Vietnamese

Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns)

Name: Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 4 frozen banh bao (Vietnamese steamed pork buns); 4 cups water

Nguyen Thu Huong @bep_nha_huong

Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 frozen banh bao (Vietnamese steamed pork buns)
4 cups water

How to cook it

Set a steamer over boiling water and line the basket with parchment so the buns do not stick.
Steam the buns straight from the freezer, spaced apart so they can puff, until hot right through to the pork, egg and Chinese sausage filling, 12 to 15 minutes.
Let them rest 1 minute before eating so the filling is not scalding.
Families buy banh bao from the morning cart or keep a bag of a trusted brand in the freezer for school days; folding them from scratch is a weekend baking project. Many brands use milk in the dough and fish sauce in the filling, so read the packet.

Serve it with

A Vietnamese breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Mo Hanh (Scallion Oil)
  
  5 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns) carries dairy, gluten, eggs, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 5 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs)
Gluten	Yes	Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
Soy	Yes	Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
Fish	Yes	Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 380 kcal
Protein: 14 g
Carbs: 52 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 9 g
Sodium: 620 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Banh Bao (Steamed Pork and Egg Buns) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.