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Vietnamese-Style Fried Egg Baguette

A crisp baguette stuffed with fried eggs, quick-pickled carrot, cucumber, and cilantro.

Vietnamese-Style Fried Egg Baguette, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
25 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.02

Ingredients

  • 1 french baguette
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1/2 lb carrots
  • 1 cucumber
  • 4 tbsp white distilled vinegar
  • 1/4 cup granulated white sugar
  • 4 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro
  • 1 jalapeño peppers(optional)
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

  1. Cut the carrots into matchsticks and toss them with the vinegar, sugar, and a pinch of salt. Leave them 15 minutes, stirring once, until they soften and turn tangy.

  2. Cut the baguette into four lengths and split each one, leaving a hinge.

  3. Fry the eggs in the oil over medium-high heat until the edges are crisp and the yolks still soft.

  4. Spread mayonnaise inside the bread and add a few drops of soy sauce.

  5. Layer in the eggs, drained pickled carrot, sliced cucumber, cilantro, and chile.

  6. Press each sandwich closed firmly so the yolk runs into the bread.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$40.07$10.0210 of 10 ingredients
United Kingdom£20.37£5.0910 of 10 ingredients
Australia$50.81$12.7010 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$65.38$16.3510 of 10 ingredients
Greece25,93 €6,48 €10 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٦٧٢٫٤٥ ج.م.‏‏١٦٨٫١١ ج.م.‏10 of 10 ingredients
Germany33,72 €8,43 €10 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$652.77$163.1910 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 39,57€ 9,8910 of 10 ingredients
Canada$54.94$13.749 of 10 ingredients
Spain17,16 €4,29 €9 of 10 ingredients

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