How to make delicious, green, and full of Tet banh chung

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90 Minutes Processing
300 Minutes For
3-4 people

Homemade banh chung always makes people feel more delicious and secure when eating than banh chung bought at the store. If you want to know how to make and pack delicious banh chung, please refer to the following instructions right away.

Delicious banh chung ingredients

• 650g glutinous rice
• 300g pork belly
• 400g peeled green beans
• Banana leaves or dong leaves
• Seasoning: Salt, sugar, pepper

Good tip
What is rice cake made of? To make banh chung, you use glutinous rice to make the cake fragrant. You should choose glutinous rice with yellow flowers, shiny and even grains.

Ingredients for delicious banh chung

How to make banh chung

Step 1Prepare the cake filling and wrapping leaves

Buy banana leaves or dong leaves, wash them.

Soak sticky rice, green beans without skin before packing for about 4 hours or overnight , you can soak glutinous rice with banana leaves or pandan leaves to make the sticky rice delicious and green.

Good tip
The way to soak rice in banh chung to make banh chung fragrant, you need to soak glutinous rice overnight, or at least 4 hours.

Prepare the cake filling and wrapping leaves

Step 2Process materials

After soaking, pour the glutinous rice into a basket and drain, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of salt and mix well. Green beans also pour into the basket, add salt and pepper and mix well.

Pork washed and cut into pieces. The way to marinate meat wrapped in banh chung is very simple , you just need to marinate it with salt, sugar, and pepper in a moderate amount. In addition, you can refer to how to make delicious banh chung

Good tip:
How to cook banh chung: If you want to use cooked beans (green beans) to pack banh chung, you just need to take the amount of soaked beans and cook until the beans are cooked. Then you take out the bean paste and make the cake as a normal process

Process materials

Step 3Package of cake

Wrap cake with mold

In order for the square cake to look beautiful, you should prepare square cake molds to fix the shape of the cake.

Hot Tip: Depending on the size of the cake you want, there will be many different types of molds, the standard size of the banh chung mold is usually 12 x 12cm.

Mold preparation

You arrange about 4 pieces of banana leaves in the mold, each leaf you fold horizontally to create a straight line , place the banana leaf in this line and arrange it in the 4 corners of the frame , then put sticky rice, green beans, pork in as shown in the picture below. below.

Spread the sticky rice at 4 corners to prevent the cake from being convex and concave, add green beans, then add meat, then add a layer of green beans, and finally cover with sticky rice.

Place the leaves in the mold and add the filling

Then you fold the banana leaf, use one hand to hold the folded mouth and then lift the mold up, tie 2 loops in the shape of a cross . Do not tie the string too tightly, to avoid the cake blooming not beautiful and delicious.

Buns of banh chung

Hand-made banh chung

First, face down the dark green side of a dong leaf vertically. Next, face up the dark green side of the remaining 2 dong leaves and place them horizontally, so that the 4 cards are perpendicular to each other.

Fold dong leaves

You put in order 1 layer of glutinous rice, 1 layer of green beans, 1 layer of pork, 1 layer of green beans and finally 1 layer of sticky rice.

Add filling to banh chung

First, you keep the 2 edges of the leaf lying on the longitudinal side of the cake and then fold and roll the leaves so that the sticky part is fixed.

The next step is to hold the folded edge with one hand, with the other hand, you fold one side of the leaf horizontally.

Then you stand the cake up, hold it tight and pat the cake down on the table so that the filling is evenly spread. Next, fold the leaves on top, put the cake on this side down on the table and do the same with the other side.

Package of cake

Take 2 twine and tie them parallel to each other to keep the cake tight and not loose. Next, you tie the next 2 pieces perpendicular to the two above.

Clinch

Step 4Boiled banh chung

How to boil banh chung, you do the following:

First put the wrapped banh chung in the pot, pour water over the cake, boil the small size cake for about 5 hours , it will cook, but the large cake will take longer to cook.

Always prepare a pot of boiling water next to it so that when the water in the pot runs out, you can add water in time, do not pour cold water into the pot. When boiling is half of the time, you should open the lid of the pot, turn the surface of the cake so that the cake is cooked more evenly.

Good tip
How to cure raw banh chung , you should first open the cake shell, then wrap the cake, be careful not to pack it tightly, then steam or boil the cake to cook it.

How to boil banh chung

Step 5Finished product

After the cake is cooked, take it out of the pot, put the cake in cold water, soak for about 20 minutes , then arrange the cake on the table, use heavy weight to press the juice out to make the cake dry and keep it for a long time. about 5 to 8 hours .

Then you can enjoy it!

Finished product

Enjoy

Enjoy

See more: Summary of 12 delicious dishes on Tet holiday in the North that are easy to make and delicious

During the time of boiling banh chung, you need to note the following as how to boil banh chung leaves green and keep the delicious taste:

• Before placing banh chung into the pot, you need to put a layer of dong leaf stalks underneath so that the cake does not burn and stick to the bottom of the pot.
• Arrange the cake into neat and tight layers to keep the cake in place, in case the boiling water has a push causing the cake to be pushed and it will break.
• After the pot of banh chung has boiled, reduce the heat (for a charcoal or wood stove) or reduce the temperature (if boiled with a pressure cooker or by electricity ). Only let the fire simmer during the process of boiling banh chung .

Delicious banh chung, beautifully packaged, you can confidently place it on an antique tray to worship your ancestors or give it to relatives and friends. In addition, if you do not use all of it, you can store the cake in the refrigerator compartment. When using, just put the cake in the microwave to warm it up! You can also see more ways to choose ready-made banh chung for delicious and safe Tet

>> See more: Origin and meaning of banh chung on Tet holiday

Making and wrapping banh chung seems to be very difficult, but when you really start doing it, you will find it very simple. If you have a lot of experience in making and wrapping Chung cake, don’t hesitate to share it with Cfis.edu.vn!

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