Mangosteen-chicken salad - A delicacy of Binh Duong

Referring to the cuisine of Binh Duong land, indispensable chicken salad with mangosteen is famous far and wide neighborhoods.

Around the beginning of May is the time when fruits in Lai Thieu area in Thuan An City start to ripe. Among the delicious fruits of Lai Thieu, mangosteen is famous for its delicious taste and sweet aftertaste. In recent years, culinary experts have also turned this specialty fruit into a special delicacy, the mangosteen chicken salad. When mangosteen season begins to ripen, this dish is brought to indispensable specialties by many restaurants in Binh Duong when introduced to customers.

Mangosteen is chosen to make salad as freshly ripened shoots. People often choose green shoots but the inner has matured, so when the peel of bamboo shoots is both sweet and slightly sour but still crispy. The processing of mangosteen salad takes quite time, especially when peeling bamboo shoots to get the rice for salad and it takes 3-4 kg of bamboo shoots to get 1kg of fruit flesh. In order to save time, many people often choose mangosteen shoots to have ready rice and bring it for processing. At the beginning of the season, the price of one kilogram of broken shoot is about VND 500,000. Currently, mangosteen is in season so the price of ready-cut shoots has also decreased significantly, about VND 300,000 - 350,000 a kg.

To make the salad, the mangosteen shoots after being peeled are cut into a circle, looking like a blooming flower. Mangosteen can be mixed with shrimp, boiled bacon or boiled chicken, add thinly sliced ​​onions, non-aromatic shallots, laksa leaves, herbs, roasted peanuts. To make the dish more attractive, beautiful, people also add shredded carrots, sliced ​​chili to this dish. Mangosteen salad is often served with sweet and sour garlic sauce and fried shrimp chips.

This season, to restaurants in Binh Duong, especially the garden in Lai Thieu area, one of the top priority dishes that diners choose is mangosteen chicken salad. Sitting in the leaf huts in the cool space of the orchards, picking up a mangosteen chicken salad, adding a little garlic chili sauce and enjoying, you will find Binh Duong cuisine is still a lot of interesting things to explore breaking.

Reported by Cam Ly – Translated by Vi Bao