Banh Gio

Name: Banh Gio
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 200g rice flour and 30g tapioca starch; 1 litre pork or chicken stock; 300g minced pork; Wood ear mushrooms, soaked and chopped; Shallots, chopped, and fish sauce; Quail eggs, boiled and peeled; Banana leaves

Bánh giò/bahn YAW/

Also known as: Banh Gio Ha Noi, Vietnamese Pyramid Rice Dumplings, Vietnamese Steamed Rice Dumplings

About this dish

Soft, pyramid-shaped rice flour dumplings filled with minced pork, wood ear mushrooms and quail egg, steamed in banana leaves.

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Ingredients

🌾200g rice flour and 30g tapioca starch

🍲1 litre pork or chicken stock

🐖300g minced pork

🍄Wood ear mushrooms, soaked and chopped

🧅Shallots, chopped, and fish sauce

🥚Quail eggs, boiled and peeled

🍃Banana leaves

Method

Serves 2

Fry the shallots, then the pork and mushrooms, and season with fish sauce and pepper.

Whisk the flours into the stock and cook, stirring, until it forms a thick paste.

Fold banana leaves into cones and spoon in some paste.

Add pork filling and a quail egg, then cover with more paste and fold into a pyramid.

Steam for about 30 minutes and serve warm with chilli sauce.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Bánh giò is a northern Vietnamese breakfast and afternoon snack, sold warm from carts and street corners in Hanoi.

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