Bánh bèo Huế ( How to make Vietnamese Steam Rice Cakes

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our channel. My name is Emily and today I'm going to show you how I make steamed rice cakes. First, we need 7 cups of room temperature water in a big mixing bowl. Then we need a whole bag of 1 pound rice flour. Next, 1 full tablespoon of glutinous rice flour or you can call it sweet rice flour. Then, we'll add 1 cup of tapioca starch. And lastly, 1 teaspoon of salt. Mix it well then leave it aside while we prepare for the steamed rice cake sauce. In order to make the sauce, we will need to boil some shrimps to get the broth. We will use the shrimp to make shredded shrimp for the toppings later on. You can find the shredded shrimp recipe in one of our previous videos. Mix ¼ cup of sugar with 3 cups of shrimp broth. Add ½ cup of fish sauce. Stir well and cook with medium heat until the foam starts to flow up. Scoop the foam out. Turn off the heat and let it cool down. In another pot, heat up ⅓ cup of olive oil. Add in ½ cup of chopped green onion. Stir it for 7 seconds. Put it in a small bowl and let it cool down. Now it's time to steam the cake. Place small plates into a steamed pot. Stir the batter before you scoop it out and put it into each plate. You can choose how thick or thin you prefer your rice cakes to be. Cover them with a lid and cook for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, take the rice cakes out and let them cool down. Put another set of plates into the pot and repeat the process. While waiting for the second batch to cook, use a kebab stick to remove the rice cakes from the plate. Run the tip around the edge of the rice cake then use 2 fingers to remove it from the plate. It will be much easier if the cakes are cooled down enough. Otherwise, they no more batter. After the process of steaming the rice cakes is done, spread the onion oil on top of the cakes along with the shredded shrimp. Now that we're done with the cakes, the fish sauce should be cooled down by now. Put into a bowl then add some chili peppers if you would like your sauce to be spicy. Time to enjoy the rice cakes! I hope you like them just as much as I do. If you want more of our cooking recipes, like and subscribe and make sure to hit that notification bell. Thank you for watching Vietnamese Home Cooking. See you next time!