As a fruit only available in summer, mangosteen is grown in many places in the West, including Kien Giang. In this season, many people take advantage of making mangosteen salad to enjoy with their families.
Mangosteen selected for salad is raw mangosteen, the skin is still green, but the inner part is just ripe, so that when peeled, the intestines have a sweet taste, a slight sour taste and a strange acrid taste. still retains its crispiness.
To make mangosteen salad, housewives will choose the green skins.
Mangosteen chicken salad is prepared quite elaborately, especially the stage of separating the mangosteen skin to get the meat to make the salad. It takes about 5kg of mangosteen to get 1kg of meat. At the beginning of the season, the price of a kilogram of mangosteen meat is about VND 450.000 to VND 550.000.
Mangosteen chicken salad is not only a delicious dish but also favored by its nutritional value. Mangosteen contains many vitamins, especially fiber, which helps speed up the digestion of food…
Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Nguyet, living in Ho Chi Minh City. Rach Gia (Kien Giang) said that at the beginning of the season, her family could enjoy mangosteen salad. Her family also loves this dish because it is strange. “I like mangosteen chicken salad because the chicken is naturally sweet, crispy, sweet, slightly sour, combined with laksa leaves, carrots, peanuts, etc. to stimulate the taste buds. If you want to eat more delicious, dip it with sweet and sour fish sauce, "said Nguyet.
Ingredients ready for mangosteen chicken salad.
Mangosteen bought back is soaked in salt water and diluted lemon juice to reduce pus. Then use a paring knife directly under the faucet so that the pus does not stick to the blade, it is easy to wash the pus layer of the mangosteen fruit. After peeling, the meat is cut into slices and soaked in ice water for about 10 minutes to increase the crispness and reduce the acrid taste. According to many housewives, using raw mangosteen, when cut, it will keep the beautiful flower shape, while mixing the salad will not be crushed.
To make a delicious mangosteen salad, depending on each person's preferences, you can use chicken or pork belly, shrimp, squid... Soft makes the dish more flavorful.
For more flavor, while boiling the chicken, you can add a little seasoning to bring up the attractive aroma; In addition, chicken broth can also cook porridge, great with salad.
Mangosteen chicken salad is a delicious and exotic dish.
After the chicken is boiled, let it cool, then tear it into bite-sized pieces, mix it with a little sweet and sour fish sauce. Shredded carrots, thinly sliced onions, fried onions, roasted peanuts, laksa leaves and a few slices of chili, add a little sweet and sour fish sauce and mix well.
On a bamboo mat lined with banana leaves, mangosteen chicken salad is displayed. Picking up a piece of mangosteen, sweet and sour, sweet and crispy, sandwiched with chewy chicken, the flesh of peanuts and vegetables blends together, creating a cool taste, once eaten is remembered forever.
Articles and photos: THIEN TIEN
