10 good tips to boil natural green rice cakes to celebrate Tet

Boiled rice cakes seem to be very simple but to make the cakes after boiling and very green, not everyone can do. The following tips are the steps and tips to help you get a delicious pot of banh chung to celebrate Tet.

1. Soak glutinous rice water. Ash water is also an alkaline medium so after cooking, sticky rice is cooked in a very ripe and very clear bread. This method can also be used effectively with banh chung.

Ash water is also an alkaline medium so after cooking, sticky rice is cooked in a very ripe and very clear bread.

2. Using the leaves (galangal) to crush the water mixed with sticky rice just before wrapping the cake, so the cake will have a green color from the shell to the kernel and a very special aroma.

3. Soak the sticky rice in pineapple juice for 1 to 3 hours or squeeze lemon into sticky rice before wrapping, so the cake will ripen more quickly. But it should not be soaked for long because the sticky rice can be broken into powder.

4. When cooking, add some NaHCO ₃ pepper, as well as boil vegetables for some pepper to keep green.

5. The purchase must be washed one by one through many water, then wipe each leaf with a clean towel. Before wrapping the cake, you must blanch the leaves through boiling water to kill all the germs. The number of leaves of each cake must also see the weather, the cool weather is 6 leaves, and the hot weather must use 10 leaves to better preserve.

6. Glutinous rice must be treated thoroughly through dozens of water until the water is fresh. Doing so will wash away the dust and dirt that adheres to the sticky grain, the cake will be clear and long.

7. When cooking the cake, use the excess leaves to insert the bottom of the pot and around the inside of the pot so that the cake does not burn, in addition the number of leaves also makes the cake greener.

When cooking half of the time, you have to remove the cake and wash it in cold water.

8. When cooking half of the time, it is necessary to remove the cake and wash it in cold water, replace the whole pot of water and cook it again, the cake will be green, crisp and better.

9. For the banh chung, when cooking is finished, there is a process of pressing water , and when the cake is removed, it is also washed through cold water and rolled by hand.

10. Use tole pots to cook cakes. The tole pot also creates an alkaline environment to keep the cake green.

Note when preparing raw materials for banh chung

Choose green dong leaves

The first trick to help you boil the green and delicious banh chung is the way to choose a leaf. Should choose leaves not too big, not too small. Leaf leaves are not too young but not too old. Look shiny, dark green, small stalk. When choosing the best, please wash it, dry the air. Do not dry too much, just drain it.

Leaf when starting to pack banh chung, you should dry the dong leaves!

Choose sticky rice

Glutinous rice to pack delicious banh chung must be the kind of sticky rice or yellow flower sticky rice, polished and evenly spiced. Rice soaked for about 10 - 12 hours with cold water then whirled, drained and whisked with white salt to moderate the taste. The characteristic of banh chung is the salty taste of sticky rice, the aromatic flavor of the bean, the aromatic and greasy taste of meat . so it is necessary to pay attention to the adequate amount of salt with the amount of rice and evenly with beans and meat.

If you want sticky rice to be green, and more fragrant, you can use small sticky rice leaves to get green juice to soak sticky rice. Sticky rice glutinous rice leaves will become very fragrant and beautiful green when wrapped in banh chung!

Choose green beans

Green bean is the kernel near the center of the banh chung (meat part). You can buy beans that have been peeled or not split. If you buy bean sprouts, you just need to soak them, but parked yet, you need to soak them for peeling and clean the beans. Although it must be peeled and take time, but one of the secrets to wrapping delicious banh chung is that you should use green beans with the whole shell to have the aroma, delicious and hygienic. The golden color of bean seeds symbolizes a new and prosperous new year.

Lat forced

Choose the burns from 70-90 cm long, scrape the outer skin, then split each piece evenly. It is advisable to soak the pipe before splitting it to make it soft, and when it is split into a piece, it will be dried to make sure it is firm, soft and easy to tie.

Dried onions and meat

To pack delicious banh chung, it is indispensable to have dried meat and onions. Peeled onions, peeled and peeled. Self-ground pepper or bought at the market. The bread is pork with both lean and fat (usually bacon). Meat fat to make greasy cakes like the health of homeowners, pink red lean bring much joy for the new year. The meat is sliced ​​in large pieces, marinated with enough spices, sprinkled with a little pepper to add a passionate flavor and especially after the cooked cake will have a slightly aromatic and spicy flavor.

One thing to note is that you should not give fish sauce to marinate with banh chung, because to put the sauce in the meat, it will make the package not finished for long.

Good luck!