Don’t you just love the colours this picture?! A feast for the tummy and for the eyes! Banh mi is such a satisfying meal on it’s own, with a good balance of vegetables, protein, and carbo. I love the play of taste and texture on a good banh mi. The fresh crisp bite of cucumber, and cilantro, with the slightly sweet pickled carrot and radish, the lovely tender and well-seasoned beef cooked to your preference, and the slight kick from the red chilli all nicely enveloped in a crusty French loaf. Salivating yet?
Quite honestly, it’s a meal that require very simple ingredients and doesn’t take much effort to make. I added some fried shallot for extra crunch and to build another layer of flavour. Do remember to buy or make some good French loaf, as it does make a difference!
Lemongrass Beef Banh Mi
Makes a foot long good for 2
Ingredients
Lemongrass Beef Banh Mi
- 250-300 g flank steak cut against grain thinly
- 2 cloves garlic pressed or minced
- 1 stalk lemongrass ends finely minced
- 1-2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp minced fresh basil
- Black pepper to taste
- 1-2 tbsp canola oil
- Foot long French baguette
- 1/2 cup cilantro/chinese parsley
- 1/2 cucumber thinly sliced
- 1 red chilli seeded and sliced
- butter for baguette optional
- 2-3 tbsp of fried shallots
- Prepared pickled radish and carrot recipe below
Pickled radish and carrot
- 1 cup julienne daikon radish
- 1/2 cup julienne carrot
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
Pickled daikon and carrot
- Dissolve salt and sugar in water and vinegar. Add daikon and carrot. Keep chilled for at least 3 hours. Drain before serving.
Lemongrass Beef Banh Mi
- Mix together flank steak, lemongrass, basil, garlic, fish sauce, and black pepper.
- Allow to marinate for 30 mins or longer.
- Heat pan on med high with canola oil.
- Stir-fry beef very quickly until desired done-ness, don't over cook it. It only takes a couple of minutes!
- Split baguette and butter the top and bottom.
- Build your banh mi.
- Cucumber, beef, fried shallot, pickled daikon and carrot, chilli, and cilantro.
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5 Comments
Zoe
6 January, 2015 at 4:48 amHi Sharon,
No more delishar already??? :p hee hee…
Happy 2015!!! Love your lemongrass Vietnamese beef rolls… You are very pro with these!!!
Zoe
Angie.S
4 August, 2015 at 8:21 amWe are big fans of BanhMi but v difficult to get nice baguette to make it ourselves. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Do you have recipe for homemade Pho too? 🙂
Marage
4 August, 2015 at 8:24 amplease upload some more bread receipes:)
Michelle Ong
4 August, 2015 at 11:30 amLove to see more easy, fuss free one dish meal recipes 🙂
Kero Leen
4 August, 2015 at 7:35 pmLooks so good. Would like to cook for my family too. Thanks for sharing this recipe.