For Vietnamese culture in Tet Holiday, jam is one kind of traditional food that indispensable on the New Year. Taking the New Year’s greetings, asking the health, drinking hot tea together and tasting candy jelly that has become a cultural beauty of Vietnamese life. Jam attracts from elderly to children by its colorful and sweet scent. Today, the demand for the “delicious” and the “beautiful” in the eyes of consumers are increasing. So, “Jams homemade” has long become popular in every traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year. To eat like a local, let join Vietnam food tours for the best experience in Vietnamese culinary culture!
Coconut Jam
Coconut jam is the oldest, the most traditional jam of Vietnamese. Over many changes, traditionally coconut jam still keeps tasting just slightly sweet, moderate fat, chewy and crunchy, very interesting. Coconut is the most favorite kind of jam of Vietnamese people. Each person has own way in enjoying, so the taste and the color in making jam are very varieties and separated. Traditional coconut jam has a monotonous white color, but through many years, it has several natural colors like chocolate coconut jam, milk coffee, milk.
Although the same is a coconut jam, however, each place makes in a different style. In order to enjoy delicious and special coconut jam in Vietnam, let try it when you visit Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi because one of the Hanoi traditional food in the Tet Holiday is also Coconut jam.
Ginger Jam
Light yellow ginger jam, spicy always appears Vietnamese’s Tet holiday. In the beginning days of spring, the warmth of ginger works to keep the body warm, benign, very good for health.
Kumquat jam
Making cranberry jam is a meticulous process but very exciting for the housewife, selecting fresh cranberry fruits on twigs, to peel, seed and heat until they turn into jam. The cranberry jam jar finished with a clear golden color of crystallized sugar, look just want to eat immediately. Kinds of cranberry jam have various tastes to suitable with each person: dry cranberry jam, wet cranberry jam, cranberry jam attach pee cranberry jam is bitter and sweet, so it has positive effects on digestion, cough, and some other diseases.
Bean jam
Each kind of bean has its own interesting shape, so you can make your own type of jam with your own favorite kind of bean. It is easy to make bean jam. Boiling beans with water and then mixing with sugar. The meaning of beans jam is the success for everyone. Some of the kinds bean jam: bush bean jam, peanut jam, and lotus seed jam.
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