28/07/2026
Prawn Cracker Soup
Prawn cracker soup is an original, unexpected dish that adds variety to the family menu. Suitable for every age.
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Quick steamed cakes from prawn crackers
Making bánh bèo from steamed prawn crackers is a brilliant shortcut when a craving strikes. Simply soak the crackers in warm water and steam them through.
Making bánh bèo from steamed prawn crackers is a brilliant shortcut when a craving strikes. Simply soak the crackers in warm water and steam them through. They turn translucent, chewy and soft, exactly like traditional bánh bèo, with no batter to mix.
Ingredients (serves 4)
- Prawn crackers 200 g
- Peeled prawn 100 g
- Carrot 50 g
- Lettuce and fresh herbs 100 g
- Shallot (spring onion), cooking oil, fish sauce, salt, sugar, seasoning powder, garlic, chilli
Method
- 1
Soak the crackers
Soak the prawn crackers in warm water for 30-60 minutes until soft.
- 2
Make the topping
Peel the prawns and chop or blend them with the carrot. Simmer the prawn until almost done, add the carrot, and finish with spring onion.
- 3
Steam the bases
Lift the crackers out and drain. Lay them one by one in a steamer for 5-7 minutes; once they look translucent they are done.
- 4
Plate up
Lettuce or fresh herbs at the bottom, then the freshly steamed cracker, and the prawn and carrot topping on top.
The dish is even better with garlic-chilli fish sauce. It is a lovely meeting of southern Vietnamese cooking and modern plating — fresh, crisp and hard to forget.
For vegetarians
Use the same method with a vegetarian topping and crackers from the Green range — vegetable crackers, lotus seed and purple sweet potato crackers, lotus seed and butterfly pea flower crackers, premium lotus seed vegetarian crackers and so on — for a beautiful plate of steamed vegetarian bánh bèo.
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