Banh Tet_Tet specific offerings of the South

Banh Tet a Tet celebration characteristic of the Southern and South Central. From the village clearing up, the first inhabitants of the southern region known packages of rice cakes with rice tét popular thanks to worship heaven and earth, money.
Cake made from glutinous rice, depending on the produce of each region that have different wheels, folds into different colored products formed its own unique flavor.
The South has dozens of tet cakes like banana pie, green bean's, green bean pie with lard or duck eggs with salt ...
Banh Tet represents the prosperous life after life. Tet comes, spring, gifts offered money, heaven and earth is still the most popular original tet cake package from glutinous rice, green beans, pork.
Materials: (a blow-wheel package tet)
- Nep good plasticity: 400gr- Meat fat: 300gr- Green Beans: 200gr- Coconut milk- Spices: garlic, pepper, fish sauce, salt- Banana leaf- Cord slices (wire rush)
Method:
Soaking the rice with salt, drain. Wait for the rice dry medium, medium soft, coconut water, stir so that rice absorbed hand. Pickled green beans, cooked shell offers clean, add salt.
When cooked beans, for little garlic juice, taking baseball as bean paste, then took a stick about 22cm long; meat lard washed, cut fat has the same length, wedge a little sugar, salt and pepper. Washed fresh banana leaves, and drain. Cooked in coconut cream.
Banana leaf has two sides, white chalk on green and glossy surface. Presentation on the surface of banana leaves, leaf surface it leaves piling up on the other side about three or four layers; poured onto the leaves of rice, rice in a circle. Place the beans, and fat in the middle of the bread into a cylindrical package. Cord slices of force along the length of the front wheel, the horizontal wire winding.
Enter the two-wheel hits a pair to the pot. Cake where to go, pour approximately invasion there. Cooking with wood wheels within 12 hours. Sometimes further processing of cold water. When saving, open two-wheel to drain, then package the same will be kept for longer.
Tet, the Tet attacks cakes offered money, land is the southern sky down to entertain them. Today, tet cake is also used in the December anniversary.
Frozen cake is cut into disks described above, served with pickled white radish is made, dried carrots dipped in sugar, fish sauce, garlic, peppers. /.
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