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Trứng Hấp (Vietnamese Egg Meatloaf).

Ground beef with vermicelli, dry mushrooms, onions, garlic and egg baked until golden brown.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 15 minutes
Course: Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Keyword: Easy and simple way to transform cooked ground meat into Vietnamese egg meatloaf.
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 7 grams dried mushrooms soaked.
  • 11 grams dried vermicelli soaked.
  • ½ white onion chopped.
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp granulated garlic powder
  • tsp fish sauce
  • 8 eggs

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 350oF

Preparing the ingredients for assembling:

  • Soak the dry mushroom in water for approximately 8 minutes.
  • Soak the vermicelli in water for approximately 8 minutes.
  • After soaking, discard the water and coarsely chop the mushroom and vermicelli.

Putting together the meat loaf:

  • Brown the ground beef and add to it the salt, pepper, granulated garlic powder.
    Browning of the ground beef.
  • Add in the chopped onions, fish sauce and cook for another 5 minutes.
    Adding of the chopped onions to the ground beef.
  • Transfer the mixture to an oven safe dish. Then add the coarsely chopped mushroom and vermicelli.
    Coarsely chopped mushroom and vermicelli.
  • Mix well to combine all ingredients.
    Ground meat, cut vermicelli and mushroom.
  • In a separate bowl, crack 6 eggs. Season the eggs with a pinch of salt, pepper, ½ teaspoon of fish sauce and beat the eggs until all ingredients are combined.
    Six eggs for the Vietnamese meatloaf.
  • Add the egg mixture to the meat mixture and mix well and make sure the egg and meat mixture is evenly distributed in the dish.
    Egg mixture combined with meat mixture.
  • Beat 2 more additional eggs and pour it right on top of the meat & egg mixture. This will give the dish a nice golden brown color when baked.
    Vietnamese meatloaf with a side of rice.
  • Place it in the oven to bake at 350oF and bake until done.