Introducing Banh Xeo Viet Nam
Banh xeo is a popular type of cake in Asia, Japanese and Korean versions of banh xeo have dough on the outside, inside with shrimp, meat, bean sprouts, kimchi, potatoes, chives, (banh xeo) North Korea); Shrimp, meat, cabbage (Japanese) fried to yellow color, molded into a circle or folded into a semicircle. Depending on the locality in Vietnam, the cake is enjoyed with its own characteristics. There are usually 2 main methods: pouring crispy pancakes and chewy pancakes. Eat in two ways: eat with chopsticks or eat with chopsticks.
In Hue, this dish is often called banh Khoai and is often served with grilled meat, a dipping sauce consisting of soy sauce, liver, and peanuts. In the South of Vietnam, cakes are added with eggs and people eat pancakes with sweet and sour fish sauce. In the North of Vietnam, the filling of banh xeo, in addition to the same ingredients as other places, also adds thinly sliced beans or shredded taro.
The vegetables served with banh xeo are very diverse, including lettuce, broccoli, lettuce, perilla, basil, cinnamon leaves, young cold rice leaves… In Can Tho, there are more leaves, in Dong Thap more. Lang leaves, in Vinh Long there are more young mango leaves, in Bac Lieu there are more leaves. The most sophisticated is in the central regions of Vietnam, in addition to raw vegetables, acrid figs and sour star fruit are also added. Therefore, connoisseurs are confused as if this dish really originated from Hue.
Banh xeo Phan Thiet is different from banh xeo in other places because it is small in size and is not rolled with lettuce, but placed in a bowl of cooked fish sauce (fish sauce has been pounded with garlic and chili). On Tuyen Quang street, there are many delicious banh xeo shops, so it is also called “banh xeo street”.
Although the lotus is in the middle of an idyllic place, it still shows purity and nobility. From that meaning, “banh xeo lotus” in Saigon is a new dish that artisan Muoi Xiem has carefully created. Combining traditional ingredients with lotus seeds, lotus roots, and lotus roots makes the banh xeo full of hometown love. Besides, A Phu pancakes, Dinh Cong Trang pancakes still retain their own flavor and style over the past twenty years.
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How To Make Banh Xeo?
Rice is soaked in water to bloom. When done, add fresh turmeric (the cake will be more delicious than using dried turmeric) or powdered turmeric (if it’s turmeric powder, then grind the rice and mix it with the pureed rice mixture) and puree the soaked rice flour mixture with the flour. chopped fresh turmeric (most of them use a mill to grind rice because it’s fast, saving time and effort, but in the past, using a stone mortar to grind, some families still keep this mortar and use it. ).
Currently, there are a number of brands of ready-made pancake flour, widely available for sale. When buying, you just need to mix water according to the given ratio and you can bring it right away. In addition to turmeric to give the cake a yellow color, many places also use coconut-colored water to color the cake, the poured cake is usually slightly golden brown instead of yellow like turmeric. Especially, banh xeo has almost only rice, no other ingredients are added to create color and usually no cake filling.
Next, add desiccated coconut milk (dried coconut puree to warm water, squeeze and squeeze) into the mixture with the finished flour, leave for about 30 minutes. Before pouring the cake, add chopped green onions (about 5 mm) into the flour mixture, mix well. Many regions do not use coconut milk in the batter.
The filling consists of bacon, when boiled, add a little salt to the pot, thinly slice the shrimp, then stir-fry and add a little salt with monosodium glutamate, boiled green beans, boiled bean sprouts. In many regions, the filling is only prepared and marinated without needing to be cooked before pouring the cake.
Use a large pan to fry the cake, before pouring the flour in, put a little cooking oil in the pan to heat the oil, then use a rack to scoop a spoonful of flour into the pan, then tilt the pan so that the batter evenly coats the pan into a circle, Close the lid until the dough is slightly cooked, then put the filling in the middle, close the lid again and wait a few seconds for the cake to be crispy. In the central region, banh xeo is poured in round and flat-bottomed molds of moderate size.
Fish sauce to dip with pancakes must use delicious fish sauce mixed with water, lemon juice (for deliciousness, do not use vinegar), granulated sugar, a little monosodium glutamate, finely chopped carrots, a little minced chili if eaten spicy.
