Shallot krupuk

One of the simplest ways of making a kind of krupuk from scratch. Normally, krupuk is made with tapioca flour; This recipe uses rice but gets the same crisp and airy result. All over Vietnam, you can see these sheets of rice paper being made on the street. They start as a porridge of rice flour and water, and are then spread this out on woven mats (this is where the structure you see on the rice paper comes from) and dried in the sun. Here, we take the sheets, moisten them a second time with egg white, dust them with a flavour, and dry them again. After frying, you have a crispy krupuk with the flavour of your choice. You can make large quantities of this recipe at a time, because once dried they keep for a very long time.

Makes 20 portions.