How to make delicious Thai Binh specialty cake easy to make

At home, the dish is still Thai Binh standard, take a bite, refresh the whole person, enjoy the quintessence of the sunny and windy Central. What are you waiting for, let’s do it right now.

Characteristics and origin of fish cakes

Origin : Banh Cay is a specialty of Thai Binh rice countryside, made from the skillful hands of Nguyen villagers, in the past used to offer the king .

Many people still mistakenly believe that banh chung is made from fish because they believe that it is given by the god of the fish in the sea . However, in fact, this is a cake made from main ingredients such as: Sticky rice, sesame, peanuts…

Characteristics and origin of fish cakes

Characteristics : From very simple ingredients, the people here have combined to create a special cake with a very special taste .

Cay cake usually has a long and small rectangle shape, a slightly coppery yellow color, both crispy and flexible, on the surface there is usually a little ginger and shredded coconut,… It can be said that this is a very typical cake. which other than Thai Binh can not be found anywhere.

How to make delicious Thai Binh Cay Cake

Prepare
60 Minutes Processing
90 Minutes For
4-6 people to eat

Ingredients for Thai Binh Cay Cake

Ingredients for making fish cakes

• 300g lard (marinated with 5g salt and 300g in diameter before 15 days)
• 0.3g caviar (crayfish)
• 1 kg sticky rice (soaked in cold water overnight)
• 7g reserved powder
• 100g sesame/sesame
• 200g peanuts/peanuts
• 1 fresh ginger
• 1 carrot
• 2 pieces of tangerine peel
• Shredded coconut rice
• Spices: Sugar

Good tip

About lard: You should choose to buy shoulder or nape fat, do not use sa fat, wash it. Boil medium with a little salt (to remove the smell).

About glutinous rice: Delicious glutinous rice usually has a large, even grain size. Outside the ball, the rice grain is not broken, not humus or yellow.

How to make Thai Binh specialty cake

Step 1Processing pork fat

The pork fat is clear and crispy

You proceed to diced the lard (marinated with a mixture of salt and sugar for 15 days), then stir-fry with a little sugar on the heated stove. When the lard turns clear and crispy, turn off the heat.

Hot Tip : Chop the lard into small pieces to quickly melt into oil when heated in Step 6

Step 2Glutinous rice processing

Roasted sticky rice

Rinse the sticky rice that has been soaked overnight. Next, you roast glutinous rice and filter out the husk, remember to filter the husk so that the transplanted cake has no grit and is more delicious.

Step 3Processing peanuts and sesame

Prepare peanuts and sesame for roasting

Roasted, crispy peanuts (remove shell) and sesame, remember not to burn!

Step 4Preparation of carrot mixture

Stir-fry carrots with a mixture of sugar water, ginger juice and tangerine peel

You make 1 bowl of sugar water and 1 small bowl of ginger juice. Then, stir-fry the sliced carrots with sugar water, ginger juice and 2 fresh tangerine peels until the carrots are cooked, then turn off the heat.

Note : Slice carrots slightly larger than usual because when sautéing carrots will shrink.

Step 5Map away

Sticky rice with reserved powdered juice

Mix the gardenia powder with water, filter it through a sieve to get the juice. Then, you mix the reserved juice with glutinous rice. Continue, you bring the mixture to sticky rice (steamed with steam) and finally pound the sticky rice as fine as a powder.

Good tip :

– Grinding sticky rice while it is still hot will be smoother and less sticky.

– You can replace sticky rice with Gac sticky rice or do both

Step 6Roll the mixture thinly and stir with the lard

Mix sticky rice and lard

You proceed to thin the sticky rice that has just been pounded, cut into thin slices to eat, and dried. Next, you put the diced lard in a hot pan until the oil is released, then pour in the dried powdered sticky rice, remember to stir until the cake is crispy and fragrant.

Step 7Processing the fish cake and pouring the mold

Cay cake when pressed with all ingredients

You mix the ingredients of roasted peanuts, stir-fried carrot mixture, the mixture of pounded sticky rice flour with lard and 0.3g of eggs with cane sugar in a large pot.

Then you put the mixture into a hot pan to heat until fragrant, then pour into a wooden mold lined with roasted sesame and shredded coconut on the bottom. Use your hands to press the mold firmly!

Note : Shredded coconut rice will add to the deliciousness of the rice cake, but this is not a required ingredient.

Step 8Cut the cake into small pieces and enjoy

Cut the fish cake according to your needs

You wait for the cake to cool (about 30 minutes) because cutting the cake while it is still hot will make the cake fragile. Next, you start cutting the cake and enjoy!

Finished Product

Cay cake at home with Thai Binh flavor

Cay cake is both flexible and crispy, has a medium sweet, slightly fleshy taste, and a little bit of fat mixed with the hot spicy taste of ginger, making people feel warm and comfortable. Add a cup of hot tea on rainy days, nothing better!

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