The delicious and unforgettable traditional Tet cakes of the Central people

Vietnamese people in general and people in the Central region in particular are starting to rush into the preparation phase for the upcoming traditional New Year. It is easy to choose and buy full and eye-catching trays of fruit cakes to decorate and serve guests visiting during Tet, most people in the Central region still choose to make their own cakes. unique from wild ingredients.

Seeing Tet is seeing traditional cake trays in the Central region.

However, the processing to create these fancy and delicious cakes is not simple at all. From raw materials, they put into it the meticulousness, ingenuity, culinary quintessence of generations, to create cakes for the national New Year that anyone who enjoys it will never forget. I hope every Tet holiday comes.

Each type of cake is a combination of different ingredients, a unique way of processing, to create its own flavor that cannot be confused.

1. Tet cake

The first type of cake mentioned is definitely banh tet, a type of cake that when you come to the Central region every Tet to spring, you can easily find it in every family, every meal, every day. Banh Tet is made from the main ingredient is sticky glutinous rice, combined with pureed green beans or peeled peanuts as the filling.

The image of cooking Tet cake is familiar at the end of the year in the Central region

Banh Tet in Central Vietnam has a diameter of 4-7cm and a length of 25-35cm depending on the preferences of the packer. Banh Tet is usually cooked for 8-10 hours until the cake is completely soft, then drained, hung up, it can be preserved for 7-10 days. When eating, people will use banh tet to cut banh tet into thin pieces and then dip it with fish sauce, eat with papaya root, or deep-fried and then eat with grilled rice paper, each way of eating brings a delicious taste. characteristic of banh tet.

2. Banh Tet ash

Similar to banh tet, however, ash cake requires more ingredients and is much more complicated to prepare. To make ash cake, people here choose the best dried sesame (sesame) stalks, fresh green twigs, sage leaves and other edible and flavorful leaves that are burned into fine ashes.

The unique tet cakes can only be found on Tet holiday in the Central region.

Then put in water to form the ash juice of the leaves, use a cloth to settle the ash and obtain the ash water, then soak the glutinous rice in it for about 30 minutes and then take it out, drain the water, pack it into cakes. After cooking, Tet cake has a special smoothness, flexibility and aroma, often enjoyed by people with white granulated sugar. Banh Tet ash is very good for the digestive system, stomach, and is very effective in treating stomach pain. Some areas still pack bean paste with ash tet, even more strange to eat.

Banh Tet ash in each province is a little different.

3. Nest cake

Banh To is a special Tet cake that is only available in Quang Nam, and every Quang child looks forward to enjoying a slice of fried nest cake and sipping a sip of tea on New Year’s Day to spring with the family. To make delicious nest cakes is not easy, the maker must prepare a large bowl, banana leaves (for the crust), glutinous rice flour, powdered sugar, roasted sesame (sesame), fresh ginger, cooking oil. .

Banh To – a traditional cake of Quang origin on the occasion of the Lunar New Year

The cake is made very picky, in return for a whole month without preservatives. The best way to enjoy the cake is to slice it up and then fry it up and… enjoy. The cake has a characteristic sweetness of honey and a spicy taste of ginger. The finished cake is inherently very hard, but when fried, it is both soft and fatty, with a very unique taste.

4. Bun cake

Talking about the traditional Tet cake of Quang Ngai people, it is talking about Bun cake. Buns are made from jams such as tomato, pineapple, coconut, squash into small pieces or shredded and a mixture of roasted glutinous rice flour and sugar. Bun cake is made quite sophisticated, after the mixture of roasted glutinous rice flour and sugar has become a flexible mass, the maker will roll the dough into a thin layer and arrange jam on the surface of the dough. Bun cake is made up of many layers of dough and jam layers.

Slices of delicious Buns at the beginning of the year in Quang Ngai

The finished cake will be pressed into a rectangular shape, when eaten, cut into pieces about 1cm. The fragrant, sweet and sour pieces of jam are actually a must-try Tet cake of the Central region.

5. Cakes

Sweet cake is a special Tet cake of Ha Tinh, Nghe An. Visiting this place every year, you are often treated to a bowl of hot, delicious cakes. Cakes are made from glutinous rice flour, cooking oil, salt, ginger, molasses or jaggery. The cake is actually no different from the floating cake of the North, but instead of being round, the cake is shaped long. In addition, the cake also has ginger and molasses or jaggery, so it has a light yellow color, very fragrant and warm to eat.

Visit Ha Tinh – Nghe An on New Year’s Eve to enjoy a bowl of warm and sweet cakes

6. Pancakes

Banh chung is a popular cake during Tet in many central provinces. Banh cake is also known as “Central’s gato cake” with a special sweet aroma and eye-catching bright yellow color. The blooming shield cakes are displayed on plates like blooming flowers, wishing for all the peace and good things for a new year to come.

The delicious moon cakes of the Central region.

Banh mi cake made from eggs, tapioca flour, baking powder, vanilla, fluorescent powder and sugar, is quite similar to cake but harder and lasts longer. The cake can be preserved for a long time in a sealed nylon bag. When Tet comes, many people in Quang Nam buy this cake to burn incense and treat guests.

Đăng bởi: Nguyễn Đồng Khánh