Bahn Mi Sandwich
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What is a Banh Mi sandwich?
Banh Mi Sandwich is a Vietnamese sandwich that is made on a baguette usually made of rice and flour. Traditionally speaking, but for today’s post I used a baguette from the local grocery store. The sandwich has many variations to it, but the main ingredients used are some kind of meat, pickled vegetables, cucumbers, coriander/cilantro, spicy peppers, pate, and mayonnaise. Obviously other ingredients can be added to give your own personal touch to the sandwich, but today I kept it pretty traditional.
Tradional Bahn Mi Sandwich
Pork Marinade for Bahn Mi Sandwich
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1/2 lime (juice)
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 3 green onion chopped
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Puree all ingredients and add to thinly sliced pork. Minimum 2 hours, or overnight would be even better.
Pickled Vegetables
Ingredients
- 2 cup water
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tbs salt
- 1 tsp chilli falkes
- 3 jalapeno sliced
- 2 carrots cut into match sticks
- 6 radishes sliced
Instructions
- Combine water, rice vinegar, sugar and salt in medium size pot and bring to a boil.
- Add all other ingredients in a mason jar and add the pickling liquid. Close the lid and pickle for 1 hour at least.
Bahn Mi Sandwich
Now that we've pickled the vegetables and marinated the pork, the final steps are a lot easier.
Ingredients
- 1 pork tenderloin
- 1 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp sriracha
- 2 baguette
- 1/2 cup cucumbers thinly sliced
- 1 cup pickled vegetables
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 bunch chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Remove pork from marinade, and try to scrape or pat dry any excess of marinade. Heat oil in non-stick pan on med/high heat. Once hot cook pork 2 minutes on each side. Remove pork from pan and let rest on plate till all the pork is cooked.
- Cut you baguette length wise with a serrated knife but ensure you don't cut all the way through. Toast the baguette.
- Add mayonnaise and sriracha. Add rest of the ingredients. Press the baguette closed gently and cut in half. Enjoy!
