Vietnamese Table Salad

This week I tried out a few new Asian inspired dishes. I wouldn't necessarily call them "traditional" or necessarily derived straight from any particular genre of Asian cuisine, but just inspired.

This recipe was from Sunset for Sizzling Saigon Crêpes: Bánh xèo. 

Don't worry if you can't pronounce the name. I can  not. But I sure can eat the resulting recipe. 

And how.


This recipe uses a ton of vegetables, so you can also clear out the last of the lettuce in the garden, prune back basil to normal heights, and use up any onions, jalapenos and chives you  have on hand.


Sunset says that this, in its homeland, is known as a table salad, but I'll just say that we ate it like one might eat tacos. Which is something with which we're a more bit more experienced, living in Northern California and all.

Beauty is that these aren't crepes like you get at those crepe type places where they just wrap a crepe around whatever filling (which is also good, but still), but instead like an egg-less and gluten lite omelet that's got pork, onions, chives, mushrooms and bean sprouts all in the batter and therefore INSIDE the crepe.

Very good, people. Very good.

And, since I didn't make any changes to the recipe, you can see what Sunset has to say on the subject.