Steamed rice noodles with pork terrine and cured pork (Bánh cuôn cha lua nem chua)

from Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Recipes from the Heart (page 168)by Pauline Nguyen and Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen

  • spring onions
  • nam seasoning
  • rice noodles (could not source rolled sheets in time, so substituted, dried and pre boiled them. Recipe calls for 400g for 2. I found 200g more than sufficient.)
  • Vietnamese mint
  • Lebanese cucumbers
  • garlic
  • cured pork (I substituted prosciutto)
  • Thai bird’s eye chiles
  • dipping fish sauce (page 33)
  • spring onion oil (page 37)
  • mint
  • fried Asian shallots (page 38)
  • bean sprouts
  • pork skin
  • limes
  • perilla

Pork terrine, p195 (ground pork leg, fish sauce and salt)

Big explosion of flavours here! I think prawns could work well instead of pork

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