What is beef jerky? Specialty beef sauce and delicious dishes with beef sauce

Bo hoc sauce is a quite famous fish sauce in the Southwest region, so it is loved by many people. The following article will help you better understand beef sauce along with the specialties and dishes that come with this sauce.

What is beef jerky?

Beef sauce

Beef sauce , also known as prahok, pro hoc is a dish of the Khmer people in Cambodia as well as the Khmer people in the South of Vietnam.

There are two basic types of fish sauce: Prohok ch’oeung and Prohok sach.

Bo hoc fish sauce is made from fishes in the floating season such as reed fish, perch, gourami, snakehead fish, … remove the intestines, beat the scales, then fake it and season it with spices such as salt, sugar, pepper, and garlic. , chili,… Then, the fish will be dried, marinated again with hearing and then put the fish in a jar to incubate for a period of 4-6 months until the fermented fish sauce is edible. .

Bo hoc fish sauce is often used to eat with rice and is a protein supplement for the body or use beef sauce as an additional ingredient to enhance the flavor of dishes such as vermicelli, vermicelli, vermicelli. bull.

Specialty beef sauce

Tra Vinh beef sauce

Tra Vinh beef sauce

Tra Vinh is one of the places to make very delicious beef jerky and is also the specialty of this place. Probably because Tra Vinh belongs to the Mekong Delta, surrounded by two branches of water, convenient for fishing.

People here usually after catching fish, they will clean the fish intestines and then soak them with salt for a few hours to swell the fish. Next, they bring the fish out to dry and marinate it with spices.

To make fish sauce properly and deliciously , they will use a heavy object to squeeze out all the water in the fish, then arrange the fish in the ratio of one fish: half cold rice: one salt into the compost.

Finally, they will use bamboo sticks to fasten and incubate the fish for a period of 4 to 6 months until the fish becomes fish sauce. During the incubation process, the fish sauce will often foam on top, so people often use this amount of foam to give the fish the most characteristic flavor.

Cambodian beef sauce

Cambodian beef sauce

Beef sauce is very famous in Cambodia . This fish sauce is used freshwater fish along with some spices such as pepper, sugar, salt, garlic, chili and cold rice.

The beef sauce here is usually not as beautiful as the shrimp paste, but the scent will be lighter.

Soc Trang beef sauce

Soc Trang beef sauce

Soc Trang is famous for Vung Thom beef sauce . Most of this fish sauce here is made from yellow catfish, also known as big fish sauce (pro hoc trey).

People usually clean and salt the yellow catfish, then bring the fish to the stone mortar, pound the fish with a pestle and then mix it with cold rice and then grind it. Finally, use banana leaves to line the fish and put a heavy weight on top to let the fish out of the water, then put the fish in a jar to incubate until the fish sauce.

Delicious dishes with beef sauce

Beef noodle soup

Beef noodle soup

This is a specialty dish of the Cambodian people, they often use fish sauce to make beef noodle soup and to make the vermicelli more delicious, people often add wild lemon or fruit to soften the smell of fish sauce and make it easier to eat.

Roll rice paper with beef sauce

Roll rice paper with beef sauce

In Soc Trang, they often use beef sauce to dip when rolling rice paper with vermicelli, vegetables, and meat to enhance the flavor of the dish.

Hotpot with beef sauce

Hotpot with beef sauce

Mam hot pot is a dish quite familiar to people in the West, but beef sauce is even more special and delicious with its distinctive aroma and rich fish sauce taste. This hot pot sauce is usually served with shrimp, meat, ..and some raw vegetables, vermicelli.

Vegetables dipped in beef sauce

Vegetables dipped in beef sauce

Vegetables dipped with beef sauce is great and will probably eat all the rice because of the rich taste of the fish sauce and the faint aroma. This dish will be very suitable to eat on chilly days!

Where to buy beef jerky? How much?

Where to buy beef sauce?

You can buy beef sauce at shops, establishments, large markets specializing in selling specialties of fish sauce, or stalls in tourist areas in the West. In addition, you can also buy it on e-commerce sites.

Reference price : 80,000 VND/500gr

Hopefully, through the above article, it will help you better understand about beef sauce as well as specialties and delicious dishes about this type of fish sauce.

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