Vietnamese Recipes: Traditional Method

Less Time, But Fickle

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore

By Robert Danhi

Published 2008

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Ingredients

  • ½ cup Sugar
  • ¼ cup Water

Method

  1. Place sugar in a dry, super-clean 2-quart saucepan. Heat over medium heat without stirring until sugar begins to liquefy and turn brown around perimeter of sugar—at least a inch border of melted sugar.
  2. Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon or heatproof spatula until it