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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
55 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Steamed rice cakes with shrimp and pork filling is a delicious, rustic dish familiar to most people. Today, let’s join the kitchen with TasteVN to creatively make this cake dish using rice with a very simple recipe at home!
Ingredients for Steamed Rice Cakes with Shrimp and Pork Filling Serves 4
Rice 200 gr (about 1 cup) Shrimp 300 gr (white shrimp or mud shrimp) Minced pork 300 gr Green onions 5 stalks Chili 1 piece Roasted peanuts a little Tapioca flour 3 tablespoons Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Cooking oil 4 tablespoons Annatto oil 1 tablespoon Common seasoning a little (Salt/ sugar/ pepper)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh shrimp
- Choose shrimp with a transparent shell, uniform color, and the head and body tightly attached.
- Fresh shrimp usually have their tails tightly curled, and the shell joints on the shrimp body are flexible, not loose.
- Avoid choosing shrimp that are slimy, with legs that have turned black and are no longer tightly attached to the body, or have an unusual odor.
See details: How to choose fresh, quality shrimp
How to choose fresh and delicious minced pork
- To make delicious minced meat, you should buy shoulder or belly meat that has both lean and a little fat, so when cooked, it will be soft, fatty, not dry, and not too greasy.
- If buying pre-ground meat, you should also choose meat that has both lean and fat, with fresh color, no foul smell, and no excess liquid.
- If you buy meat to grind yourself using a meat grinder, choose meat with bright pink color, and when pressed, it should be elastic and firm. The meat should not be discolored, have no foul smell, and not be mushy or leaking.
See details: How to choose delicious, fresh pork
Tools needed
Steamer pot set, blender, pan, knife, bowl, large bowl,…
How to prepare Steamed Rice Cakes with Shrimp and Pork filling
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Prepare ingredients
To eliminate the fishy smell of the shrimp, dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt in 300ml of water, soak the shrimp for about 5 – 10 minutes, then rinse thoroughly 2 – 3 times with water. After that, remove the shrimp and let it drain.
After the shrimp has been washed clean, peel off the head and shell of the shrimp, then gently cut along the back of the shrimp with a knife and slowly pull out the black thread of the shrimp to remove it, then chop finely.
How to clean shrimp without a fishy smell:
- Method 1: Sprinkle cornstarch on the shrimp. Cornstarch will help eliminate the fishy smell and absorb any dirt remaining on the shrimp, then rinse the shrimp clean.
- Method 2: Soak the shrimp in diluted saltwater or a little white wine, using your hands to gently squeeze to clean the shrimp. After that, rinse thoroughly with water before using the shrimp for cooking.
Place a pot on the stove over medium heat, add 100ml of water to boil, once the water is boiling, add the shells and heads of the shrimp and boil for about 5 minutes, then strain through a sieve to collect the shrimp broth.
Trim the green onions by removing the yellowed leaves and roots, wash them clean, then chop them finely and separate the green onion tops from the white parts. Remove the stems from the chili, wash clean, and chop finely.
Add 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch to a bowl, add 2 tablespoons of water and stir well.
Rinse the rice clean and soak it in water for 8 hours or overnight.
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Grinding rice
After soaking the rice, drain the soaking water, rinse with clean water, then put it into the blender with 200ml of water, blend until smooth, then strain through a sieve.
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Mixing the batter
In the bowl of ground rice, add 2 tablespoons of tapioca flour and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, stir well and let the batter rest for 30 minutes.
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Stir-fry filling
Place a pan on the stove over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil to the pan, and wait for the oil to heat up before adding the chopped green onion to sauté until fragrant.
When the green onion is fragrant, add the minced meat and stir-fry for 1 minute, then add the minced shrimp and stir-fry together for another 2 minutes.
Next, add the shrimp broth, 1 tablespoon of annatto oil, 4 tablespoons of water, the tapioca starch water, green onion, and 1 teaspoon of pepper to the pan, stir well until it thickens slightly, then turn off the heat.
Tip: You can buy ready-made annatto oil at supermarkets, grocery stores, or follow the recipe shared by TasteVN!
See details: How to make red annatto oil – simple, quick coloring oil, long-lasting
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Steaming the batter
You place the bowls for making steamed rice cakes into the steamer, then cover the pot and cook for about 15 minutes to heat the bowls. After that, pour in about 1/3 of the batter (you can add more batter if you like thicker cakes), then cover the steamer and steam on medium heat for about 20 minutes until the cakes are cooked.
After that, you take the cakes out and repeat the process for the remaining batter.
Tip: To know if the batter is cooked, you can poke it with a toothpick; if the toothpick comes out dry, then the cakes are ready to be taken out!
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Making the dipping sauce and finishing
Mix the sweet fish sauce to accompany the rice cakes using the following recipe: in a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 4 tablespoons of water, and 1 minced chili, then stir the mixture until dissolved, adjusting the seasoning to taste.
You add a little filling and roasted peanuts into the bowl of rice cakes, and then you can enjoy it!
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Final Product
Steamed rice cakes with shrimp and pork filling made from rice, when completed, have a very beautiful and appealing color. The cake batter is soft and chewy, combined with just right shrimp and pork filling, served with a perfectly seasoned fish sauce.
The cake will taste better if eaten hot, so let’s show off your cooking skills and treat the whole family!
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I hope that with the simple and delicious recipe for steamed rice cakes with shrimp and pork filling made from rice that TasteVN brings, you will have new choices to make your menu richer and more diverse. Get into the kitchen and try it right away, good luck!
