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    Vietnamese Rice Paper Pizza (Vegan)

    By Emese Maczko on 01/30/2023 - May contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure.

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    This is a meatless alternative to the popular Vietnamese street food, Bánh Tráng Nướng. Thin rice paper sheets topped with vegan ground pork and spring onions mixed in a vegan eggy mixture, then fried until the rice paper pizza is crispy and the bottom turns golden brown. Serve with mayonnaise or sweet chili sauce and enjoy!

    Black plate with opaque rice paper topped with a yellow batter and sprinkled with brown crumbles and green spring onion rings. White and red sauces are drizzled on top.

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    If you are looking for more vegan Vietnamese recipes, we recommend trying the quintessential fresh Vietnamese spring rolls. For more delicious inspiration, check out these rice paper recipes.

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    1. What is a Vietnamese pizza?
    2. Ingredients
    3. How to make vegan Vietnamese pizza?
    4. Variations
    5. FAQs and substitutions
    6. More vegan Asian recipes
    7. Vietnamese Pizza {Vegan} Bánh Tráng Nướng

    What is a Vietnamese pizza?

    Bánh Tráng Nướng (which translates as grilled rice paper) is popular street food in Vietnam, especially in Saigon and Da Lat that uses rice paper wrappers as the pizza base. It is topped then with various vegetables but mostly green onions, dried pork floss, or dried shrimp mixed with quail eggs or chicken eggs. Finally, it is either grilled over charcoal or pan-fried until the wrappers get crispy and the egg is cooked. There are endless variations as you can imagine.

    A hand is holding a folded rice paper pizza with yellow and brown spots

    Ingredients

    You may think that it is impossible to make it vegan since the main ingredients are eggs and other animal-related products. However, there are great meatless alternatives that you can use to create a delicious vegan Vietnamese pizza at home. See the recipe card for quantities.

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    • Rice paper wrappers
    • Vegan dried pork using TVP (textured vegetable protein), vegetable broth, onion, soy sauce, sugar, and vegetable oil
    • Vegan egg mixture using cashew nuts, nutritional yeast, turmeric, black salt, garlic, and dairy-free milk
    • Toppings: spring onion and mayonnaise
    White plate with 2 folded rice paper pizzas topped with brown crumbles, green onion rings, and drizzled with white and red sauces

    How to make vegan Vietnamese pizza?

    Vegan eggy mixture

    There are many alternatives you can choose from like tofu, chickpea flour batter, JustEgg, or other egg replacers. The most important thing to think about is that the “batter” has to be moist enough to dampen the rice paper a bit. Otherwise, you may end up with rice paper chips and not crispy rice paper pizza. That is why we opted for a liquid cashew nut-based mixture.

    1. Boil water in a kettle and soak cashews in hot water for 5 minutes. Alternatively, you can soak them overnight or cook them in boiling water on a stovetop for 5 minutes.
    2. Take a high-power blender like Vitamix and add all ingredients: soaked cashews, unsweetened dairy-free milk (we used homemade cashew milk), garlic, nutritional yeast, black salt, sea salt, turmeric, and black pepper.
    3. Blend it until smooth. If you only have a hand-held immersion blender, expect it to be less smooth, or use cashew butter instead of soaked cashews.
    2 photo collage of a blender containing for cashew nuts then milk and other spices and ingredients

    Vegan ground pork

    The classic recipes usually use pre-cooked ground pork or pork floss (also known as rousong or ruốc in Vietnamese), which is a dried pork product seasoned with soy sauce and spices.

    To make it vegan the best ingredient to use is textured vegetable protein. It is a dehydrated product made of 100% soybean flour. The texture of which resembles ground pork really well. So what do you need to make vegan pork floss?

    1. Soak TVP in hot vegetable broth for 10 minutes.
    2. Drain if they are soft.
    3. Squeeze them as much as you can with your hands, by using a sieve or a cheesecloth, or even a nut milk bag. They may be hot, so watch out for your hands before touching them.
    4. Preheat a frying pan over medium heat. Add vegetable oil.
    5. Add sliced onion and saute them from approx. 2-3 minutes.
    6. Add TVP and saute them for another 2 minutes.
    7. Add soy sauce or tamari and stir well.
    8. Add sugar and stir again. Cook them for another 2 minutes.
    White frying pan with ground meat-like crumbles

    Rice paper pizza

    Now the best and last step, let’s fry some meatless banh trang nuong. Here is how to do it:

    1. Take a non-stick frying pan and preheat it over low heat. We recommend flat-bottom pans like cast-iron skillets, but not grill pans or wok.
    2. Place one dry rice paper sheet in it and quickly spread approx. 2-3 tablespoons of the vegan eggy mixture over it with the back of a spoon. It has to cover almost the entire sheet thinly.
    3. Spread 2-3 tablespoons of precooked TVP aka “pork” and chopped scallion over it.
    4. Increase the heat over medium-high. If the rice paper wrapper starts to lift off, use a wooden spatula to gently push it back.
    5. Fry it for approx. 5-6 minutes. You know it is ready if the bottom is crispy and starting to get golden brown. And there you go. Delicious, crispy, savory but a little bit sweet rice paper pizza.
    White frying pan with opaque rice paper topped with a yellow batter and sprinkled with brown crumbles and green spring onion rings

    Variations

    You can choose other toppings as well. Since rice paper sheets can quickly get brown, we recommend using pre-cooked ingredients or those ones which can be eaten raw. Here are a couple of ideas for you to mix and match, but let us know in the comments which are your favorites.

    • canned sweet corn or green peas
    • canned or pre-cooked beans and lentils
    • onion, shallots, scallions, or anything similar
    • shredded vegan cheese
    • roasted or pan-fried oyster mushrooms (they make perfect meaty add-ins. We use them to make vegan shredded chicken, vegan gyro meat, or vegan pulled pork)
    • other vegan meat alternatives
    • chili flakes, sweet chili sauce, sriracha, or anything similar if you like it hot
    A hand is holding a folded rice paper pizza with yellow and brown spots

    FAQs and substitutions

    How do you store it?

    It is best to serve it warm. The pizza will lose its crispiness as time goes by. It was yummy the next day but a bit more on the chewy side. You can keep it in the fridge for 2-3 days tops. We recommend reheating it in a pan and not in a microwave.

    Can you make them ahead of time?

    You can prepare the vegan eggy batter and the vegan pork substitute ahead of 2-3 days without any problem. We recommend assembling and frying it right before serving it. It is not freezer-friendly.

    White plate with a folded rice paper pizza topped with brown crumbles, green onion rings, and drizzled with white and red sauces

    This Vietnamese Rice Paper Pizza recipe is meat-free, egg-free, and dairy-free. It is suitable for vegan and vegetarian diets. It is not soy-free since TVP is a soy-based product. It is WFPB-friendly (whole foods plant-based) if you fry TVP in veggie broth instead of oil.

    More vegan Asian recipes

    • Chinese BBQ Tofu Burger
    • Rice Paper Spring Rolls
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    • Pad Woon Sen (Thai Glass Noodles Stir Fry)
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    Black plate with opaque rice paper topped with a yellow batter and sprinkled with brown crumbles and green spring onion rings. White and red sauces are drizzled on top.

    Vietnamese Pizza {Vegan} Bánh Tráng Nướng

    Emese Maczko
    This is a meatless alternative to the popular Vietnamese street food, Bánh Tráng Nướng. Thin rice paper sheets topped with vegan ground pork and spring onions mixed in a vegan eggy mixture, then fried until the rice paper pizza is crispy and the bottom turns golden brown. Serve with mayonnaise or sweet chili sauce and enjoy!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 10 minutes mins
    Frying time per pizza 5 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Main Course
    Servings 8 pizzas
    Calories 327kcal

    Equipment

    • Non-stick frying pan (10.5 inch / 26 cm)

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 8 Rice paper sheets
    • 8 Spring onion

    Vegan eggy mixture

    • 1 + ⅓ cup Cashew nuts
    • 1 + ½ cup Dairy-free milk (homemade cashew milk)
    • 2 cloves Garlic
    • 2 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
    • ½ tsp Black salt
    • ½ tsp Turmeric
    • 1 tsp Salt

    Vegan ground pork

    • 2 cup TVP (Soy) -> What is TVP?
    • 2 cup Veggie broth
    • 2 Onion (small)
    • 2 Tbsp Olive oil
    • ½ tsp Soy sauce -> gluten-free substitutes
    • 2 tsp Cane sugar
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    Instructions
     

    Vegan eggy mixture

    • Boil water in a kettle and soak cashews in hot water for 5 minutes. Alternatively, you can soak them overnight or cook them in boiling water on a stovetop for 5 minutes.
    • Take a high-power blender like Vitamix and add all ingredients: soaked cashews, unsweetened dairy-free milk (we used homemade cashew milk), garlic, nutritional yeast, black salt, sea salt, turmeric, and black pepper.
    • Blend it until smooth. If you only have a hand-held immersion blender, expect it to be less smooth, or use cashew butter instead of soaked cashews.

    Vegan ground pork

    • The classic recipes usually use pre-cooked ground pork or pork floss (also known as rousong or ruốc in Vietnamese), which is a dried pork product seasoned with soy sauce and spices.
    • To make it vegan the best ingredient to use is textured vegetable protein. It is a dehydrated product made of 100% soybean flour. The texture of which resembles ground pork really well. So what do you need to make vegan pork floss?
    • Soak TVP in hot vegetable broth for 10 minutes.
    • Drain if they are soft.
    • Squeeze them as much as you can with your hands, by using a sieve or a cheesecloth, or even a nut milk bag. They may be hot, so watch out for your hands before touching them.
    • Preheat a frying pan over medium heat. Add vegetable oil.
    • Add sliced onion and saute them from approx. 2-3 minutes.
    • Add TVP and saute them for another 2 minutes.
    • Add soy sauce or tamari and stir well.
    • Add sugar and stir again. Cook them for another 2 minutes.

    Rice paper pizza

    • Now the best and last step, let’s fry some meatless banh trang nuong. Here is how to do it:
    • Take a non-stick frying pan and preheat it over low heat. We recommend flat-bottom pans like cast-iron skillets, but not grill pans or wok.
    • Place one dry rice paper sheet in it and quickly spread approx. 2-3 tablespoons of the vegan eggy mixture over it with the back of a spoon. It has to cover almost the entire sheet thinly.
    • Spread 2-3 tablespoons of precooked TVP aka “pork” and chopped spring onion over it.
    • Increase the heat over medium-high. If the rice paper wrapper starts to lift off, use a wooden spatula to gently push it back.
    • Fry it for approx. 5-6 minutes. You know it is ready if the bottom is crispy and starting to get golden brown. And there you go. Delicious, crispy, savory but a little bit sweet rice paper pizza.
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    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Vietnamese Pizza {Vegan} Bánh Tráng Nướng
    Amount Per Serving (1 pizza)
    Calories 327 Calories from Fat 126
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 14g22%
    Saturated Fat 2g13%
    Polyunsaturated Fat 3g
    Monounsaturated Fat 8g
    Cholesterol 2mg1%
    Sodium 596mg26%
    Potassium 338mg10%
    Carbohydrates 31g10%
    Fiber 6g25%
    Sugar 8g9%
    Protein 20g40%
    Vitamin A 297IU6%
    Vitamin C 8mg10%
    Calcium 170mg17%
    Iron 5mg28%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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