with các cô after the presentation! Look at their happy faces..hehe..

We were very proud and glad that we managed and successfully came up with our first and very own Vietnamese dish. Although Cô Bích commented that ours was a bit dry, we were happy that we got to learn and try different Vietnamese food! The spring rolls, pomelo salad and some other dishes prepared by sinh viên hai and ba were all simply AWESOME! And we all especially love the soup and dessert prepared by our dear các cô!

This cooking project was very enriching as we learned not only about Vietnamese food but it was a good avenue for us to learn more about Vietnamese culture. Apart from that, it was also a time whereby we all can bond with các bạn and các cô! And most of all, we all had FUN!! We would like to take this opportunity to say cảm ơn to các cô and Thầy Minh for organizing this activity. It’s definitely a memory and experience that is meaningful and something to take away from this module.