Trứng Hấp (Vietnamese Egg Meatloaf).
Ground beef with vermicelli, dry mushrooms, onions, garlic and egg baked until golden brown.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time1 hour hr 15 minutes mins
Course: Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Keyword: Easy and simple way to transform cooked ground meat into Vietnamese egg meatloaf.
Servings: 8
- 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
- 1½ tsp fish sauce
- 8 eggs
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.
Add in the chopped onions, fish sauce and cook for another 5 minutes.
Transfer the mixture to an oven safe dish. Then add the coarsely chopped mushroom and vermicelli.
Mix well to combine all ingredients.
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.
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.
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.
Place it in the oven to bake at 350oF and bake until done.