Bo Bia, a Vietnamese street food gem, features rice paper rolls filled with Chinese sausage, eggs, jicama, carrots, and herbs. Each bite offers a perfect balance of sweet, salty, and crunchy flavors, complemented by a hoisin-peanut dipping sauce. It's a refreshing and delightful treat, perfect as an appetizer or light meal.
Ingredients
2chinese sausage packages, slice in 3, lengthwise
¼cupdried shrimp, soaked in warm water for 15 mins then mince
avocado oil, or any neutral oil
16eggs, beaten
1onion, sliced
3cupsjicama, julienned
3cupscarrots, julienned
1tspkosher salt
1Tbspgarlic powder
1Tbspmushroom powder
rice paper
red leaf lettuce
rau ram, or any herb that you like such as basil, cilantro, mint leaves
5persian cucumbers, thinly sliced lengthwise
⅓cuppeanuts, crushed
Instructions
Pan fry the Chinese sausages over medium low heat. You don’t need to add cooking oil to the pan as the Chinese sausage will release oil once you start cooking them.
Cook the sausages, occasionally flipping them over until they slightly brown, close to 10 minutes.
Place on paper towel lined plate to soak up the oil. Let it cool then cut them into ¼ inch slices. Put aside.
Soak the dried shrimp in warm water for at least 15 minutes.
Drain and mince it finely with a small electric chopper. Set aside.
In a bowl, beat the eggs together and add a pinch of salt and black pepper.
In a non-stick pan, over medium heat, add a little oil and fry the egg mix, on medium high, ¼ cup at a time to create a thin crepe. Pile each egg crepe on a cutting board.
Once the egg crepes cool, slice them thinly, one inch long julienned style. Set aside.
In a pan, over medium high heat, add 2 tablespoons of oil and the sliced onions. Cook the onions for a couple of minutes until they are soft.
Add jicama and carrots and season with 1 tsp salt along with garlic powder, mushroom powder and dried shrimp. Sauté and continue to mix until softened, probably 5 minutes or so. Set aside.
Now that you have all your ingredients laid out, it’s time to start rolling! Wet the rice paper and add one ingredient at a time.
Top with lettuce, rau ram, a cucumber slice and a sprinkle of crushed peanuts. Roll tightly.