Preparation

30 minutes
Cooking

35 minutes
Difficulty

Medium

Grilled cake is one of the Tiền Giang specialties that is extremely delicious and fragrant. The cake dish has a crispy, fatty crust, and a rich filling served with delicious sweet and sour fish sauce. Let’s join TasteVN in the kitchen to make it right away!

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1 Mixing the pancake batter

2 Marinating the filling ingredients

3 Frying the pancakes

4 Making the dipping sauce

5 Final product

6 How to store cake

Ingredients for Chợ Giồng Grilled Cake Serves 4 people

Minced meat 200 gr Fried garlic 1 tablespoon Sugar 1 tablespoon Pepper 1 tablespoon Ground pepper 1 teaspoon Rice flour 6 tablespoons Corn flour 2 tablespoons Tempura flour 2 tablespoons Coconut milk 1 cup Green onions 1 tablespoon Chicken eggs 2 eggs Lemon juice 1 tablespoon Shrimp 300 gr Ingredients a little (mung beans/sprouts/peanuts)

How to choose fresh ingredients

How to choose pork

Fresh pork will have high elasticity and firmness. You can press the meat with your hand to check; if the meat does not leave a dent and does not stick to your hand, then it is good meat. Conversely, pieces of spoiled meat will not return to their normal state when pressed.
Good meat will have a bright red or dark red color, shiny, with a dry outer membrane.
If you see the meat displaying gray, brown, dark red, or light green colors, and it is slimy, do not buy it. This is a sign that the meat has spoiled.
Additionally, pork raised with lean meat enhancers will have a darker color, with red spots on the skin, and has a fishier smell compared to clean pork.

How to choose shrimp

Fresh delicious shrimp will have transparent legs that are tightly attached to the shrimp body. Do not buy shrimp with discolored, loose legs.
Pay attention to buy shrimp that have slightly curved bodies, firm flesh, intact shells, and heads tightly attached to the body.
Do not buy shrimp with spread-out, loose tails, missing tail fins, and not neatly arranged together. The shrimp may have been caught a long time ago and soaked in preservatives.

How to make Chợ Giồng pancake

1

Mixing the pancake batter

Put into a bowl 6 tablespoons of rice flour, 2 tablespoons of cornstarch, 2 tablespoons of crispy frying flour, 1 cup of coconut milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of green onion, and stir well until the mixture is smooth.
2

Marinating the filling ingredients

Shrimp, after buying, you cut off the head, wash it thoroughly and let it drain. Put 200g of minced meat that you have prepared into a bowl and marinate with spices including 1 tablespoon of fried garlic, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of pepper, 1 tablespoon of ground black pepper, mix well for the ingredients to absorb the spices evenly.
3

Frying the pancakes

Place a pot on the stove, to ensure the pancakes cook evenly and are crispier, you should fry them in deep oil, fill the pot with oil up to half. Turn on the heat to heat the oil and place a ladle into the oil to heat it up.

When the oil is hot, you take 2 tablespoons of batter into the ladle and spread it evenly, then add in order a layer of mung beans, a layer of minced meat, and a layer of bean sprouts. After that, cover with a layer of batter and place the shrimp on top.

Next, place the ladle into the pot of oil for about 2 – 3 minutes, at this time the pancake will naturally detach from the ladle. Fry the pancake over medium heat until golden brown and cooked. Do the same until all the remaining batter and filling are used up.
4

Making the dipping sauce

You prepare a bowl with 5 tablespoons of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and a little minced garlic and chili. Mix well for the ingredients to blend together; you can adjust the seasoning to suit your taste.

See more: Simple recipe for making sweet and sour fish sauce for dipping boiled meat
5

Final product

The fried Bánh giá has a golden-brown crispy shell, creamy texture, and the filling is sweet and fragrant with mung beans and bean sprouts. The dish is even more delicious when served with fresh herbs and sweet and sour fish sauce.