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« Aromasia Cuisine»

 

Salt & Spices

 

More than three thousand eight hundred species of herbs and rare spices, trees, medicinal plants and flowers are used in Vietnam, some are endemic. 

Vietnam is the world's largest exporter of pepper and there are plenty cinnamon, coriander, basil, ginger, turmeric, star anise.

 

 

Nuoc Mam Salt
Boletus Nuoc Mam

Maceration of porcini mushrooms collected by my family in a first quality Nuoc Mam. You can cook it with sauces, sour cream with pasta, salad dressing. I use it almost every day: olive oil, Boletus Nuoc Mam, vinegar, thyme, garlic. In January, Boletus Nuoc Mam/ black truffles of the Drome.

Salt Nuoc Mam aged two years in clay pot, is for use with salad dressings, foie gras, grilled beef, meat fries, gravy with mushrooms, pasta with cream cheese and salad.

Vanilla Nuoc Mam Salt

Tahitensis vanilla grown in Vietnam with nuoc mam salt.

With tuna, shrimp soup, potato or pumpkin, caramel for dessert.

Boletus Nuoc Mam Salt

Porcini mushrooms with Nuoc Mam Salt.

With foie gras, tapas, steack...

 

Minorities Spice

Match with chocolate, beef carpaccio, foie gras or Moroccan tagines.

Talauma

Rare and intense. You can cook it in association with anise or cinnamon for seafood sauces.

Fresh Star Anise

The fresh anise in anise alcohol goes well with seafood and pork.

It also sublimes tomato sauces and desserts.

 

You can mix it with wild pepper, cinammon, turmeric, ginger, and oranges. 

 

Alcohol may be used for seafood buckling, for example.

Wild Pepper

Wild Pepper tastes a bit like lemon. 

 

It goes well with pork, fish, chocolate, ginger, star anise, lemongrass and lemon.

 

Add 2 minutes before serving the dish. 

Phu Quoc Pepper

Black pepper with cocoa and coffee notes.

White Musk Pepper

From Central Vietnam with wild taste.

Hanoi Old Quarter

The spices that we smell in the old streets of Hanoi: star anise, cinnamon bark, coriander, pepper, ginger, ...

 

For marinade, curry, steak or dessert sauce, mulled wine, sangria.

Honeys & Chocolate

 

 

Ginger & Citrus Honey
Two Ginger Honey

Mix of wild ginger from Ha Giang province and ginger essential oil from Lao Kai province (North Vietnam).

Honey mixed with essential oil of ginger, cinnamon bark, tangerine and lime.

 

For cooking with pork or duck or using in whipped cream, yogurt, fruit juice, or cheese.

Grapefruit Flower Honey

Essential oil of grapefruit flowers produced organically on our plantation, unique on the market for flavors reminiscent of Marcel Proust madeleine.

 

Superb whipped or sweet / salty sauce on a duck in orange.

Tonkin Five Spices Honey

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Aromatic & Medicinal Plants Honey
Forest Honey

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Longan Honey
Acacia Honey
Lytchee Honey
Indochina Chocolate
80%

Cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sugar only 20%, 80% extra dark.

Teas

 

Tea Flower

Harvested from old tea trees of 450 to 800 years, no pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals. 

 

Finesse and softness after a meal up a brandy to digest, only infuse (2mn) but choose excellent water.

Black Tea

Harvested from the same old trees.

Tea Flower Pollen

You can eat tea flower pollen pure for breakfast , mixed in fruit salad or for decorating a cake or chocolate mousse and blend with milk or fruit juice

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