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🍽️ Bánh Mi Sandwiches with Meatballs, Ginger Mayo & Sweet Potato Fries

610 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• Sweet potatoes 2 pcs.
• Organic limes 1 pcs.
• Shallots 1 pcs.
• Ground meat, mixed 600 g
• Oil 2.5 tbsp
• Salt pinch
• Cornstarch 1 tbsp
• Cucumbers 1 pcs.
• Carrots 1 pcs.
• Vinegar 2 tbsp
• Sugar 1 tbsp
• Ginger, fresh 5 g
• Mayonnaise 5 tbsp
• Cream cheese, plain 5 tbsp
• Baguette 2 pcs.
• Cilantro, fresh 10 g
• Tabasco 1 tbsp

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
2. 2. Peel the sweet potatoes.
3. 3. Cut them into sticks about 1 centimeter thick.
4. 4. Rinse the sticks briefly under cold water in a sieve.
5. 5. Then dry them on kitchen paper.
6. 6. Halve the lime.
7. 7. Squeeze the lime juice.
8. 8. Split the shallot.
9. 9. Peel the shallot.
10. 10. Finely chop the shallot.
11. 11. Place the minced meat in a bowl.
12. 12. Add the chopped shallots to the minced meat.
13. 13. Add 1 tablespoon of lime juice.
14. 14. Add 1 tablespoon of oil.
15. 15. Season the mixture with salt.
16. 16. Mix everything well.
17. 17. Set the meat mixture aside.
18. 18. Place the sweet potato sticks in a clean bowl.
19. 19. Sprinkle the sweet potatoes with starch.
20. 20. Toss the sweet potatoes with the starch.
21. 21. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the sweet potatoes.
22. 22. Season the sweet potatoes with salt.
23. 23. Spread the sweet potatoes on a baking sheet.
24. 24. Make sure the sticks do not touch each other.
25. 25. Place the baking sheet in the oven.
26. 26. Bake the sweet potatoes for about 20 minutes.
27. 27. Turn the sweet potatoes after 10 minutes.
28. 28. Wash the cucumber.
29. 29. Wash the carrot.
30. 30. Cut off the ends of the cucumber.
31. 31. Cut off the ends of the carrot.
32. 32. Peel the carrot.
33. 33. Halve the carrot crosswise.
34. 34. Cut the cucumber lengthwise into thin strips.
35. 35. Cut the carrot lengthwise into thin strips.
36. 36. Clean the bowl.
37. 37. Add vinegar to the bowl.
38. 38. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar to the bowl.
39. 39. Stir the mixture until the sugar is dissolved.
40. 40. Add the vegetable strips to the vinegar-sugar mixture.
41. 41. Let the vegetables marinate sweet and sour.
42. 42. Peel the ginger.
43. 43. Finely chop the ginger.
44. 44. Place the ginger in a bowl.
45. 45. Add mayonnaise to the ginger.
46. 46. Add cream cheese to the ginger.
47. 47. Add 1 tablespoon of lime juice.
48. 48. Mix the mayonnaise ingredients well.
49. 49. Shape 12 elongated balls from the meat mixture.
50. 50. Make sure the balls are about 1 centimeter thick.
51. 51. Moisten the baguettes slightly with your hands.
52. 52. Place the baguettes in the oven.
53. 53. Bake the baguettes for approx. 6 minutes.
54. 54. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan.
55. 55. Set the heat to high.
56. 56. Fry the meatballs in the pan.
57. 57. Fry the meatballs for about 2 minutes.
58. 58. Fry the meatballs golden brown on both sides.
59. 59. Wash the coriander.
60. 60. Shake the coriander dry.
61. 61. Cut the baked baguettes on one side.
62. 62. Do not cut all the way through the baguettes.
63. 63. Spread the baguettes with mayonnaise.
64. 64. Spread the baguettes with Tabasco to taste.
65. 65. Fill the baguettes with the meatballs.
66. 66. Distribute the marinated vegetables on the sandwiches.
67. 67. Distribute the coriander on the sandwiches.
68. 68. Plate the Bánh Mi sandwiches.
69. 69. Plate the sweet potato fries.
70. 70. Serve the sandwiches with the remaining mayonnaise.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 610
• Protein: 30 g · Fett/Fat: 28 g · Carbs: 65 g