Mini Bánh Mì Bites Recipes

BANH MI

Steps:

• Place rice vinegar, water, and sugar into a saucepan over medium heat, bring to a boil, and stir until the sugar has dissolved, about 1 minute. Allow the mixture to cool.
• Pour the cooled vinegar mixture over the carrot, radish, and onion in a bowl, and allow to stand for at least 30 minutes. Drain off the excess vinegar mixture after the vegetables have marinated.
• While the vegetables are marinating, preheat the oven's broiler, and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source. Lightly oil a slotted broiler pan.
• Sprinkle the chicken breast with garlic salt and pepper, and broil on slotted broiler pan, turning once, until the center of the chicken breast is no longer pink and the surface has browned, about 6 minutes per side. Remove the broiled chicken, and slice into bite-size pieces.
• Slice the baguette in half the long way, and pull the center of the bread out of the baguette halves, leaving a cavity for the filling. Place the baguette halves under the broiler to lightly toast, 2 to 3 minutes.
• To assemble the bahn mi sandwich, spread each half of the toasted baguette with mayonnaise, and fill the cavity of the bottom half of the bread with broiled chicken, cucumber slices, pickled carrot, onion, and radish, cilantro leaves, and jalapeno pepper. Squeeze a wedge of lime over the filling, and top with the other half of the baguette.

MINI BáNH Mì BITES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Using your hands, combine ground turkey, grated onion, diced onion, green onion, carrot, cilantro, garlic, soy sauce, 2 teaspoons sesame oil, fish sauce, 2 teaspoons sirracha, brown sugar, egg and panko in a medium bowl. Do not over mix.
• Use a small cookie scoop to form meat into 1-inch meatballs and line up on a cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes or until meatballs are golden brown and cooked through.
• While the meatballs cook, toss sliced cucumbers and radishes with 2 tablespoons rice vinegar in a small bowl. (The radishes may tint the cucumbers, if you don't want them to bleed at all, marinate them in separate bowls.)
• Also while the meatballs cook, mix remaining vinegar, sirracha, sesame oil and mayo in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Skewer one slice of cucumber and one slice of radish onto cocktail skewer, followed by one meatball. Serve with mayo.

BEEF BANH MI BITES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In medium bowl, stir together carrot, radish, cucumber, sriracha sauce, vinegar, lime juice and cilantro. Set aside.
• Arrange bread slices on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until lightly toasted.
• In small bowl, stir together mayonnaise and five-spice powder. Spread 1 teaspoon mayonnaise mixture on each bread slice. Place a quarter slice roast beef on each bread slice. Top with 1 teaspoon vegetable mixture.