# 20 Minute Banh Mi Sandwich

A quick and easy Banh Mi sandwich recipe, perfect for a weeknight dinner, featuring flavorful pork meatballs.

- Total time: 20 min
- Cuisine: Vietnamese
- Category: Lunch
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 lbs 80/20 ground pork
- 10 g salt
- 25 g sugar
- 5 g black pepper
- 10 g cornstarch
- 60 g fish sauce
- 30 g grated garlic (5-6 cloves)
- 30 g grated ginger
- 60 g shallot (one large or a quarter of a red onion), finely minced
- 20 g fresh basil

## Instructions

1. Add 2 pounds of 80/20 ground pork into a large bowl.
2. Add 10g of salt to the pork.
3. Add 25g of sugar to the pork.
4. Add 5g of black pepper to the pork.
5. Add 10g of cornstarch to the pork.
6. Pour 60g of fish sauce into the bowl.
7. Grate 30g (5-6 cloves) of garlic into the bowl using a microplane.
8. Grate 30g of unpeeled ginger into the bowl.
9. Finely mince one large shallot (or a quarter of a red onion).
10. Add the 60g of minced shallots to the bowl.
11. Take 15-20g of fresh basil and finely mince it.
12. Add the minced basil to the bowl with the other ingredients.
13. Put on gloves and thoroughly mix all the ingredients together in the bowl until evenly distributed and the meat becomes tacky.
14. Scoop roughly 2 ounces of the meat mixture with a scoop.
15. Roll the scooped meat back and forth in your hands to develop more myosin protein, making it sticky and helping it hold its shape.
16. Place the formed meatball onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

## Equipment

- large bowl
- microplane
- knife
- cutting board
- 2-ounce scoop
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- gloves

## Tips

- If you don't eat pork, ground chicken thigh is a good substitute.
- Cornstarch acts as a binder, replacing breadcrumbs or egg, and adds a bouncy chew to the meatballs.
- If salt-sensitive, reduce fish sauce to 30g.
- No need to peel ginger when grating on a microplane as the skin is not fibrous or bitter and saves time.
- Developing the myosin proteins in the meat by working it helps the meatballs hold their shape.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMusWQaA/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/f16492df-bf54-41b9-9a7e-6c0f3913db72
- Extracted: 2025-10-22

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