3 recipes using potatoes — Pho, bánh mì, fresh spring rolls — light, fresh and fragrant.
These 3 vietnamese potatoes recipes are ready in about 57 minutes on average, with 480–511 kcal per serving, and 0% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Vietnamese food is fresh and delicate — fragrant broths and herb-laden plates that feel light yet deeply flavoured. When Vietnamese cooks work with potatoes, they reach for fish sauce, lime, fresh herbs, lemongrass, chilli and rice, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering.
The comforting carbohydrate that roasts, mashes, fries and bakes its way into cuisines worldwide. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, garlic, fish sauce, fine sea salt, rice noodles and mint. The dishes here span vietnamese classics ready in as little as 51 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Vietnamese Yellow Chicken Curry (Ca Ri Ga) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.6★ from 52 ratings.
Dalat Smoky Tomato Traybake turns vietnamese pantry flavors into a complete traybake with sweet potatoes, fish sauce, lime, rice noodles and fresh herbs, and a fresh mint finish.
Vietnamese Homestyle Smoky Tomato Traybake brings vietnamese flavor to a practical traybake built with sweet potatoes, fish sauce, lime, rice noodles and fresh herbs, and a fresh mint finish.
A coconut milk chicken curry with sweet potato and lemongrass, milder and sweeter than its Thai or Indian cousins.
Match the type to the dish: floury/starchy potatoes (Maris Piper, russet) for fluffy mash and crisp roasts; waxy ones for salads and gratins that need to hold their shape. Avoid green or sprouting tubers.
Store cool and dark, never in the fridge. Parboiling then roughing up the edges gives the crunchiest roast potatoes; soaking cut chips removes surface starch for crisper frying.
A filling source of potassium, vitamin C and resistant starch — most of the fibre and nutrients sit just under the skin.
Most of these 3 Vietnamese potatoes recipes are ready in around 57 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Dalat Smoky Tomato Traybake, takes about 51 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 65 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 480 to 511 kcal per serving, averaging 499 kcal — Vietnamese Yellow Chicken Curry (Ca Ri Ga) is the lightest option at 480 kcal.
Dalat Smoky Tomato Traybake is a great place to start — it's rated hard and comes together in about 51 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, potatoes is most often paired with onion, garlic, fish sauce, fine sea salt, rice noodles and mint. Vietnamese kitchens also lean on fish sauce, lime, fresh herbs, lemongrass, chilli and rice.
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