DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Banh Xeo
Also known as: Bánh xèo
Crisp rice crêpes enclosing pork, shrimp, mung beans and sprouts.

About Banh Xeo
Hungry Huy presents these large southern Vietnamese bánh xèo through his mother’s time-tested recipe. This traditional-style rendition has an all-rice-flour batter coloured with turmeric and enriched with coconut cream and green onion, surrounding pork, shrimp, mung beans and bean sprouts.
The crisp crêpe carries savoury pork and seafood, with onion in the filling. Mint, cilantro and optional Vietnamese perilla accompany the mustard greens, while prepared Vietnamese dipping sauce supplies a contrasting fish-sauce seasoning.
Each crêpe is folded in half and served immediately. Pieces are wrapped in greens and herbs for eating, preserving the contrast between the delicate crisp shell and fresh vegetables.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Crustaceans, Mustard, Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Banh Xeo
Hungry Huy’s southern bánh xèo with an all-rice-flour batter.
- Rice flourBase
- TurmericSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Coconut creamLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Green onionAromatic
- Dried mung beansFilling
- Pork bellyFilling
- ShrimpFilling
- Yellow onionAromatic
- Bean sproutsFilling
- Mustard greensAccompaniment
- MintAccompaniment
- CilantroAccompaniment
- Vietnamese perillaAccompaniment · Optional
- Prepared Vietnamese dipping sauceAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
- Neutral cooking oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Rice flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual52 explicitly substitutes all wheat flour with rice flour for traditional-style branch; complete actual alternative, not author-invented recipe. No Wheat absence claim.
- Turmeric: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual102 batter and124 warm mung-bean soaking branch,131 thinning consolidated; no separate water from unnamed pork-boiling medium invented.
- Coconut cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual103 cream branch selected, coconut milk alternate unselected.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Dried mung beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual107 dry beans, warm-water soaking actual124 branch selected.
- Pork belly: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Shrimp: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Actual109 shrimp confirms Crustaceans, species unprovided.
- Yellow onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bean sprouts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual111 generic sprouts, exact seed species not forced from separate dry mung bean ingredient.
- Mustard greens: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Mustard source-confirmed. Actual113 cai xanh mustard greens, named mustard plant confirms Mustard ingredient identity; lettuce substitute71 unselected.
- Mint: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cilantro: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Vietnamese perilla (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual116 tia to optional, broader perilla candidate; no forced Japanese shiso cultivar.
- Prepared Vietnamese dipping sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual118 prepared sauce, paragraph88/73 positively fish-sauce dipping identity; full component formula unexpanded, no separate Duncan apple-cider recipe union.
- Neutral cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual119/129/133 pan frying and edge brushing, botanical medium unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Southern Vietnamese Cuisine
- Vietnamese Australian cuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Vietnamese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Southern Vietnamese cuisineCatalogue link pending review
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