On Tet holiday, if the North has a traditional square cake in the tray, people in the Southwestern region also have a delicious cake to replace, that is Tet cake. The round cakes, filled with glutinous rice, green beans, meat or sometimes banana, mixed ... are an extremely sophisticated culinary beauty of the West without any other locality. have been.
In particular, visitors visiting the weekends still enjoy the delicious taste of Western Banh Tet, and the locals guide how to make delicious Western Banh Tet like Tet . Sounds interesting, right?
Tet cake is a traditional dish of Western people
1. Introducing the traditional Tet cake of Western people
Banh tet is one of the specialties in the West that every tourist visiting the West wants to find and enjoy the typical flavor of the countryside. Tourists love the Western banh Tet not only because this dish symbolizes luck, but they also love the diverse flavors of the types of fillings hidden inside each cake.
In addition to bacon with traditional green beans, Western banh tet also has many other kinds of people to choose from such as banana or glutinous leaves.
In the North, there are banh chung, the Western people usually cook Tet cakes for Tet
Western banh Tet is really a "addictive" culinary dish because visitors can eat 2-3 different banh Tet cakes without being bored.
Banh Tet in the past was an indispensable dish in the traditional Tet days of the Southwest people. But now, when tourists are gradually familiar with the Western specialties, people here have built many establishments to process banh Tet to serve tourists from everywhere.
2. How to make banh tet is typical of Western people
According to the recommendation of the Western Banh Tet craftsman, the Western Banh Tet is delicious because the ingredients for making Banh Tet are the Western premium yellow flower sticky rice. In addition to glutinous rice, the materials for making banh tet also include: green beans, bacon, coconut water, necessary spices to make the dish more tasty. All ingredients have to be the best to give the banh tet a tough taste and a strong flavor.
Traditional Tet cake ingredients are very simple
How to make delicious Western tet cakes is not as difficult as visitors think. First, the yellow-glutinous glutinous rice after buying will be soaked in coconut milk overnight. Then, glutinous rice will be picked out, then stir-fried with coconut water for aroma.
Thus, when wrapping the cake, the fragrance of sticky rice will be absorbed evenly into the pork and green beans. The next stage is processing the green beans and bacon. With green beans, we just need to wash, then steamed and then put into a separate bowl. After the mung beans have cooled, mash them very smoothly and then roll them into long, round bars to make the fillings.
Finally, the process of processing bacon. Bacon after buying must be washed, sliced and cut to taste. Marinate sliced meat with a pinch of salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and mix well to combine spices. This meat will be marinated in about 15 - 30 minutes. After marinating, we fried pork belly with onion fat, pepper, sugar.
Artisans concentrate on making and wrapping cakes
The stages of making banh tet can be done separately, one by one, so that to make the banh Tet faster, these stages will be divided, each person will do one of the stages such as cooking rice, making rice cakes. green beans, chopped meat or wrapped cake.
3. How to package and steamed banh Tet of Western people
Seeing how the indigenous people teach how to make Western banh Tet , the most important stage to decide the flavor of banh Tet is the cake package. First, arrange the banana leaves and remove each of the ingredients such as glutinous rice, green beans, meat on the leaves in beautiful layers, then wrap the cake around and take the string tightly.
Tet cakes will then be put on the pot and steamed. The time for steaming the cake is long or quick depending on the number of cakes in the steamer (usually from 8 - 12 hours). Cook half the time, we proceed back to the cake, then cook until the cake is cooked.
Cut the cake and enjoy the taste of Western banh Tet
To enjoy the dish, visitors only need to open the outer banana skin to see the fragrant sticky rice inside.
Visitors can become great bakers after consulting all the instructions on how to make delicious Western Banh Tet like Viet Tet 's Tet . Looking at each of the soft, thick, filled fillets like that, do you want to make these delicious Western cakes yourself?
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