Banh Mi bread?

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cognitivefun on 18 Jan 2010 at 17:37

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!

 

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

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wally on 19 Jan 2010 at 13:58

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!