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Rice cake - rich flavor of rustic cake

Báo Sóc TrăngBáo Sóc Trăng27/06/2023


STO - In addition to food and staple foods for daily meals, Soc Trang people also prepare many types of traditional cakes for snacks, gifts, to entertain guests or during holidays and Tet.

After a long time living, working, and exchanging cultures together, with their open-mindedness, liberal spirit, diligence, industriousness, and ingenuity, the three ethnic groups Kinh, Khmer, and Hoa in Soc Trang have transformed traditional cakes into diverse designs, rich in recipes, and ways of preparation.

Hundreds of types of cakes in the kitchens of housewives today are regularly present in holidays, fairs, regional, national and international culinary festivals. Typical examples include the gold medal for tube cake at the Southern Traditional Cake Festival in 2017 by artisans Thach Thi Thanh Sang and Trieu Sa Da; the silver medal for flat rice cake and the gold medal for gourd cake in 2018, and the silver medal for turnip cake in 2019 by artisan Huynh Ngoc Lan.

Soc Trang rice cake - Silver medal at the 9th Southern Traditional Cake Festival in Can Tho in 2022.

In 2022, at the 9th Southern Traditional Cake Competition held in Can Tho, artisan Ly My Khanh's rice cake (Soc Trang) was honored to receive a silver medal from the organizing committee.

Soc Trang rice cake is usually made on the occasion of Ha Nguyen festival or also known as New Rice Festival, held on October 15 (lunar calendar) every year to offer to Than Nong. At that time, farming work is temporarily stopped, straw fills the fields, rice fills the barns, farmers happily thank Buddha, ancestors for favorable weather and wind for a bountiful harvest, and at the same time pray for family peace and pray for the deceased.

Banh bong lua is usually made from ground rice flour and shaped into long, soft, smooth, white cakes rolled up with green beans dotted inside, next to a bowl of coconut milk and fragrant onion oil, as if challenging and inviting diners.

Rice flour, tapioca starch, sugar, salt, coconut milk in appropriate proportions, dissolved in water, let stand for 30 minutes for the dough to expand. After steaming the mung beans, mix them into the expanded dough mixture, put the pan on high heat, stir well until the dough in the pan begins to thicken, then reduce the heat and continue stirring well. When the dough in the pan clumps and no longer sticks to the pan, turn off the heat and let cool.

Take a little oil on your hands. Then, take a sufficient amount of dough and shape it into long sticks of your desired length. Continue to shape it like that until you run out of dough. Place the pot on the stove, apply a thin layer of oil on the steamer tray. Arrange all the shaped cakes in the steamer and steam for 12-15 minutes over medium heat. Then, take the cakes out and put them on a plate. Mix the coconut milk and rice flour until thick, add a little salt, sugar, and vanilla. The scallion oil mixture includes salt, scallions, sesame oil and is used with the cake.

Although it is a vegetarian cake, it is very delicious. When enjoying it, everyone will be fascinated by the aroma of sesame oil, onion oil, the sweet and fatty taste of green beans, the richness of salt and sugar, and the richness of coconut milk.

The rice cake is prepared with both the traditional, rustic characteristics suitable for the geographical area and what nature has to offer, and also shows the creativity, effort and heart of the maker.

In some places, people also have ways to make rice cake with many flavors, with different names such as taro cake, peanut cake, corn cake, coconut cake, or green bean cake, which is also called rice cake, rice cake, rice leaf cake. "Reflecting the rustic flavor/Unforgettable rice cake with coconut milk".

The rice cake has all the elements of color, aroma, and taste, adding more color to the lives of workers. It can be said that Soc Trang traditional cakes are appearing more and more with a more luxurious and clean appearance, paired with many delicious cakes of other provinces in a completely new environment, leaving a unique and interesting impression in the hearts of diners near and far.

JADE MAN



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