Vietnamese
Lau (Vietnamese Family Hot Pot)
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Lau (Vietnamese Family Hot Pot) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the rice vermicelli in hot water until pliable, then drain and set aside on a platter.
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Wash and cut the water spinach and napa cabbage into manageable lengths, slice the mushrooms, and cube the tofu.
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Arrange the raw beef, vegetables, mushrooms, tofu, noodles, and herbs on platters around the table.
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Bring the broth to a simmer in a pot set over a portable burner in the middle of the table.
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Let each eater drop their own beef, vegetables, and tofu into the simmering broth to cook briefly, then lift out and eat with the noodles and herbs.
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Keep the broth topped up and simmering throughout the meal so there is always something cooking.
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Ladle the last of the flavorful broth into bowls with the remaining noodles to finish the meal.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lau (Vietnamese Family Hot Pot), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Lau (Vietnamese Family Hot Pot) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 660 kcal
- Protein
- 51 g
- Carbs
- 55 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 880 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lau (Vietnamese Family Hot Pot) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter and the fall, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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