The balance established in Vietnamese cuisine between herbs, vegetables, and meats is perhaps its most unique characteristic. For these reasons, Vietnamese cuisine is routinely considered one of the healthiest ethnic cuisines in the world.
Brothers Green Eats
Brothers Green Eats put out a massive thirty-minute video in 2016 highlighting eight easy Vietnamese recipes that is a great starting point for anyone looking to indulge in these sort of recipes. Contained in the video are recipes for a tasty sweet chili dipping sauce known as ‘nuoc cham’, a pickled carrots and daikon dish known as ‘do chua’, grilled pork and noodles in ‘bun thit nuong’, beef pho, banh xeo, banh knot, shrimp summer rolls, and fried summer rolls. All heavenly, juicy recipes, these are the perfect starting point as an introduction to Vietnam.
Helen’s Recipes
Helen’s Recipes is the most popular Vietnamese cooking channel on YouTube. With more than 300,000 subscribers, this is all Vietnamese food prepared easy, fast, and delicious. She’s got some absolutely wonderful pho recipes on her YouTube channel including beef pho and seafood pho as well as special ways to prepare fried chicken, chicken lettuce wraps, Vietnamese rice cake recipes, beef shank salad, and so much more. Helen’s Recipes also delves a little bit into vegan meals as well as non-Vietnamese Asian foods which are sure to please anyone with an interest in exploring other ethnic cuisines.
My Basil Leaf
My Basil Leaf is a YouTube channel with more than 78,000 subscribers, and specializes in short videos of Vietnamese-Asian and American comfort food recipes. You will find a mix of recipes here, some better than others and some more Vietnamese than others. Some of the customizations made in recipes hosted on this channel are rather interesting. Although you will find some Americanized Vietnamese recipes, you will also see some great authentic Vietnamese dishes including some pho and pho-esque recipes to sort through. New videos are scheduled for release on a bi-weekly schedule.
Although there are other channels out there, these are the top YouTubers you can count on for Vietnamese cuisine recipes. If you don’t want to do the whole cook-your-own thing in Toronto though, you can also find authentically prepared pho and other Vietnamese cuisine at Toronto Pho. Browse dozens of menu items and select your favourites! You’d be surprised by how absolutely tasty Vietnamese cuisine could be. Visit Toronto Pho today.
