Every spring comes, around the streets are always full of red peach blossom and yellow of the apricot blossom. In the house, everything is beautifully decorated to welcome the spring, and one of the indispensable items on the family worship as well as the tray of rice on the festival is the Chung cake. The only type of cake with a long history in traditional Vietnamese cuisine is repeatedly mentioned. Chung cake has a special place in the consciousness of the Vietnamese community and its origins in legend relating to Prince Lang Lieu in the sixth Hung King. The above mentioned want to remind the descendants of the tradition of the nation; Is an explanation of the meaning as well as the origin of Chung cake in culture, while emphasizing the importance of rice and nature in wet rice culture. From the really long time ago, Chung cake has become Hanoi traditional food as well as in other parts of Vietnam.
Although it is difficult for you to join a street food tour in Hanoi or a Vietnam cooking class tour and have the chance to make a Chung cake you can search for information from the travel agency to be able to buy or join a tour of Chung cake.
Chung cake ingredients
Leaves to wrap the cake: usually use phrynium, the leaves are chosen big, equally, and not torn. However, depending on the locality, ethnicity, conditions and circumstances, the leaves may be the banana leaf or even almond leaf.Bamboo string: can be soaked in salt water or steamed before softening the cake.
Sticky rice: Sticky rice usually uses rice to harvest crops. This crop has large seeds, round, flexible and newly harvested will be more fragrant than other crops. Many people choose glutinous rice or sliced glutinous rice, which is not really that sophisticated because it is a mass-produced cake.
Green beans: parked is often meticulously selected, preferably the type of park in the hills in Midlands of Vietnam. After harvesting, it is necessary to dry the sunlight thoroughly, to remove all trash, dust, granules, graded seeds and then close to the jar, a jar of the best.
Meat: usually pork, selected pigs are completely raised by manual methods.
Spices: pepper to marinate meat. Salt mixed with rice, green beans, and marinated meat. In addition, some of the less common spices are also used as cardamom, stigmata essential oil is often used in marijuana seasoning cake in Hanoi old, although nowhere rare enough to add this seasoning.
When the finished cakes are placed in a large saucepan and baked on the stove, baking time usually ranges from 10 to 12 hours, depending on the type of rice.
Today, although the industrialization and modernization are developing with the level of dizzy, the package of rice cake on Tet festival is still a lot of family values. The moment the whole family gathering on the tray of rice on a New Year’s Day with a plate of Green Banh Chung has been and will always be in the minds of many Vietnamese people.