How to make delicious cashew nut cake, treat the whole family on New Year’s Day

Prepare
60 Minutes Processing
120 minutes For
4-6 people

Soft and flexible Tet cake, fragrant crispy cashew nuts, will definitely be a cake that makes you fall in love during this Tet holiday. Join Tnhelearning.edu.vn to learn how to make delicious cashew nut cakes and treat the whole family on New Year’s Day.

Ingredients for making fragrant cashew nut cake

• 3kg sticky rice
• 1.5kg cashews
• 500g bacon
• Banana leaves cut about 30-40 cm
• Seasoning: Salt, sugar, ground pepper

Good tip
How to choose and buy delicious sticky rice
– Delicious glutinous rice is a glutinous rice grain that is usually large in size, opaque white, shiny outside and not broken.
– Delicious sticky rice will have a characteristic, natural aroma, when tasted, it will have a slight sweet taste. Do not choose sticky rice with humus, hairy or yellow color because this is poor quality sticky rice, affecting the taste of the cake.

How to choose to buy delicious cashews
– Delicious cashews are usually of uniform size, ivory yellow color, crisp and dry, whole, not broken, seeds are firm, narrow slits.
– Avoid buying cashews that show signs of being spongy because this is a type that does not have many nutrients and is of poor quality.

How to choose to buy good bacon
– Delicious bacon is usually meat with a bright pink color, not too red nor too pale, the meat has clear lean fat, not runny, viscous.
– You choose to buy bacon with high elasticity and firmness, press it with your hand, the meat will return to its original condition. If the meat is too soft and loose, it is likely that the meat has been aged for many days.

The main ingredients for making cashew nut cake

How to make cashew nut cake

Step 1Process materials

First, you need to conduct preliminary processing of sticky rice and cashews first. Glutinous rice is washed and soaked for about 9 hours , then rinsed with water and then drained. Cashews are washed and soaked in water and about ½ teaspoon of salt for about 2 hours and then drained.

Soak and wash the sticky rice and cashews, then drain

Step 2Scent meat

You clean the bacon by scraping off the hair on the skin and then using salt to rub it hard to disinfect and disinfect. Next, rinse with water and let dry. Then you cut the meat into bite-sized lengths.

Finally, marinate the meat with a quantity of ingredients including: ⅔ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon sugar and ½ teaspoon ground pepper for about 30 minutes.

After preparing the meat, proceed to marinate the meat

Step 3Package of cake

First, you spread the prepared banana leaf, wipe it with a damp cloth. Next, you add about 1 cup of pre-processed glutinous rice, spread the sticky rice vertically . Then, you put about 3 tablespoons of cashews and 2-3 pieces of pork belly and in the middle of the cake , continue to spread it vertically.

Finally, you wrap the cake to form a cylinder and then use a string to tighten and fasten it. Do the same until you run out of ingredients.

Wrap the cake tightly so as not to lose the rope during the boiling process

Step 4Boil, wash and dry the cake

First, you line the bottom about 2-3 banana leaves and then arrange the cake in turn into the pot . Next, you fill the cake with water about 10cm and then boil the cake on medium heat for about 4-6 hours . While boiling the cake, remember to dry the soup, add more to prevent the cake from burning.

After boiling the cake, take out the banh tet and soak it in cold water for 3-5 minutes. Finally, you let the cake drain for about 3-5 hours to complete.

During the boiling process, remember to add more water to prevent the cake from burning

Good tip : Putting banana leaves under the pot will help prevent the cake from burning.

Finished product

Soft and flexible banh tet mixed with fatty cashew nut flavor has created a traditional cake that is both familiar and new. You definitely have to try it once in your life!

Fatty cashew nut cake

So, Tnhelearning.edu.vn has shown you how to make fragrant and delicious cashew nut cakes and treat the whole family on New Year’s Day. Quickly make this delicious dish to treat the whole family right away!

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