How to make a unique and delicious Ha Giang specialty banh chung

Chung hump cake is considered a specialty dish that is loved by many people because the flexible cake mixed with the rich filling has made many foodies excited. Therefore, today let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to learn how to make delicious Ha Giang hunchback banh chung.

Characteristics and origin of Chung Hump cake

Characteristics and origin of Chung Hump cake

Ha Giang humpback cake has long become a famous dish known by many people. This is considered a traditional cake originating from the Red Dao people in Yen Bai, Ha Giang and Lao Cao.

Ha Giang rice cake is well-known for the following characteristics:

• Unlike other types of banh chung, banh chung hump is quite small in size, plump and shaped like a jar.
• A special feature of the cake is that the leaf part has only 1 layer of wrapping instead of 4, 5 layers of wrapping leaves like the traditional banh chung of the Kinh people.
• The crust is made from upland sticky rice, soaked with galangal leaf juice, so the sticky part is flexible and delicious. As for the filling , it is made from delicious green beans mixed with the pork belly, which is carefully seasoned to taste.

How to make Chung Hump Cake

Prepare
240 Minutes Processing
300 Minutes For
10 peoples

Prepare ingredients to make Chung Hump cake

• 1kg sticky rice
• 800g pork belly
• 700g green beans with shell
• Galangal leaves, dong leaves, groundnut wire.
• Seasoning: Salt, pepper

Good tip
– For glutinous rice cakes, you should choose sticky, even and firm seeds. At the same time, when you smell it, you will hear a faint aroma and not hear a musty smell.
– With bacon, you should choose meat with equal proportions of lean, fat, bright red color, press with your hand to feel the elasticity and not be concave. These are considered meat selection tips drawn from the experience of many housewives.
Regarding green beans , you should choose intact, shiny, bright yellow green beans, avoid choosing broken, dull or black spots on the beans.
– The leaves should be large, intact, without thrush, dark green in color and elliptical in shape. Should choose leaves with good toughness, not brittle or easy to break.

How to make Chung Hump Cake

Step 1Process materials

Process materials

After buying glutinous rice and green beans, you should wash them with water 3-4 times . After washing, you soak in water for about 4-5 hours . With galangal leaves, you wash, cut into small pieces and put them in a blender to get galangal leaf juice.

Bacon, you wash it with salt, then cut it into bite-sized pieces with a thickness of about 1cm. Then marinate with ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper. With the dong leaves, you wash and filter all the hard leaves , while the peanuts are soaked in water for about 10 minutes to soften for easy wrapping.

Step 2Mix the color of sticky rice and marinate the beans

Mix the color of sticky rice and marinate the beans

You immediately add the galangal leaf juice to the picked part of the sticky rice and mix well, let it sit for about 10 minutes for the sticky part to absorb the color. As for green beans, after picking, you mix with ½ teaspoon of salt to add more flavor.

Step 3Buns of banh chung

Buns of banh chung

You flip the backs of 2 intact dong leaves and then stack the ends and tails on top of each other . Next, you put 1 tablespoon of sticky rice in the middle of the leaves and add ½ teaspoon of green beans, 1 piece of bacon on top of the sticky part. Then, you continue to add 1/2 teaspoon of green beans to the meat and finally 1 tablespoon of sticky rice.

When you have given the sticky rice and the filling, you grab the two sides of the leaf and fold it tightly, then you grab the top of the dong leaf and flatten it to shape the filling inside. Then, you raise the cake and pat it evenly so that the filling is compressed and you do the same with the rest of the top.

At this point you will see that the middle part of the hump is standard. After you have shaped the leaves, you use peanut wire to wrap around the cake and need to tighten the wire to shape the cake.

Step 4Cooking banh chung

Cooking banh chung

You put all the wrapped cake into a large pot and cover with water. You need to cover the lid and cook on low heat for about 4 hours until the cake is done.

Finished product

Ha Giang rice dumpling cake

Delicious and attractive banh chung with soft, flexible sticky rice mixed with rich and greasy filling of green beans and bacon,… All have made a delicious and round traditional cake.

The meaning of the name Chung Hump cake
When wrapping dong leaves, the shape of the cake is cylindrical and slightly crooked; The same is the shape of a woman in the highlands of Ha Giang wearing a basket to the fields every day.

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