(Baonghean.vn) - Until now, people have only known and eaten white rice cakes. When talking about red rice cakes, everyone seems unfamiliar. However, there is a rice cake making village in Nghi Thinh commune (Nghi Loc district, Nghe An) that has long only made cakes from red Luoc strawberry rice grains mixed with white rice, creating unique and delicious red rice cakes.
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| Red rice cake in hamlet 9, Nghi Thinh commune is made from red Luoc strawberry rice grains... |
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| Mixed with pure white rice grains. |
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| Strawberry rice mixed with white rice, after being soaked in cold water for a few hours, will be put into a wet grinder. |
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| If the first time you grind the rice, it will not be smooth, you have to grind it a second time to make the powder finer, which will make more delicious red rice cakes. |
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| Boil lime water, when it boils, immediately pour in the rice flour. While pouring, you have to be quick or the flour will clump together, when the cake comes out it will be lumpy. |
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| The batter is poured into the pot, the person cooking the cake must stand right next to the pot, stirring constantly to prevent the cake from clumping. The fire must not be too high, otherwise the cake will easily burn. For the people cooking the cake in Hamlet 9 Nghi Thinh, because they are used to it, a pot of red rice cake only takes 1.5 to 2 hours to cook. |
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| Stir well and cook until the cake batter is not broken but flows continuously, then it proves that the red cake is cooked. Immediately, take the pot of cake down and scoop it into the prepared bowls. Scooping the cake must be done quickly while the cake in the pot is hot. If left to cool, the cake will solidify and cannot be scooped out. |
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| The red rice cakes are placed on shelves to cool. Red rice cakes are best eaten cold, as they are cooler when cold, and are perfect for hot summer days like these. |
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| Those who make red rice cakes in Nghi Thinh believe that, in the past, only people here made red rice cakes, other places only made white rice cakes. And eating red rice cakes with banana salad (a salad made from banana roots) is the most palatable and easiest to eat. |
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| Over time, red rice cake is eaten with many dishes such as beef stew, dog meat, beef or pork blood... But red rice cake eaten with pork offal stew is still chosen by many people here. |
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| Nghi Thinh rice cake has also become a familiar hometown gift in markets in Nghi Loc district such as Dinh market (Nghi Thinh), Son market (Nghi Thach), Quan market (Nghi Hoa)... And even this unique rice cake has become a gift for many people to bring with them every time they return to their hometown. |
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