Chicken Banh Mi

Vietnamese

Chicken Banh Mi

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Chicken Banh Mi is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch. 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.

40 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Toss the julienned carrot and daikon with the rice vinegar and 1 tsp sugar and let pickle at least 20 minutes.

  2. Marinate the sliced chicken in the fish sauce and remaining brown sugar for 15 minutes.

  3. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the chicken until caramelized and cooked through, about 6 minutes.

  4. Split the baguettes and spread with mayonnaise.

  5. Fill with the chicken, drained pickles, cucumber, cilantro, and jalapeno.

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Serve it with

A Vietnamese lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Banh Mi, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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. Chicken Banh Mi carries gluten, eggs, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Chicken Banh Mi
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
Shellfish No
Eggs Yes Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
Soy No
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
540 kcal
Protein
31 g
Carbs
51 g
Fat
24 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
5 g
Sodium
1110 mg
Saturated fat
4 g

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

When to cook it

Chicken Banh Mi takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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