The custom of chung cake package has become the traditional culture of the Vietnamese nation. In contrast to the fast food in modern life, chung cake is a complicated cake in cooking and takes a long time to make. 😩Chung cake is available all year round, however everyone eats it on Lunar New Year, this is a traditional Vietnamese cake. This cake is so delicious, which is an irreplaceable cake of Vietnamese people during the Tet Holidays . We often use this cake to worship our ancestors during the 3 days of Tet. The main ingredients are belly pork meat, glutinous rice, mung beans which are wrapped in a fresh banana leaves or phrynium leaves– which give the cake a beautiful green color. But today I want to change that old recipe, I use purple leaves to color the sticky (glutinous)rice.😂
Ingredient:
- Sticky(glutinous) rice
- Violet leaves
- Mung beans
- Pork (pork belly is the best part to make chung cake)
- Pepper, salt, fish sauce (for marinating pork)
- Banana leaves or dong leaves (Phrynium leaves) to wrap chung cake
1. Wash the leaves, marinate the meat, soak the rice, soak mung beans😍
Rinse the leaves several times and wipe the leaves with a towel until the leaves are dry. Cut the pork into squares and season them with salt, pepper, fish sauce and place in the fridge to marinate for 12 hours for the best flavor of the pork. The fat and lean pork are preferred for chung cake because its fatty flavor associates with the glutinous rice and mung bean. Soak mung beans in water for at least 6 hours. Some people steam mung beans and grind it into round mung bean balls. But I saved time, I soaked the green beans and cooked it directly.
Soaked the sticky rice overnight, then drain and shake with salt. For this purple chung cake, I boiled a pot of water and dropped purple leaves in it. Strain the purple water, let it cool and soak the glutinous rice for at least 8 hours.
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2. Wrap chung cake
To make nice square chung cake, need a square wooden mold to shape the cake. The long cake has to be wrapped by hand, this cake only my mother or my grandparents know how to wrap, most young people like me don't know how to wrap this chung cake. It requires dexterity and finesse, it's not easy to wrap.Stuff a layer of glutinous rice, followed by green beans, seasoned pork, then green beans again and finally another layer of rice. Tie chung cake with giang strip or nylon strip.☺️
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3. Boil the chung cake🤗
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Place cakes in a pot padded with dong leaf stalks, pour in enough water to submerge the chung cakes. Boils for about 8 to 12 hours by wood. Remember to keep an eye on your pot and add more water if necessary to keep the cakes well covered. After boiling time is over, the cake needs to be pressed under heavy objects for a few hours to remove excess water.
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