SHRIMP AND PORK RICE FLOUR CAKE (BÁNH ĐÚC TÔM THỊT )

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

Ingredients:

Original recipe makes 2 servings

     -         Rice flour: 80g

     -         Coconut cream: 600ml

     -         Ground lean pork: 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

     

PREP 10 mins

COOK 30 mins

READY 40 mins

Direction:

     1.      Prepare

- 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

     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 1 cup coconut, 1 spoon sugar, 1 spoon lime juice, 1.5 spoon fish sauce, garlic and chili.

     3.      Serving

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

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