Vietnamese Vegetable Baguette from One Good Dish by David Tanis

Ingredients

• A few lettuce leaves
• 6 basil leaves, torn
• 2 tablespoons slivered scallions
• ½ teaspoon finely chopped serrano or fresh Thai chile
• ½ cup fresh bean sprouts, rinsed
• Salt
• 1 fresh baguette
• A few sprigs cilantro
• 1 firm ripe avocado, thickly sliced
• 8 mint leaves, torn
• Juice of ½ lime
• ½ teaspoon brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon fish sauce
• ½ cup julienned peeled daikon
• ½ cup julienned peeled carrots
• 2 hard-cooked eggs, quartered
• ½ cup julienned peeled cucumber