Ingredients for making Banh Gio include:
2 cups of flour
1 cup rice flour
500gr minced pork (choose lean meat to make the cake better)
50gr mushroom cat (frog ears)
20 - 30 quail eggs
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 spoonful of fish sauce
Spices: pepper, sugar, seasoning powder
6 cups of water (if you want to add baked bread, you can use water bones)
Banana leaf, stripe
With the above, you can make batches of 15-20.
How to make delicious Banh Gio as follows:
Step 1: Mix chopped meat, chopped mushrooms, oil, fish sauce, add seasoning to taste, depending on taste
Step 2: Divide the mixture into 15-20 capsules and then steam for 10-15 minutes
Step 3: Put the flour, rice flour and water or bone marrow into water, mix well, then soak the flour from 1-4 hours to flour evenly.
Step 4: Put the mixture of dough after soaking on medium heat, stirring evenly so that the powder does not clot. In the case of lumps, you can use the egg whisk machine to mix the flour in a moderate manner. The goal is to powder is white opaque, glossy, no lumps. Equivalent to cream cake or a little more dense.
Step 5: Rinse banana leaves, dry and flush with boiling water if fresh banana leaves.
Step 6: Banana leaves: If the banana leaves are big and not torn, then folded into two layers. The inner layer turns the green side of the leaf upward, the outer layer leaving the leaf surface green. If the banana leaves are small and torn, they are evenly spaced so that the leaves are wider than A4 and remain in two layers as above.
Then fold the leaves twice diagonally, get a triangle. Hold the palm of the tip, open the leaves will be a funnel shape.
Step 7: Add a tablespoon of flour to the leaf hopper, add the cooked meatballs to the top with 1-2 eggs, then add 1 tablespoon of powder into the banana leaf funnel.
Step 8: Fold banana leaves from the four corners so that the hands are tightly closed so that the powder does not overflow while steaming and tethering so that the leaves do not expand.
Step 9: Put the cake into steamed rice cake about 20 minutes.