tiết canh
{{Short description|Raw blood pudding with cooked meat}}
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| country = Northern Vietnam
| region = Southeast Asia
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| type = Pudding
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| main_ingredient = Blood (swine or duck), fish sauce, meat, peanuts, herbs (Vietnamese coriander, mint)
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Tiết canh is a Vietnamese dish of raw blood pudding served with cooked meat across Vietnam. Pork and duck are the most common animal used to create this raw blood pudding. The most popular is tiết canh vịt, made from freshly killed duck blood, pork and chicken.
Tiết canh can be made from duck, goat, pig, goose, chicken, calf,{{Cite news |last= |date=2024-08-28 |title=Ăn tiết canh hấp có an toàn hơn ăn sống? |url=https://plo.vn/an-tiet-canh-hap-co-an-toan-hon-an-song-post807345.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240830110712/https://plo.vn/an-tiet-canh-hap-co-an-toan-hon-an-song-post807345.html |archive-date=2024-08-30 |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=Báo Pháp Luật TP. Hồ Chí Minh |language=vi}}{{Cite news |last= |date=2024-10-14 |title=Đặc sản Việt trên bàn nhậu nhưng là nỗi ám ảnh với khách Tây |url=https://kienthuc.net.vn/doi-song/dac-san-viet-tren-ban-nhau-nhung-la-noi-am-anh-voi-khach-tay-2041463.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241214050651/https://kienthuc.net.vn/doi-song/dac-san-viet-tren-ban-nhau-nhung-la-noi-am-anh-voi-khach-tay-2041463.html |archive-date=2024-12-14 |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=kienthuc.net.vn |language=vi}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-08-28 |title=Bác sĩ giải thích về món tiết canh bê |url=https://tuoitre.vn/bac-si-giai-thich-ve-mon-tiet-canh-be-20230828010835256.htm |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=TuoiTre Online |language=vi}} as well as from snake, crab, lobster, blood cockle,{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-08-26 |title=Sự thật hãi hùng về món tiết canh |url=https://phapluatxahoi.kinhtedothi.vn/su-that-hai-hung-ve-mon-tiet-canh-256030.html |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Pháp Luật và Xã hội - Chuyên trang của Báo Kinh tế & Đô thị |language=vi}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2013-11-14 |title=Thử làm tiết canh sò huyết |url=https://thanhnien.vn/thu-lam-tiet-canh-so-huyet-185633074.htm |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=thanhnien.vn |language=vi}}{{Cite web |title=Tiết canh sò huyết lạ miệng bổ dưỡng |url=https://ngoisao.vnexpress.net/tiet-canh-so-huyet-la-mieng-bo-duong-3210750.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=Báo Ngôi Sao: Chuyên trang giải trí của VnExpress}} or vegetables.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=22 February 2016 |title=Tiết canh "chay" ngày Rằm rúng động mạng XH |url=https://vietnamnet.vn/tiet-canh-chay-ngay-ram-rung-dong-mang-xh-290373.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=VietNamNet News |language=vietnamese}}{{Cite web |date=2024-01-06 |title=Cách làm tiết canh chay từ rau củ quả vừa lạ miệng vừa an toàn |url=https://phunutoday.vn/cach-lam-tiet-canh-chay-tu-rau-cu-qua-vua-la-mieng-vua-an-toan-d397081.html |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Bao Phu nu |language=vi}}
Consumption of tiết canh is also associated with good fortune.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2008-04-05 |title=Rủ nhau đi lấy 'Đỏ' đầu tháng |url=https://tuoitre.vn/ru-nhau-di-lay-do-dau-thang-250548.htm |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=TuoiTre Online |language=vi}}
Typical preparation
The freshly drawn blood is collected in a bowl, and prevented from premature coagulation (hãm huyết), by mixing it with some fish sauce of certain proportions, usually three to five soup spoons of fish sauce for one quart (approximately 1 liter) of blood. Finely chopped meat such as cooked duck innards (gizzards, for example) and duck meat are put in a shallow dish along with a sprinkling of crushed peanuts and chopped herbs such as Vietnamese coriander, mint, etc. The blood and fish sauce mixture is then diluted with some watery broth left from cooking the meat and/or gizzards to promote blood coagulation, then quickly poured into the prepared meat dish. The finished dish can be kept cool in the refrigerator, which allows the blood to maintain its coagulated state, when immediate consumption is not called for right away. If the dish is removed from the refrigerator and left to sit at room temperature for a while the blood will return to a liquid state.
Health risk
Raw pig's blood often contains swine bacteria, and ingesting them may cause severe bacterial infections.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/swine-bacteria-kills-man-in-northern-vietnam-23965.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302112128/http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/swine-bacteria-kills-man-in-northern-vietnam-23965.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 2, 2014|title=Swine bacteria kills man in northern Vietnam|date=2014-02-10|work=Thanh Nien Daily|access-date=2018-01-16}} For example, a Streptococcus bacterium infection may cause respiratory decline, blood contamination, and severe necrosis in arms and legs, and is potentially fatal. There are reports of human casualties after eating raw blood pudding.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/2-die-in-vietnam-of-swine-bacteria-after-eating-raw-blood-pudding-47602.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712080159/http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/2-die-in-vietnam-of-swine-bacteria-after-eating-raw-blood-pudding-47602.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 12, 2015|title=2 die in Vietnam of swine bacteria after eating raw blood pudding|date=2015-07-07|work=Thanh Nien Daily|access-date=2018-01-16}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-05-07 |title=Tiết canh dê: Nguy cơ chết người trong món đặc sản "lành, sạch" |url=https://dantri.com.vn/suc-khoe/tiet-canh-de-nguy-co-chet-nguoi-trong-mon-dac-san-lanh-sach-20240507142912119.htm |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Báo điện tử Dân Trí |language=vi}}
See also
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References
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External links
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- [https://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/sets/72057594073092132/ Photos of tiết canh by Tristan Savatier] from Flickr
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