Saturday, May 10, 2008

Pork Rice Cake(Bánh Giò)


INGREDIENTS:
*For the filling:
-100gr ground pork
- 30gr dried cat's ear mushroom
- 20gr chopped onion
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- salt, pepper, sugar, fish sauce to taste
- Quail eggs
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*For the rice batter:
- The same ingredients as steamed shrimp rice cake
- Banana leaves cut in large triangle, around 15"x10"

PREPARATION:
*For the filling:
- Soak the mushroom in boilling water for 30 minutes then rinse well and chop finely
- Mix ground pork and mushroom together, marinate with salt,pepper,sugar,and fish sauce for 30 minutes
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- Fry onion in large pan with some oil, stir in the pork until well-donedImage and video hosting by TinyPic

*For the rice batter:
- The process is the same as steamed shrimp rice cake. However, the batter should be thicker than in the shrimp cake.
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- The process of wrapping the cake can be found in here. However, for the more simplicity, I use my own method (of course it doesn't look nice as original one but it's much more easier)
-Rolling banana leaves into funnel shape
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- Put in the first half rice batter
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- Fill with pork and 1 quail egg
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- Topped with another half rice batter
- Fold the edges to make sure the rice batter doesn't leakImage and video hosting by TinyPic
- Tied with small ropes
- Steam for 30-60 minutes (The original recipe requires the cake to be boiled in 1 hour.However, because the way I wrapped my cake is not tight enough, it can be leaked easily)
- If don't have banana leaves, foil can be used as substitution
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-This is how the cake turns out

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