Sweet and sour tamarind stir-fry and sauce for the weekend

If your weekday meals are quick and easy because you are often busy, then on your free weekends, you can cook more elaborate dishes. Dishes like tamarind chicken feet, tamarind crab or tamarind quail eggs have easy-to-find ingredients, are delicious and unique, and are suitable for changing up your weekend meals.

1. Quail eggs stir-fried with tamarind

A popular snack is stir-fried quail eggs with tamarind. The fatty quail eggs are covered with a layer of sweet, sour, salty, spicy and extremely "addictive" tamarind sauce.

Prepare ingredients

• 20 quail eggs
• Dried tamarind: 1 spoon
• 2 chili peppers
• Garlic: ½ bulb
• Sugar, seasoning powder, chili powder, cornstarch, pepper
• Vietnamese coriander

How to do it

Step 1: Boil quail eggs for 15 - 20 minutes until cooked, then remove to a bowl of cold water and peel; sprinkle a little cornstarch around the eggs.

Step 2: Remove seeds from chili, cut into strips, mince garlic, fry until fragrant in hot oil

Step 3: Put tamarind in a bowl of hot water, remove seeds and filter the water, add sugar, seasoning powder, chili powder, pepper and tamarind juice and bring to a boil. Next, add quail eggs and stir gently, evenly and continuously so that the eggs absorb the sauce.

Heat the egg pan over medium heat until it thickens, then add chopped Vietnamese coriander and turn off the heat. Pour the egg onto a plate, pour the sauce over it and you can enjoy the delicious, hot tamarind stir-fried quail egg dish.

2. Tamarind fried chicken feet

Prepare ingredients:

• 8 pairs of fresh chicken feet
• Tapioca starch, cornstarch
• Garlic, chili, ginger, roasted peanuts
• Spices: fish sauce, sugar, chili sauce, tamarind juice

How to do it

Step 1: Cut the nails off the chicken feet, wash them with water, then boil them with a few slices of ginger and ½ teaspoon of salt. Next, take the chicken feet out to cool, coat them with tapioca starch and fry them over low heat until the skin is crispy.

Step 2: Make the sauce by sauteing garlic, adding 4 tablespoons of tamarind juice, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, chili sauce and then boiling the mixture.

Step 3: When the sauce thickens, turn off the stove and pour the sauce onto the fried chicken feet, use chopsticks to stir so that the sauce is absorbed into the chicken feet, sprinkle some roasted peanuts on top and you have completed the dish.

3. Crab with tamarind sauce

A great choice for the weekend is tamarind crab, which is nutritious, delicious and unique.

Prepare ingredients

• 1 fresh crab
• Tamarind, onion, Vietnamese coriander, fresh onion, dried onion and garlic
• Tapioca starch or cornstarch
• Spices: sugar, salt, pepper, chili, fish sauce...

How to do it

Step 1: Prepare the crab

Turn the crab belly up, then use scissors or a sharp knife to poke the center of the crab's belly to kill it completely, peel off the shell, remove the crab's lungs and wash, drain, and cut the crab into 4 bite-sized pieces.

Step 2: Make tamarind sauce

Put the tamarind in a bowl, pour boiling water to get the juice, filter out the seeds. Put the pan on the stove and saute the minced onion and garlic, then pour in the tamarind juice, season with fish sauce, sugar, chili, pepper to taste.

Step 3: Fry the crab

Place another pan on the stove, saute onion and garlic, then add crab and stir-fry until 70-80% cooked, add onion and stir-fry. Add a little tapioca starch to tamarind sauce, then pour this sauce mixture over the crab pan, simmer until the crab is cooked and absorbs the sauce. When the crab is cooked and absorbs the spices, sprinkle some chili and Vietnamese coriander, arrange on a plate and enjoy.