ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, check kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by senior check kitchen editor Shilpa Uskokovic to talk with Anna and Ni Nguyen, the chef-owners of Denver’s Sap Sua, considered one of Bon Appétit’s 20 Finest New Eating places of 2024. They speak about their story, their restaurant, and the three dishes which have made the leap from Sap Sua’s menu to the pages of Bon Appétit.
Co-owners (and married couple) Anna and Ni opened Sap Sua, their Vietnamese American restaurant, in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood in June 2023. The menu is a product of collaboration with the entire kitchen crew and options most of the dishes that Ni ate rising up—like brown butter and fish sauce scrambled eggs, fried tofu with ginger scallion sauce, and hamachi collar with coconut caramel. These dishes may not sound like recipes you’d try to make at house, however Shilpa labored with Anna and Ni on variations that are perfect for house cooks.
As an alternative of utilizing hamachi collars, we use the identical savory caramel sauce on seared salmon fillets, dusted with crispy rice cereal as a substitute of cốm dep (delicate flakes of younger sticky rice). For the brown butter scrambled eggs, we skip straining the eggs via a fine-mesh strainer, in addition to the trout roe garnish. You possibly can take a look at the up to date recipes for Fish With Coconut Caramel, Brown Butter Scrambled Eggs, and Fried Tofu With Scallion-Oil Sauce on bonappetit.com and within the Epicurious app.
Hear now to listen to extra about Anna and Ni’s journey to turning into considered one of our Finest New Eating places and the pages of Bon Appetit, and skim concerning the full record right here.
