Puffed bacon crackers

This is one of the easiest ways to make your own variant of prawn crackers. Prawn crackers are made from tapioca flour and these are made from rice but they produce the same light and crispy result. In Vietnam, you can often see people making rice paper at the side of the road. They make a paste from rice flour and water, spread it out on woven mats (you can see the structure on the rice paper), and leave it to dry in the sun. What we do is moisten the rice sheets with egg white, sprinkle them with a flavouring, and then leave them to dry again. They can then be deep-fried so that you have crackers with the flavour of your choice. You can make large quantities in one go as the uncooked crackers can be kept for a long time.

Recipe for 20 pieces.