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Banh Xeo Vietnamese Happy Pancakes

happypancakes.jpgPancakes 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
~ 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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