“Bánh khọt” (Vietnamese mini pancake)

“Bánh khọt” is a crispy Vietnamese mini pancake among the list of endless delicious Vietnamese snacks and light meals, often eaten as a snack or light meal, and consumed with stacks of green mustard leaf and herbs. Like so many other Vietnamese street food dishes, it’s great social food, something that not only tastes great but is also fun to assemble and eat.

“Bánh khọt” is made from rice flour, fried with shrimp inside, spreading with shrimp paste sauce. It’s then served with herbs and vegetables and spicy sour sweet fish sauce mixed with sliced green papaya.

In the preparation of this food, the dough is the most important step. There is a need to choose delicious rice flour while the ingredient must be fresh shrimp, medium size, peeled. The batter is made of a combination of mostly rice flour, and even leftover grains of rice, with a hint of turmeric to give them a beautiful yellow tinge, and mixed together with coconut milk to make it extra creamy and rich. The little mini pancakes are cooked in a special type of griddle. While the Vietnamese “Bánh xèo” is a mega-sized crepe, “bánh khọt” are much smaller in size. And just like “Bánh xèo”, it seems to be a Vietnamese dish that many locals are passionate about and absolutely love to eat.