Sizzling Rice Crepes

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These crepes, called banh xeo, look similar omelets and present an array of flavors and textures. Cooking the crepes tin instrumentality immoderate practice. Adjust the vigor and clip until you get it right, but beryllium assured that adjacent if a fewer autumn apart, the pieces volition sensation great. You’ll person dipping sauce, called nuoc cham, near over, which is bully quality due to the fact that it's bully connected anything. Use it to formal vegetables, noodles, atom oregon grilled meat.

The batter tin beryllium made up to 2 days successful beforehand and refrigerated. Bring to country somesthesia earlier using.

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Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6 (makes 6 crepes)

For the dipping sauce

1/2 cupful lukewarm water, oregon much arsenic needed
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons caller lime juice
3 tablespoons food sauce, oregon much arsenic needed
1 Thai oregon serrano chile pepper, thinly sliced (optional)

For the crepe

3/4 cupful (4 1/2 ounces) achromatic atom flour
1 tablespoonful cornstarch
1/2 spoon good oversea salt, positive much arsenic needed
1/2 spoon crushed turmeric
1 1/2 cups precise blistery h2o (see NOTE)
1/3 cupful full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk, good stirred
8 tablespoons (1/2 cup) canola oil
10 ounces crushed pork (may substitute crushed turkey oregon beef)
8 ounces tiny shrimp, peeled, deveined and tails removed
4 mushrooms, achromatic fastener oregon shiitake, thinly sliced
1/4 cupful thinly sliced yellowish bulb (about 1/2 tiny onion)
3 cups mung legume sprouts

For serving

1 lettuce head, specified arsenic bibb, Boston oregon greenish leaf
1/2 cupful mixed caller herbs, specified arsenic cilantro, mint and Thai basil

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
460
Fat
33 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
Sodium
330 mg
Cholesterol
90 mg
Protein
21 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Vietnamese Food Any Day: Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors" by Andrea Nguyen (Ten Speed Press, 2019).

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published December 8, 2019

Updated March 16, 2026