Vietnamese pancake (Bahn Xeo)

Name: Vietnamese Bahn Xeo recipe - Vietnamese pancake recipe
Ingredients: 135g rice flour; 65g cornflour; 1tsp turmeric; 250ml coconut milk; 2 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped; Groundnut oil, for frying; 4tbsp hot water (you may want more); 2tbsp caster sugar; 2 limes, juice; 4tbsp fish sauce; 1 red bird’s eye chilli, finely chopped; 1 clove garlic, very finely chopped; 2tbsp groundnut oil; 1 onion, halved and cut into crescent moon-shaped slices; 350g pork fillet, sliced; 500g raw king prawns, shelled; 250g beansprouts; 2 romaine lettuces, leaves separated; 100g coriander leaves; 50g Thai basil; 30g mint leaves

Pronounced ban see-ow, these pancake-style dishes can be found all over Vietnam

By Diana Henry

1 September 2021

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Issy Croker

For this pancake recipe, if feeding a crowd, I often make the filling separately and add it to each pancake before it is fully cooked, otherwise you are cooking pancake number eight when the first pancake has been eaten.