this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
202 points (99.5% liked)
Cooking
11061 readers
714 users here now
Welcome to LW Cooking, a community for discussing all things related to food and cooking! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about the culinary arts. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!
Taken a nice photo of your creation? We highly encourage sharing with our friends over at !foodporn@lemmy.world.
Posts in this community must be food/cooking related. Recipes for dishes you've made and post picture of are encouraged but are not a requirement. Posts of food you are enjoyed or just think like food are welcomed as well.
Posts can optionally be tagged. We would like the use and number of tags to grow organically. Feel free to use a tag that isn't listed if you think it makes sense to do so. We encourage using tags to help organize and make browsing easier, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
TAGS:
- [QUESTION] - For questions about cooking.
- [RECIPE} - Share a recipe of your own, or link one.
- [MEME] - Food related meme or funny post.
- [DISCUSSION] - For general culinary discussion.
- [TIP] - Helpful cooking tips.
FORMAT:
[QUESTION] What are your favorite spices to use in soups?
Other Cooking Communities:
!bbq@lemmy.world - Lemmy.world's home for BBQ.
!foodporn@lemmy.world - Showcasing your best culinary creations.
!sousvide@lemmy.world - All things sous vide precision cooking.
!koreanfood@lemmy.world - Celebrating Korean cuisine!
While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
- Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
- Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
- Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.
Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Never had banh mi before, so no idea how authentic this is. It's kind of a double version of it, because I couldn't decide what topics I wanted. The right half is vegan meat balls and mushrooms, the left half is fried tofu and calamari.
It doesn't look very authentic but it's within tolerances. Even a bad banh mi is still a good sandwich.
Carrots, onions, cilantro, mayo/butter on a baguette. That's the essential base line. The savory components can be highly variable. Maybe some hot or sweet peppers.
The greens are cilantro and mint. The sauce is a chili mayonnaise. The vegetables are carrots and radish marinated in a sauce made from lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, and chili. The bread is a baguette. My girlfriend can't eat onions, so those are out of the picture.
In my defense, I did try to follow recipes that claimed to be authentic. I just never had the real thing, so I can't tell.
Looks good but none of the bahn mi places I go to use mayo. Sub some pate instead of mayo. And add fresh sliced jalepeno instead of the chili to get your heat. I'm sure it's tasty.
I would love to know what the pate is like, it was the main thing I didn't know how to substitute with a non-meat alternative.
Hard to describe. It's like the texture of hummus with the viscosity of peanut butter, and it tastes like duck liver.
Maybe an olive purée would get a similar texture with the salty/savory pungency. It wouldn't be typical, but it might work as a substitute.
I would swap the mint for thai basil, but I'm kind of a fool for basil. Oh, and maybe add some extremely thinly sliced jalapenos, with the seeds and core removed, though this is up to your spice tolerance. It definitely looks the part, though. Hope it's tasty!
I think next time I will do just that (and choose flatter toppings to leave some space, the ones I used made the sandwich huge already).
Still looking great. I should probably make some myself. I have all the ingredients and just need to make the bread.
I’m not an expert, but looks good to me! I would load up some more on the carrots and radishes and tone back on the herbs.
Looks absolutely top notch!