Durian cooked with young rib soup and fried with flour

Not only eating ripe fruit, but Gia Lai people also prepare many other delicious dishes from durian such as baby rib soup, fried flour to eat with rice.

Durian is the “king” of crops in the Central Highlands because the soil and climate are suitable for plants to grow, develop and give high yields. September-October is the time to harvest durian in Gia Lai, mainly growing varieties such as Dona, Ri6, and foreign varieties Musang King from Malaysia.

Many gardeners also combine the farming tourism models. Visitors to the garden can pick the fruit and enjoy it right away. With a greasy taste, strong aroma, eating one pack is addicted and wants to eat the second. In addition to enjoying the soft ripe fruit, many people are also surprised to be able to process many dishes such as cooking pork rib soup and fried dough.

Pick durian at the garden, choose old fruit, turn yellow about to ripen to cook soup. — Pick durian in the garden, choose old fruit, turn yellow about to ripen to cook soup.

Mr. Phan Nguyen (1985), from Gia Lai, is the owner of the YouTube channel Huong from the countryside has just made a culinary video about dishes cooked from this thorny fruit. The video records the process of Vuong Ngoc and Nhan Nguyen picking durians in Dang Nhan Dong’s garden in Thang Trach 2 village, Ia Kha town, Ia Grai district. To make the soup, it is necessary to choose an old fruit, turning yellow but not yet soft. The way to recognize old durian is that it has big, hard thorns but the thorns are slightly rounded, not sharp and tiny.

The fruit is picked, peeled off all the sharp thorns, separated the segments, removed the skin and seeds to get the rice and cut it into pieces. Buy ribs, cut into small pieces, wash and boil water to prepare for impurities, then wash ribs and add water to stew. After 30 minutes of stewing young ribs, add durian and season with salt and fish sauce to make the ribs soft, durian bloom, sprinkle with scallions and coriander to complete. In addition to cooking soup, durian can also be fried with flour until golden brown on both sides, then take it out and enjoy.

The same raw material of young ribs, but when cooked with different vegetables, the flavor is different. Durian cooking soup will have a rich, aromatic flavor mixed with rich rib broth. As for the fried bread, durian is soft and strangely sweet.

Many people also make use of the shell. The same way is to remove the sharp spines, leave the white pulp, cut it into pieces for cooking. But this white pulp is fibrous and not as fleshy as durian rice.

In the kitchen, tables and chairs, cabinets are made entirely from bamboo. Mr. Phan Nguyen said that he wanted to build a kitchen with the characteristics of an old Vietnamese house, a bit out of the way but still with a country style. In addition to the kitchen, Mr. Nguyen also invests in equipment, chooses the context and researches food processing to make the video introducing Gia Lai cuisine more