From Ladies' Home Journal

Mango, shrimp, cucumber, and fresh herbs make these cold appetizers perfect for summer.

Fresh Summer Spring Rolls

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This dish uses the classic Vietnamese braising method that uses caramelized sugar as the base for the braising liquid. If you can find Chinese brown sugar (check out its Ingredient Discovery profile to learn more), it will give the braise a deep, complex flavor.

Vietnamese Chicken with Ginger

From Better Homes and Gardens

This traditional Asian stir-fry is fast, easy, and flavorful. A perfect week night meal that combines chicken, bean sprouts, and rice noodles with a crunchy peanut topping.

Chicken Pad Thai

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Use a heavy-duty pan with a light-color surface, which will make it easy to monitor the color of the caramel as it darkens. Nonstick or other pans with dark finishes make it difficult to see what's going on.

Vietnamese-Style Caramel-Braised Chicken

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Pho is a classic Vietnamese soup made from a long-simmered spiced beef broth poured over cooked rice noodles and thinly sliced raw beef (the heat of the broth cooks the beef). The soup is garnished with lots of bright, fresh ingredients, like herbs, scallions, and lime. This superfast version calls for doctoring store-bough broth with the same spices, and using thinly sliced leftover steak in place of the raw meat. It's not the real thing, but it comes close to being just as tasty, especially on a busy weeknight.

Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Herbs

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Sugar, lime juice, fish sauce, and chile make a simple yet classic sauce - one that's practically requisite at any Vietnamese meal. Here it's drizzled over fish fillets.

Vietnamese Tilapia with Turmeric & Dill

From Food & Wine

Vietnamese summer rolls are often filled with or shrimp, but Grace Parisi makes hers with roast beef from the deli.

Roast Beef Summer Rolls

From Better Homes and Gardens

When you want a quick dinner, try these shrimp and vegetable spring rolls. Serve them with peanut sauce for dipping.

Asian Spring Rolls

From Better Homes and Gardens

Crispy, tart, and aromatic, these little wrapped salads are filled with texture and flavor.

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

From Better Homes and Gardens

Translucent rice paper wraps up a mixture of zestfully spiced Daikon radishes, jalapeno peppers, carrots, and cucumbers for this Asian-inspired appetizer recipe.

Vegetable Spring Rolls

From Better Homes and Gardens

While lo mein gets its name from the kind of Chinese noodle traditionally used in the dish, other noodles, including angel hair pasta and vermicelli, easily can be substituted in this slow cooker special.

Pork lo Mein

From Better Homes and Gardens

Low in calories and fat, this chicken and snow pea soup recipe is diet friendly for lunch or dinner.

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this Vietnamese-style wilted salad with grilled fish or chicken for a delightful summertime meal.

Hot-Style Garlic Spinach

From Food & Wine

To save time, Ratha Chau suggests spiking store-bought pesto with chiles, lime and fish sauce instead of making the pesto here.

Piquillo-Pepper Num Pangs

From Food & Wine

Charles Phan of the Slanted Door in San Francisco serves this sweet and vinegary Vietnamese dish with a tart dipping sauce of lime juice, salt, and pepper. Serve the beef with fresh lime wedges instead of a dipping sauce.

Shaking Beef

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This is a vegetarian option that everyone will love. Use with Summer Rolls.

Pineapple Lime Dipping Sauce

From Food & Wine

Thanks to her background in Vietnamese cooking, Marcia Kiesel loves the texture of sticky rice, especially when it's combined with velvety shiitake mushrooms.

Shiitake Sticky Rice

From Better Homes and Gardens

Spicy-sweet peanut sauce and crisp broccoli slaw lend Asian flavors to this grilled chicken breast sandwich recipe that goes from grill to table in 15 minutes.

Grilled Vietnamese Chicken Breasts

From Vegetarian Times

The rice paper wrappers for these Vietnamese-style summer rolls can be found in any Asian grocery store, as can the Indonesian sambal oelek hot sauce. Once you've mastered making the rolls--which is as simple as rolling a burrito--you can fill them with anything from shredded vegetables to seasoned tofu. The sesame seeds add a nice crunch.

Sugar Snap Pea Summer Rolls

From Food & Wine

The fish sauce and peanuts in this seafood stir-fry are hallmarks of Vietnamese cooking. Ample amounts of fresh ginger and lime juice bump up the flavor of the dish.

Vietnamese-Style Shrimp and Watercress Stir-Fry

From Food & Wine

Is this an American take on a Vietnamese classic or a Vietnamese take on an American classic? Either way, these spicy burgers topped with Tabasco-spiked mayonnaise, slivers of crunchy pickled carrots and sprigs of cilantro are wonderful.

Vietnamese-Style Banh Mi Burgers

From Food & Wine

For this vegetarian Vietnamese stir-fry, featuring asparagus, cauliflower and bell pepper, Marcia Kiesel substitutes soy sauce for the more traditional fish sauce. Lemongrass, basil and coconut milk make the dish fragrant and slightly sweet.

Stir-Fried Vegetables with Lemongrass

From Fine Cooking Magazine

These ribs are great served with rice noodles or steamed rice.

Barbecue-Braised Vietnamese Short Ribs with Sweet Vinegar Glaze

From Better Homes and Gardens

This traditional New Year's Eve appetizer is made using rice paper. Find the wrap at Asian food specialty markets or large supermarkets.

Petite Spring Rolls

From Food & Wine

Bubbly drinks in all their forms, from sparkling wine to fizzy ginger beer, inspire an effervescent bubble party. Pair them with a cool Vietnamese-style noodle salad tossed in a bright (and fat-free) citrus dressing.

Rice-Noodle Salad with Chicken and Herbs