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Bánh Mì (Vietnamese Sandwich)

Seasoned steamed pork for the Vietnamese sandwich.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time2 hours
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Servings: 5

Equipment

  • Steamer

Ingredients

Ingredients for the cooking the steam pork:

  • 1 pound pork shoulder Boston butt roast or pork belly
  • 1 tbsp chicken powder
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp cooking wine
  • ½ tsp pepper

Ingredients for assembling the sandwich:

  • Vietnamese ham or chả lụa
  • Pickled daikon & radish
  • Sliced cucumbers
  • Magi
  • Cilantro
  • Steamed pork
  • Spreadable butter
  • Toasted baguette

Instructions

Instructions for preparing the pork shoulder:

  • I always start out by washing the meat. Sprinkle salt on the pork, then gently rub the salt into the pork. Rinse the salt off with warm water then pat the pork dry with paper towels.
  • Score both sides of the meat by cutting ⅛ to ¼ inch deep into the meat. Set the meat aside and prepare the marinade.
    Scoring the meat

Instructions for the marinade:

  • Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
    Marinade for pork for Jambon
  • Then pour the mixture over the meat and gently rub mixture into the meat. Make sure both sides of the meat is covered in marinade.
    pouring marinade over meat
  • Place the meat in a container. Cover the container with plastic wrap then place in the fridge to marinade over night.

Instructions for cooking the pork:

  • Fill a pot with water. Place a steamer basket on top. Make sure the water does not touch the steamer basket.
  • Wrap the meat in parchment paper.
  • Then wrap aluminum foil over the parchment paper.
    pork wrapped in aluminum foil
  • Place the meat in the steamer basket, close the lid and let the meat steam for 2 hours.
    pork in steamer
  • After the 2 hours, remove the meat from the steamer basket and remove the parchment paper and aluminum foil.

Instructions for assembling the sandwich:

  • Place the baguette in the oven for 5 minutes to toast it.
  • Cut the baguette lengthwise.
  • Spread butter on one side of the baguette then add a couple dashes of Magi on top of the butter.
  • On the other side of the baguette, spread a desired amount of pate.
  • Place pieces of the steamed pork, thinly sliced pieces of Vietnamese ham or chả in the baguette.
  • Then add thinly sliced cucumbers, pickled daikon & radish, cilantro on top of the meat...and there you have it, a homemade bánh mì (Vietnamese sandwich).