Vietnamese cuisine: Bánh bột lọc, prawn and bacon dumplings, the recipe.
Some time ago I bought a packet of tapioca flour and finally decided to prepare this dish that I like very much: bánh bột lọc. They are dumplings (or ravioli or dumplings) filled with prawns and bacon.

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Ingredients

* Tapioca flour: 400 grams (easily found in Asian supermarkets);
* Water: 400 ml;
* Bacon: 250 grams, chopped into small pieces;
* Shrimp: 250 grams, finely chopped;
* Red onion and garlic, chopped;
* One shallot, finely chopped;
* Chili pepper, finely chopped;
* Seasoning: salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, olive oil, cashew oil (coloring)

Preparation

To prepare the filling:
Heat a drizzle of cashew oil in a pan, then add a little chopped onion and garlic, fry until fragrant, then add the bacon and brown it. Then pour in the shrimp and sauté them together, season with spices: a little salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, wait for the shrimp to cook, then turn off the stove.

To prepare the tortelli:
Boil the water with a little oil. Then slowly pour the water into the dough, mix well and then knead by hand until you get a smooth dough.
Sprinkle a little dry flour on a flat surface, place the dough on top, knead once more. Then roll out the dough thinly, to a height of 3/4 millimeters and, with the help of a small glass, create some disks of dough. Place a little of the shrimp pulp filling in the center of the disks and fold the disk so that the dough encloses the filling inside. Use two fingers to pinch the edges of the dough together to obtain a half moon. Continue like this until you run out of ingredients.

To save time I make a lot of tortelli and then put them in the freezer to preserve them.
When I want to eat them, I just have to throw them (still frozen) into boiling water.

Prepare the sauce to dress the tortelli:
Add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce with 1 tablespoon of water, add 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1 little bit of monosodium glutamate and mix well, then add the finely chopped chili pepper. Separately, in a pan with a little olive oil, brown the shallot and chopped garlic until fragrant and then add the mixture of water and fish sauce.

At this point you just need to cook the tortelli. Throw the tortelli into plenty of boiling water. When you see that the cake dough becomes clear, and you can see the filling inside, remove them from the water and add a little olive oil so that they do not stick to each other as they cool.
Arrange the tortelli on a plate and season generously with the sauce we prepared previously.

And here are the step-by-step photos of this dish:

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