How to make delicious, beautiful and meaningful Tet cakes at home

Banh Tet is a dish with the main ingredients from glutinous rice, green beans with a sweet filling from bananas, peanuts or a salty filling from fatty meat. Different from the square appearance of banh chung in the north, banh tet in the south is wrapped in a solid cylinder.

Banh Tet means symbolizing all things, heaven and earth, reminding people of the fruits of farmers’ labor and the abundance that nature bestows on mankind. Besides, the creation of word cake helps on behalf of the giver to send meaningful messages hidden inside the cake layer, to the recipient.

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So, this New Year, instead of preparing elaborate couplets, ornate wishes, you can prepare a few word cakes to send love to your family instead.

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Ingredients for making Tet cakes

Ingredients for making Tet cakes

• 1kg green beans (soaked 4-6 hours)
• 3kg sticky rice with yellow flowers (soaked for 8 hours)
• 600ml coconut milk
• 400ml pineapple juice
• 750g sugar
• 800ml Camellia leaf juice
• 500g banana leaves (dried for 12 hours)
• 2 bundles of twine
• Other seasonings: Cooking oil, salt

How to make tet cake

Step 1: The part of glutinous rice is divided into 2 parts : 2kg of glutinous rice soaked with pandan leaf juice and 400ml of coconut milk, the rest soaked with Camellia leaf juice and 200ml coconut milk. Soak the rice in the juice for 1 hour.

Then pour out the glutinous rice and stir-fry until the glutinous rice seeds expand.

Step 2: Mix green beans with sugar, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 liter of filtered water. Then bring to boil until the beans are soft, then remove to a plate.

Step 3: Put the cooking oil in a pot to boil, then put the green beans in the slug until the beans are hunted, no longer wet, then turn off the heat.

Step 4: Prepare a tray lined with foil to take out the green beans from the pot, put in it, wait for the beans to cool.

Step 5: Roll the foil in a circle, to shape the green beans into a cylinder. Then use a knife to cut into small pieces about 1cm thick.

Step 6: Use a wooden knife to cut the green beans into the text you want. You can pre-print the text on paper or use a piece of letter-shaped plastic, put it on green beans as a template to cut along for easy.

Step 7: Use a wooden knife to create a hole in the sticky rice circle (also about 1cm thick), corresponding to the word green bean. Then put the word mung bean inside the blank space of sticky rice.

Step 8: Spread a layer of pandan sticky rice on the surface of the banana leaf (cut in a square of size 20x20cm), then put the letters in , align and in the alphabetical order you want.

Step 9: Cleverly use banana leaves, roll the sticky rice and circle the letters . Remember to use a moderate force in this section, make sure the rice and the text stick together, but don’t get distorted.

Step 10: Fold the two ends of the banana leaf and roll it tightly, to keep the cake sealed, not in the water when boiling. Use twine to secure the cake.

Step 11: Put a layer of banana leaves on the bottom of the pot, then arrange the banh tet. Fill the cake with water and cook continuously for 4 to 6 hours . During the cooking process, remember to add water continuously so that the cake does not dry out or burn.

Finished product

Banh Tet is fragrant with the smell of glutinous rice, the sweet smell of pandan leaves and the fleshy flavor of green beans . The crust is flexible but not mushy, while the mung bean paste is shaped like a unique letter . This will be an irresistible delicacy with your family.

Banh tet can be eaten with pickles, palanquin and spring rolls , or used as a breakfast on New Year’s Day, all of which are good suggestions.

How to preserve Tet cakes for a long time?

You should boil the banana leaf to disinfect the cake , so the cake will be kept longer.

After removing the cake from the pot, do not immediately put the cake in the refrigerator , but find a dry place, without sunlight to dry until the cake is completely dry.

Banh Tet, if kept in a dry location, away from the sun, can be kept for 2-5 days without being damaged.

If you want to preserve banh tet for 1 week or more , you must store it in the refrigerator, when you want to eat it, take it out to fry or re-steam.

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Hopefully, thanks to this article, the word Tet cake will appear in your family’s Tet tray this year.

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