During Tet, every family has a full tray of food, and it is understandable that there is an excess of food. Leftover food is wasted, but improperly stored will be harmful to health. So, store leftovers How to properly, hygienically, until reuse is still safe and delicious?
Today, introduce everyone to some essential food preservation methods, make use of leftovers avoid waste as much as possible.
Chung cake
Banh chung has a sticky texture that can be kept for a long time, unlike food. If you want the cake to be moldy and long-lasting, following it’s cooked, wash it thoroughly with cold water, let it dry, and then put it in the refrigerator.
For leftover banh chung, you can put it in a bag or box, then put it in the freezer until you eat it to defrost and then steam or fry it once more, so the cake can be kept for more than a month following Tet.
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Sticky rice
Sticky rice is an indispensable dish in the Tet tray from New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Eve. Almost every house excess sticky rice due to too much other food.
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Instead of wasting it, you can store sticky rice in the freezer similar to banh chung, then steam it once more to eat it gradually or make delicious fried sticky rice, making sure everyone likes it.
Chicken
Chicken is the second food in the list leftovers following Tet. After offering, boiled chicken to prevent ice will be friable, cool compartment will not last long, boiled once more will lose its taste, but eating right away will not be able to finish. There are many ways to use leftover chicken.
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Chicken can be cut into pieces to store ginger and lemongrass, stir-fried with lemon leaves. If you have time, sit down and shred the leftover chicken and cook up a pot of chicken corn soup for the family to eat for breakfast. Or you can also tear chicken and process it into salads, mannequins, cook noodles, vermicelli or make delicious fried rice served with sticky rice.
The chicken thighs are cut out to be frozen or fried with delicious fish sauce, and the neck of the backbone wings can be used as a porridge pot or boiled with water to cook with vermicelli.
NEM rolls
Spring rolls and spring rolls are also dishes that often have a lot of leftovers following Tet. These dishes can also be turned into breakfast for the whole family, served with rolls, bread. Besides, you can also re-store the ham with meat, quail eggs to eat gradually.
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For spring rolls, if they are fried, they are both dry and soaked in oil, right from the time of rolling, they should be rolled, just enough, stored in the refrigerator, when eating, put them in an oil-free fryer for 7 to 8 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. , can be eaten with vermicelli, into a dish of vermicelli.
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