How to make super simple shrimp lice cake with Central taste

Banh beo with shrimp lice is a very familiar dish to the people of Central Vietnam. Cake is made from rice flour combined with fragrant shrimp lice, dipped with fish sauce or coconut milk. In today’s article, lassho.edu.vn will show you how to make a super simple but delicious central dish.

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
2 – 3 people

Ingredients for making shrimp lice pancakes

• 150g fresh shrimp
• 100g rice flour
• 40g tapioca flour
• 1 loaf of bread
• Water
• Green onion, garlic, chili
• Seasoning: Salt, seasoning, cooking oil, cashew oil.
• Tools: Pot, blender, knife, cutting board, cup,…

Tips for choosing delicious fresh shrimp:
– Fresh shrimp usually have shells, head and legs firmly attached to the body, legs and shell are transparent, body is curved and fleshy, shell joints are still flexible and tail is folded.
– Do not choose to buy shrimp with spread tails, unusually stout or stretched bodies because they may have been injected with chemicals to keep freshness.
– If the shrimp’s legs are loose, blackened or the shell is glossy, opaque white, not transparent, it means that the shrimp is rotten.

Ingredients for making shrimp lice pancakes

How to make shrimp cake with lice

Step 1Process materials

After buying shrimp, you remove the head, peel the shell, take the black thread and then wash it thoroughly with water.

Peel and mince garlic. Chilli washed, de-stemmed, finely chopped. Scallions remove the root and shriveled leaves, wash and finely chop.

Good tip:
– To peel and remove shrimp thread quickly, use a sharp knife to thread the shrimp’s back and then cut a line from head to tail. Then peel and cut the shrimp body lengthwise and remove the black thread.
– Shrimp can be soaked with diluted brine or a mixture of sugar and white wine to remove the fishy smell of shrimp more effectively.

Process materials

Step 2Mix the flour

You put in a bowl 150g rice flour, 40 tapioca starch, ½ teaspoon salt, then mix and slowly add 150ml of filtered water. Once the dough has dissolved, let it rest for about 30 minutes.

Mix the flour

Step 3Boiled and lice shrimp

You boil the shrimp for about 5 minutes until the shrimp is cooked, then take it out and bring it to a puree with a blender. Remember to keep 1 cup of shrimp broth to make a dipping sauce to make the flavor more intense.

Shrimps

Next, you put 1 tablespoon of cooking oil in the pan with ½ of the minced garlic to fry until fragrant. When the garlic is fragrant, add the minced shrimp meat, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds, and 1 teaspoon of cashew oil to the pan, stir until the shrimp is dry, then turn off the heat.

Shrimp lice

Step 4Make onion fat

Put finely chopped onions, ⅓ teaspoon salt and ⅓ teaspoon sugar in a bowl. Then boil 6 tablespoons of cooking oil and then put it in a cup of onions and stir with a spoon to dissolve the seasoning.

Make onion fat

Step 5Fried bread

You heat 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and then fry the bread until the white part of the bread turns light yellow, then turn off the heat.

Fried bread

Step 6Steamed buns

First, you need to spread a thin layer of cooking oil on the inside of the cup so that the cake does not stick, you should use a dipping cup, the cake will look more beautiful.

Next, you put about ½ patch of flour soup into each cup and put it in the steamer. You steam the cake on medium heat for about 10 minutes, then take it out of the cup and arrange on a plate.

Steamed buns

Step 7Make dipping sauce

You put 3 teaspoons of sugar, 6 teaspoons of fish sauce, minced garlic and minced chili into the bowl of shrimp broth, then stir well to dissolve the spices.

Make dipping sauce

Step 8Finished product

Beautiful, delicious shrimp lice cake

You put shrimp lice, fried bread and onion fat on each piece of banh beo and you will have a delicious burnt shrimp cake immediately.

Enjoy

So the eye-catching shrimp and lice cake is complete. White beo cake is smooth, chewy, chewy, shrimp meat has a strong smell of garlic, fragrant onion fat, all create a delicious taste that is hard to resist.

Beautiful, delicious shrimp lice cake

Above is how to make the standard Central style shrimp beo cake that lassho.edu.vn wants to send to you. Although the method has many steps, it is actually extremely simple. Try making it for the whole family to enjoy!

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