Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steam Rice Rolls

Described as the best Rice dish in Vietnam and nowhere try better than in Hanoi, Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steam Rice Rolls is a top of Vietnam cuisine


(Vietnam Package Tours) Once you ever make a question: What is the best dish made from Rice Flour of Vietnam? Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed Rice Rolles is the one that will come to any Vietnamese mind and it is said to be the best style with the food stalls that you can find in any Hanoi Food Tour.

Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed Rice Rolls is the best rice dish in Vietnam

Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls is a kind of roll made from thin steamed rice flour, eating it when it is still wet, filling with stuffing of rice dumpling inside (In case not stuffing of rice dumpling inside call wet roll). Banh Cuon is often served with diluted fish sauce. And if it is traditional rolls, it is integral with belostomatid oil in fish sauce and often eat with pork bologna.

How to cook

Banh Cuon before put stuffing of rice dumpling into: you need to choose delicious rice, mill finely, and mix it with water. Place the steamer, stretch thin fabric over mouth of pot. Each time, put a small flour spoon; remove all the surface of the fabric so the leaf of Banh Cuon will be thin, can dab a little extra fat to easily retrieve.

cook Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed rice roll is not easy

After roll is well done, use big chopsticks or bamboo to put into the plate. This time, you can roll extra meat, shrimp, black mushroom and hash, fried mushrooms cooked with spices such as fish sauce, sprinkle pepper. Using fried aromatic onion and sauce, served with sour, spicy, salty, and sweet enough.

Thanh Tri Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls

Thanh Tri Banh Cuon is a famous food of Hanoians, is a specialize of Thanh Tri Ward, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi. This roll is made from aromatic rice; leaf of roll is this as a paper.

Banh cuon thanh tri Hanoi

Thanh Tri Banh Cuon does not have stuffing of rice dumpling, often is arranged in layers inside a basket, cover by leafs of banana. Sellers commonly wear a basket over head, sell on the street of Hanoi. When meeting the buyers, the seller will put basket down and sell it. roll was served with fish sauce depend on the sellers, you can eat with cinnamon rolls, pork sausage, coriander and so on.

Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls with meat inside

This is the most common way to eat and make Banh Cuon from the local Vietnamese restaurants.

Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed rice roll Common serve

Rice flour is milled wet so should be very smooth. After cooked by steam, roll leaf will be rolled with meat inside; black fungus and mushroom were cooked.  After that, the baker will use bamboo to split roll which has just swept into 4 shorter parts and presented into the plate. Then using a little shrimp paste to sprinkle over and served with some vegetables as cilantro, coriander and so on. Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls will be enjoyed with a fish sauce bowl and some slices of pork pies and a little dried onion inside.

Lang Kenh Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls

Lang Kenh Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls has private secret and often hands down this job for daughter in law in their family. Rice of roll flour usually makes by Moc Tuyen. Kenh village's people do not bring Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls to sell on the street. They only sit at on store on the street or stall in the market to sell this special one. 

Lang Son egg Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls

Lang Son egg Banh Cuon only includes chicken egg, Chinese braised lean meat and broth is cooked from tibia and spices, onion, pepper and chili. Many restaurants in Lang Son use Chinese braised pork with more spicy.

Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed rice roll with Egg

 

Chicken eggs are steamed inside roll leaf, under-cooked enough to make a thin film around the yolk, help eggs not broken. Users must not pick Banh Cuon, must put the soup over roll. When eating, users will clever put piece of this roll into the mouth and try to the yolk of egg break in the mouth, mixed with storage meat water and storage meat still is hot and delicious.

Hai Duong Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls

Hai Duong delicious Banh Cuon is a kind of roll made in Han Giang and Bac Son tower. This roll is, the sprinkle fat water and onion. This roll is put inside a banana basket, insulation plastic, so when eating the roll still is hot. When eating, you must use your hand to peel off each leaf of bread, cut into small enough pieces to put into the mouth. The sauce is made by a delicious fish sauce with different seasoning to make a sauce bowl with special aroma.

Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls outside of Vietnam

In Europe, Vietnam Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls is sold in the restaurants of Vietnamese with a slightly different way. Crust of roll is often made in a pan instead of steamed over boiling water.                                                            

The video following will be a cut from Helen's Cooking Recipes - A Vietnamese American. Her work is not precisely 100% local but easy for you to cook Vietnamese Banh Cuon - Steamed Rice Rolls yourself.

We hope that this article will be useful for you to know about the most famous Vietnamese dish: Vietnamese Banh Cuon Steamed Rice Rolls. It is the best to combine its taste to your hotel in Hanoi or a Hanoi Food Tour.

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