BÁNH ĐÚC TÔM THỊT (Shrimp pork rice cake)

Rice cake made of rice flour and lime juice is a Viet Nam traditional cake. It’s soft, flavorful with the thick topping.

Ingredients:

•          Rice flour: 80g
•          Coconut cream: 600ml
•          Ground pork lean:50g
•          Dried shrimp: 20g
•          Coconut: 1cup
•          Red pearl onion, jicama shredded, finely chopped garlic, chili, green shallot, coriander, lemon
•          Fish sauce, sugar, oil
•          Seasoning flour

Bánh đúc tôm thịt

Directions:

1.        .  Preparing

- Soak dried shrimp until tender and crush. Slightly boil the shredded jicama, drain.

- Fry the red pearl onion until smelling and soft, add ground pork, jicama and dried shrimp, season with ½ spoon fish sauce and 1 spoon sugar.

- Mix rice flour with coconut cream, season with ½ spoon seasoning flour and 1 spoon oil, put on stove and stir until denser.

1.  2. Steam cake

-   Oiling the mold, have a plastic on, add ½ the flour mixture into the mold, sprinkle a layer of stuffing, add the other ½ of flour mixture and sprinkle the rest of stuffing.

-  Steam the cake on boiling water in 15 mins until cooked. Get the cake out, decorate with coriander.

-  Mix the sauce: mix 1cup coconut, 1 spoon sugar, 1spoon lime juice, 1.5 spoon fish sauce, garlic and chili.

1.  3. Serving

 Place the cake on a plate, serve with the mixing fish sauce.