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Banh Xeo Vietnamese Happy Pancakes |
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Pancakes Ingredients:
- 3.5 cups rice flour
- 1 Qt water
- .5 teaspoon Turmeric (or curry powder)
- 2 stalks green onion, thinly sliced
- Vegetable oil for the pancakes
Filling Ingredients
- 8 oz ground pork
- 8 oz shrimp, peeled, divined
- 2 cloves chopped garlic
- 2 cloves chopped shallot
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- 10 pieces button mushroom, sliced
- 3.5 cups bean sprouts
- 1.5 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Preparation
~ Whisk rice flour and water together, add turmeric and green onions mix well and set aside
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In a sauté pan with a medium high heat ad vegetable oil, shallot and
garlic and cook for a few seconds then add ground pork and cook for a
minute or until the pork cook to medium. Add shrimp, onion and
mushroom and cook for a minute, add fish sauce and pepper and keep
cooking until the filling is cooked. Add on bean sprout and cook for a
minute or until the bean sprouts are cooked. Set aside.
~ In another
large non-stick sauté pan, with medium low heat ad about a tablespoon
of vegetable oil and spread around. Add pancakes mix about three
ounces or enough to have a thin even layer. Keep cooking for a minute
or until the batter is cooked add the filling on one side of the
pancake, so you can fold the other on top like a half moon shaped.
~ Served with Sweet and Sour Fish Sauce (Nuoc Mam) by combine the ingredients below together.
Ingredients for Nuoc Mam
- 2 cloves garlic, fine chopped
- 6 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons lime juice or vinegar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons carrot, fine julienne to an inch long
- 1 tablespoon roasted peanut, chopped
- 8 pieces mint leaf fine chiffonade
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