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Fig Stir Fried With Shrimp and Pork

 Fig salad with shrimp and pork is one of the dishes which take a role in making Hue quintessential cuisine. Fig tree comes from the Moraceae family, it has the green colour outside and white inside.  Its taste is sweet and rather acrid. Fig trees are popular in Hue garden because it is easy to plant, grow fast and bear fruits all the year round. You don’t have to spend much time to take care about them. Its fruits are used for nutritious and delicious dishes.

 Fig leaf is green and large which is often used to wrap some food. Fig fresh fruit can be eaten directly or made many extraordinary dishes such as: sweet and sour fig or “figs stir fried with shrimp and pork”. Make figs stir fried with shrimp and pork is quite meticulous. Firstly for preparation you have to choose fleshy and fresh fruits. Boil fig then peel away its skin, cut in half, clean the inside and continue cooking until it’s soft. Fig stir fried includes fig, chopped pork, pigskin, shrimps, carrots, dried wood ear fungus, onion and pepper, chili, black sesame…When decorating dishes will be added with coriander, roasted peanut.
 
This dish has the greasy and buttery savor of fig, sweet and a bit tough taste of shrimp, a little bit sour and sweet flavor of dipping sauce mixed with the fragrant aroma of roasted black sesame. All of flavors create original specialty of Hue old capital.