Hmong food
Welcome to Hmong Food home cooking website where you will learn the basics of Hmong cooking as well as other Asian recipes, with a few of them being my own creations. We all know asian food when we see it, but what's Hmong food? Some of what we know as Hmong Food in America today are recreations of popular asian dishes that the Hmong people have learned to cook by living amongst the Lao and Thai people. They are rich in flavors and pleasing to our taste buds such as curry, Pho beef noodle soup, papaya salad and three color drink (aka Nab Vam). You will also be guided into learning actual traditional Hmong food that is made with simple flavors which reflects Hmong people lifestyle as agriculturalists. This is the first cooking website that will share many of these traditional and modern Hmong and Asian recipes that you would particularly find on a Hmong American family dinner table.
Steamed Rice Rolls – Fawm Kauv
Fawm Kauv (Steamed Rice Rolls)
Steamed Rice Rolls is an addicting Vietnamese dish that the Hmong people often enjoy cooking and eating with their own dipping sauce. Though it does take practice to cook this dish to its perfection, it’s too delicious to not make time to try this recipe every once in awhile!
Chicken Larb Salad – Lav Nqaij Qaib
Often when my mother boils a whole chicken to make Hmong pho, she would tear off the chicken breasts and chop it up to make chicken laab on the side. Chicken lab salad is simple, quick and healthiest of the lab salads.
Read the full recipeLumpia Eggrolls
Lumpia eggrolls
It was probably way back in high school when a filipino classmate brought some lumpia eggrolls to a potluck. It was the first time I ever had them and I was really amazed how less ingredients in an eggroll can taste just as good as a Hmong eggroll which contains more ingredients. But you also can’t compare the two because both have a completely different taste from one another. Lumpia eggrolls are wrapped thinner and tighter, and are made with ground beef. They can be very addicting as appetizers!
Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage – Mov Kib
Mov Kib (Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage)
Fried Rice with Chinese sausage is a classic dish. Many Hmong people including myself love to add chili garlic sauce to the recipe for a more spicy garlic flavor. I preferably use sriracha hot sauce. adding this certain hot sauce takes fried rice to another whole level trust me on this!
Pad Thai
Pad Thai
Preparation: 40 min to soak noodles. Cooking: 10 minutes
Pad Thai is a wonderful explosion of surprising flavors of shallots, peanuts and tamarind. The key to making pad thai is knowing how long to soak your noodles as it varies from different brands to different sized noodles. This recipe is based on cooking pad thai with thin noodles. Make sure to cook it on high heat and mix thoroughly continuously to prevent noodles from sticking to one another.
Read the full recipeTapioca Fruits Dessert – Txiv Ntoo Xyaw Dej Qab Zib
Txiv Ntoo Saw Dej Qab Zib
This sweet dessert is served with ice cubes. Jackfruit and lychee together is the best combination for this mouth watering dessert that will make you keep coming back for more! As much as I enjoy ice cream, I’d prefer having this dessert over ice cream on a hot day any day.
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