Banh Bot Chien

Name: Banh Bot Chien
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 300g rice flour cake (bột), cut into cubes; 3 eggs, beaten; Spring onions, sliced; Pickled green papaya or daikon; Sauce: soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and chilli; Oil for frying

Bánh bột chiên/bang boht CHEE-en/

Also known as: Bot Chien, Vietnamese Fried Rice Cake, Saigon Fried Rice Flour Cake

About this dish

Cubes of rice flour cake fried until crisp, then cooked with egg into a golden cake and served with pickled papaya and sweet soy.

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Ingredients

🍚300g rice flour cake (bột), cut into cubes

🥚3 eggs, beaten

🌿Spring onions, sliced

🥭Pickled green papaya or daikon

🫙Sauce: soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and chilli

🛢️Oil for frying

Method

Serves 2

Fry the rice cake cubes in oil until crisp on all sides.

Spread them out in a single layer in the pan.

Pour the eggs over and let them set around the cubes.

Flip in sections and cook until golden, adding spring onions.

Serve with pickled papaya and the sweet soy sauce.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Bánh bột chiên is a Saigon street food with Chinese Teochew roots, cooked on large flat griddles in the evenings.

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