Chung cake is an indispensable dish in traditional Vietnamese New Year. However, not everyone can wrap banh chung, delicious and long broken.
Material:
Leaves: should choose leafy leaves (leaves are not neither young nor old)
Transparent plastic wrap, not wrapped
Sticky rice, golden rice, large rice seeds, new fragrant
green, fresh, yellow, beautiful, cooked and crushed.
The three pieces are lean, fat, even and thick. You should choose thin paper, do not choose too much lean to eat when eating
Spices: Salt, pepper
Making:
- Prepare green beans, meat, leaves, rice
Step 1: Green pudding in 2 hours. Wash and scoop out the bad grains and scoop with 1 tablespoon of salt, then add to the steamer, steamed.
Ripe, using the spoon to make it smooth, mix it with a little pepper. Then, grate the beans into equal rounds.
Step 2: Soften the rice for 2 hours (just soak 2 hours to soften the rice, do not soak it long enough to make it sour and rice).
After soaking softly treat the rice several times to clean and pick up the bad seeds. Then pack the rice cake with 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of seasoning rice.
Step 3: Clean leaves, if leaves are not clean, the cake will quickly break. Wipe dry with a clean towel. Then cut the live leaf (cut the leaves do not leave, but lined up when boiled condensed). Note, when cutting live leaves, you do not cut too deep will go to the leaves, to tear the leaves.
Step 4: Thai sliced meat, about 2cm thick, about 5cm - 6cm long and then salt, pepper to marinate meat.
- Pack the cake
How to package rice cake without mold
Step 1: When wrapping, place 4 leaves perpendicular as shown in the picture, 2 leaves below face down (2 leaves below so that when wrapped back, the right side will be outside to make the cake more beautiful) , 2 leaves on the right side of the face (2 leaves on top to do so to remove the bread, not stick).
Step 2: Put about a bowl of rice in the center of the leaf.
Step 3: Take a half of the green pea, lightly press the green portion down, then place a piece of meat in the middle of the green portion, then half the green part (also lightly pressed down) on the meat .
Pour the green beans around the meat. Place on the rice.
Step 4: Add a layer of rice above the kernel and use hand leveling so that the rice covered the kernel.
Step 5: Use your hands to turn the dong on the right and left. The left leg folded (folded inside to hide the leaves).
Then, you fold the top of the bottom leaf up. Squeeze the sides of the top of the cake, folding the left side of the leaves to the square.
Step 6: To make a rectangular cake, you need 4 sheets. Forcing the first two strips parallel to each other to keep the gear tight, the leaf does not come out. The two strings perpendicular to the first two strings.
The next step is to do the breadcrumbs down the table to make sure the cake is firm. Try to shake the cake, if you still hear the rice inside the cake is not packaged.
How to pack cake in mold
Placing leaves: Same as folding for hand wrapping! Lay the left side of the two leaves to overlap each other like the picture, then you put the green side of another leaf on the two leaves folded. Add a green face leaf to fold, the leaves overlap and inverse the mold in the front.
Start wrapping the package as hand wrapped, then place it on top.
Then, you put the mold in the mold, open the leaf and lift the mold in, you have completed the leaf folding into a rectangular shape then.
The next step in packing the banh chung (glutinious rice cake), you need to package the rice cake. First you pour a bowl of glutinous rice in front, spread evenly throughout the mold, flat. Then you give a bunch of green beans, spread evenly.
Next is a piece of meat marinated in the middle, then a bowl of green beans. Finally, you pour a bowl of glutinous rice on the top and then pack the left leaves neatly, evenly baked.
After neatly folding the leaves, you press the excess leaves, the other hand gently lift the cake out and you tie thin.
You can tie 2, 3, or 4 strips, just tight tight but tight, do not make the pie crinkle that needs to be symmetrical to the cake added square.
- Boil the cake
Cut the freshly cut leaves at the bottom of the pot, then fold the cake up. Add water to flood the entire cake and then boil the fire until boiling, reduce the fire.
Then, every 1 hour to check the water level. If the water level is reduced, additional boiling water must be used. Cook for 8-10 hours to remove the cake.
After picking the cake, wash it with a damp cloth on the outside of the cake. Find a cool place in the house, fold the cake and put a board up. Next, add water basins or heavy objects on the board to make sure the cake is firm.
When the cake is completely cut the cake to burn incense on the pedestal on New Year. Wish you success when wrapping cake!
