Banh Mi

Banh Mi

This is a stunning recipe. I guarantee you will all love my version of the infamous Vietnamese sandwich, Banh Mi. I created this for our trip to St John’s Island with our usual gang of friends. Lets knock up something different for the trip, I thought. And that is exactly how this recipe came in in to being.

This made up two big loaves of delicious Banh Mi. This fed quite a few on the day, but was soon gone. It was  cracker, and I don’t mind saying that myself. Here we go, to make this beauty of a dish you will need;

• 2 crusty loaves;
• 1 think sliced Chinese cabbage;
• 2 tablespoons of finely chopped garlic;
• 1/2 a pack of salted butter;
• Sea salt & cracked black pepper;
• 1 pork knuckle cut in to bite sized pieces (I grabbed this from Cold Storage);
• 2 packets of duck rillette;
• 2 packets of roughly chopped coriander; and
• Fish sauce.

• In a big pan throw in the butter, garlic, salt, pepper and cabbage with a little oil too;
• Cook that slowly until the cabbage starts to wilt and then take that off the heat;
• Cut the loaves lengthways, but not all the way through;
• Open them up and then grill both sides until nice and crispy;
• Mix the pork meat with the duck rillette;
• Add in the cabbage mixture;
• Add in the coriander;
• Mix it all through;
• Spoon that mixture equally in to the loaves;
• Drizzle the fish sauce over the top;
• Cut in to bite sized pieces and serve.

So there you have it. My version of Banh Mi. I think you’ll agree that it looks damned good. Believe me the taste was on par. So very easy to make, so very exceptional outcomes. You really should give this one a go. It is an absolutely belter – ENJOY!!!

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Brian Kennett

Father of 3. All my kids are mixed, with English-Japanese, and English-Filipino - a recipe in the making there. I have been cooking since a small lad, as guided by my Nan and my Mum - gradually that morphed through exposure to Thai cooking from a lovely lady called Da in Margate. I used to hang out in her restaurant and watch the techniques. So the 1+1= greater than 2 occurred - Mum/Nan/Da - off I went in to the world of Asian cuisine. Moving to Asia in early 2000's clearly has brought that on somewhat - we travel continually, and eat locally and therefore have exposure to more and more new things. I have lived my dream and written a cook book whilst here, an amazing experience and all for a good cause too as I raised a lot of money for charity. My blog is now hopefully turning in to book number 2. Watch this space. I hope you enjoy my passion.