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Vietnamese Rice Rolls (Bánh Cuốn)

Mai
How to make delicious Vietnamese steamed rice rolls at home using a pan. You don't need fancy equipments for this, just two pans and a lid.

Ingredients
  

Filling:

  • 300 g Minced pork if you don't eat pork, popular substitutes are chicken, mushroom, tofu
  • Wood ear mushrooms
  • 1 Onion
  • 2 tsp Salt & pepper to taste

Batter:

  • 400 g I used premixed flour from Vĩnh Thuận brand
  • 1 l water
  • 1 tbsp Oil

Garnishes:

  • Shallots
  • Coriander

Dipping sauce:

  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • lemon
  • Finely chopped chilli
  • Garlic

Instructions
 

Filling:

  • Soak the wooden ear mushrooms in hot water, once it becomes soft, chop into smaller pieces
  • In a food processor, add the pork, onion, wooden ear mushrooms and start blitzing until everything is finely minced
  • In an oiled pan, stir fry the filling until everything is well cooked.

Batter:

  • In a bowl or jug, mix the flour, water, oil together until there are no more clumps (the pack suggests 750ml water for 400g flour, however I find it to be too thick for this method so am using 1L and a tbsp of oil)

Assemble:

  • Prepare 2 pans, one filled with hot water (maintained on stove turned on at medium heat) to help generate steam onto the lid and one which we will use for cooking the pancake.
  • Lightly grease the cooking pan on low heat with some oil by using a paper napkin
  • Pour the batter using a ladle, rotate the pan so that the batter covers all the surface then quickly pour the excess batter back into the bowl of batter - this will help thin out the rice roll so that it doesn't become a thick pancake
  • Cover the pan with the lid that's been resting on the other pan filled with boiling water
  • After about 30-50 seconds, the batter should have a more transparent colour and will be ready
  • Transfer it to a working surface, usually lightly oiled so that it doesn't stick
  • Add the filling as a line in the centre and start rolling

Dipping sauce

  • I usually prepare this to taste, but as a guidelines, I usually start by mixing 1 tbsp of fish sauce with 100ml hot water, 3 tsp sugar and 4 squeezes of lemon juice.
  • Add the garlic and sliced chilli
  • Then, I adjust accordingly to taste

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