Vietnamese
Muop Xao Toi (Luffa with Garlic)
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Muop Xao Toi (Luffa with Garlic) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. 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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Peel the luffa, cutting away the tough ridges, and slice into half-moons.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat and fry the garlic until fragrant and just golden, about 20 seconds.
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Add the luffa and toss over high heat 1 minute.
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Season with the fish sauce, cover, and cook until the luffa softens and releases its liquid into a light sauce, about 4 minutes.
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Uncover and toss a final minute so the sauce coats the luffa.
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Serve hot, with rice served alongside.
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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 Muop Xao Toi (Luffa with Garlic), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Muop Xao Toi (Luffa with Garlic) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens) |
| 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
- 130 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 430 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Muop Xao Toi (Luffa with Garlic) takes about 12 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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