This time, when there are only a few days left until the traditional Tet, it’s also a time people who are living at wetland villages in Southwest toghether prepare glutinous rice, leaves of banana, coconut… for wrapping “Tet” cake or sticky rice cake. Learn more Tet Cake – The cake for TET holiday in Vietnam.
The gredients required include: dried coconut, glutinous rice, banana, grease dried leaves of banana and some strings. Place glutinous rice at the centre of leaf, spread them along the leaf.
To scrape meat of coconut, wring to take juice (coconut milk) and cook with glutinous rice.
To crush glutinous rice thoroughly, then cook them with coconut milk to make aromatic fat.
To soak green bean until soft, remove covers, wash and drain, then cook. Fried cooked bean with onion, cooking oil or grease, put spice such as salt, pepper, glutamate.
To knead cooked bean (that was prepared above step) into a thick, log-like cylindrical shape for centre of cake.
Everything are already for wrapping cake
People shared each stages to make good Tet cakes.
To place banana leaves horizontally and vertically that are interspersed.
To put green bean in the middle of the glutinous rice.
To roll them in banana leaf into a thick, log-like cylindrical shape. The cakes are green because they was cooked with leaves of pineapple that is grinded.
