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Vietnamese Rice Wrapped in Lotus Leaf

By: Cong Le

Ingredients : Serves 2-4

1 tablespoon Cooking oil
200 g Shrimps, cooked, peeled and diced
100 g Carrots, diced and boiled until soft
4 Dried Chinese mushrooms, soaked to soften then drained and diced
100 g Ham, diced
50 g Dried lotus seed, bitter embryos removed and boiled until soft
200 g Rice, washed and cooked
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Ground white pepper
1/4 teaspoon Sugar
1/4 teaspoon Chicken seasoning powder
1 Lotus leaf

Preparation:

  • Heat oil in a wok and stir fry shrimps, carrots, mushrooms, ham and lotus seeds for 5 minutes.

  • Add cooked rice and stir fry for another 10 minutes.

  • Mix in salt, pepper, sugar and chicken seasoning powder.

  • Scoop rice into a bowl and turn rice over onto lotus leaf. Bring 2 opposite edges of lotus leaf up to enclose rice, then tuck the other 2 edges underneath parcel.

  • Place in a steamer to cook for 10 minutes.

  • Carefully transfer lotus leaf parcel onto a plate and cut open to reveal rice. Serve hot.





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