January 18, 2010 - 5:37pm
Banh Mi bread?
Do you have a recipe and have you ever made banh mi bread?
I believe it's half rice flour and half wheat flour but beyond that I haven't found a recipe that people say is really a good one.
Love the banh mi sandwiches very much and want to make some.
Thanks!
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While I haven't tried her Banh Mi baguette recipe yet, everything I've made from Andrea Nguyen's sites have been very successful. She puts a lot of work into her recipe development. Note, she specifically mentions she prefers not to use rice flour and explains why.
http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2007/05/vietnamese_bagu.html
Check out her Asian Dumpling Tips site too!
http://www.asiandumplingtips.com/
Robyn
We serve bahn mi sandwiches at the deli/bakery where I bake. Originally we experimented with vietnamese baguettes (good luck finding recipes). I can tell you that a 50% rice flour mix is probably too much - we settled on 30%. Rice flour, if you've ever used it, takes a long, long time to accept water, so you will need to extend your normal mixing times or else you're going to find yourself with a 'grainy' dough (almost like there's sand in it).
Ultimately we ended up ditching the vietnamese baguette in favor of poolish baguettes which are much more flavorable.
Good luck!
This is one more on my long to do list but here is a link for a Bank Mi recipe:
http://myfoodaffair.blogspot.com/2008/07/mini-vietnamese-baguette.html
I found another recipe on a French blog but it is written in French.
Good luck.
Don