Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf)
Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf)

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A tasty grilled dish to make for your next summer cook-out. This fresh and flavorful dish features betel leaves, a tender green leaf, wrapped around a. One of the most popular food in Vietnam.

Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bò lá lốt (meat wrapped in betel leaf) using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf):
  1. Make ready Meats
  2. Get 500 g ground beef
  3. Take 100 g ground pork (fatty is OK)
  4. Make ready Optional: Substitute with 600g ground meat substitute, like Beyond Beef
  5. Take Seasonings
  6. Make ready 1 shallot, minced
  7. Make ready 3 tbsp lemongrass, minced and pounded
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp minced garlic
  9. Prepare 3 tbsp crushed roasted peanuts
  10. Make ready 4 tsp soy sauce (Maggi seasoning) or 1 tbsp fish sauce
  11. Get 1 tsp salt
  12. Make ready 1 tsp five spice powder
  13. Get 1 tsp sugar
  14. Take 1 tsp mushroom powder (chicken bouillon could work)
  15. Make ready Optional: 1/2 tbsp Vietnamese spiced liquor (rượu mai quế lộ)
  16. Prepare Garnish
  17. Make ready Crushed roasted peanuts
  18. Get Scallions sautéed in a bit of oil (or nuked in the microwave)
  19. Get Mixed fish sauce or vegan substitute

We love cooking beef and pork inside the betel leaf, a recipe called "Bo La Lop" which we learned from a local Vietnamese family. Detach betel leaves from the stems, rinse each leaf gently and individually and pat dry. To roll, place the leaf on a flat surface with the shiny darker side facing down and the stem pointing out. Thịt bò nướng lá lốt or bò lá lốt is one of my favorites but there are variations of flavors.

Steps to make Bò lá lốt (Meat wrapped in betel leaf):
  1. Mix your meat with seasonings thoroughly, and then roll approximately 3-4 teaspoons of the mixture in each betel leaf.
  2. In a preheated air-fryer, cook in small batches at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 minutes or until meat mixture is cooked. Be sure to coat the leaves in a thin layer of oil, if you did not roll them tightly enough. Five minute usually works for vegan mixtures.
  3. In an oven preheated to 375, baking them on a rack (or skewered on a stick), you may need 10 minutes.
  4. On a pan on medium heat with a bit of vegetable or canola oil, you can pan fry them to completion as well. The picture of the end-result has half of the rolls pan-fried, and the other half in an air-fryer.

The basis is beef (thịt bò), variations of spices, fish sauce (nước mấm) and wrapped in betel leaf (lá lốt) which is then grilled (nướng). Eating good food is key to cooking good food, so I have been looking for the. Common Culinary Name: Wild Betal Leaf. Botanical Family & Name: Piperaceae, Piper Sarmentosum or Betle. Culinary Uses: Leaves are wrapped around small, slender ground beef rolls, then grilled (Bò Lá Lốt).

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