Banh Tet Recipe

step 1

• STEP 1.Wash and soak the sticky rice and leguminous plant beans for four hours. Also, wash, wipe, clean, and tear the banana leaves into 18-20 inches sheets.

step 2

• STEP 2.Place the leguminous plant beans in a very pot stuffed with merely enough water to hide. Waken a boil medium heat, then scale back to a simmer and cook, stirring sometimes, till mashable, regarding 20-30 minutes.

step 3

• STEP 3.Mash into a paste with a potato masher or spoon. Season with one tsp salt, one tsp pepper, cooked shallot, and edible fat.

step 4

• STEP 4.Season the pork with fish sauce, one tsp pepper, and shallots. Take a few cups of the mashed leguminous plant beans, opened up on a cling film, place a chunk of pork on high and wrap it up shaping into a log with the banana sheets.

step 5

• STEP 5.To assemble, lay out six sheets of part overlapping banana leaves so the spinal veins of the leaves square measure parallel (you will replace a number of the center sheets with tin foil.) the darker facet of the top sheets faces up. Place a few cups of rice on the length of the leaves. Place the filling on high of the rice. Then cowl it up with another cup of rice.

step 6

• STEP 6.Lift up the edges of the wrapper and allow them to meet, then fold to form the cake into a log. Tie a knot right within the middle of the log. Roughly fold one finish and stand it up. Fold {the end|the high|the tip} on top to seal and canopy with some items of banana leaves. Then tie another knot nearer to the tip. Do constant with the opposite finish. Then tie the cake with a lot of strings to create certain the banana leaves won

step 8

• STEP 7.Stand the cakes in a very giant pot stuffed with enough water to hide. Simmer till the cakes feel plump and also the rice is jellied for 8-10 hours. Keep a watch on the pot and add a lot of predicament as necessary to stay the cakes coated.

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• STEP 8.When roasted, take away the cakes and rinse beneath cold water. Then suspend them up to air dry. To serve, expose the cake and delve wheel-shaped slices mistreatment thread or floss. Bánh tet is commonly served with preserved onions (dua hanh), preserved vegetables in fish sauce (dua mon), or lordotic in sugar for a sweet treat. They will even be fried till golden brown and served with sweet chili fish sauce.