Unique five-color cakes at Qua Son temple festival
Ngoc Phuong•DNUM_CCZACZCABJ 17:53
(Baonghean.vn) - Coming to the Qua Son Temple Festival, visitors can not only participate in exciting cultural and sports activities but also enjoy five-color cakes - a traditional local cake only available during the festival season.
Five-color banh troi is made from glutinous rice flour, each cake has 5 colors created from nature: red from the fruit of the plum tree, purple from the purple leaves, green from the pandan leaves, yellow from the purple leaves or turmeric and white from glutinous rice flour. After being ground, the glutinous rice flour will be mixed separately with each color. Then add sugar and a little salt.
The unique feature of Qua Son floating cake is that it must have the flavor of the Chum Phu fruit, which is only available from November to December of the lunar calendar. This is a fruit with hairy thorns like the Rambutan fruit. People often peel it, take the red pulp to make cakes or sticky rice. Chum Phu is considered a fruit rich in vitamin A.
In the past, in Bach Ngoc village of Lam Son, Ngoc Son and Boi Son communes, every household made five-color sticky rice balls. Therefore, bringing five-color sticky rice balls to the Qua Son Temple Festival is a beautiful culinary culture, creating an impression in the hearts of visitors from all over the world every time they come to Qua Temple. During the festival season, mothers and sisters are busy making five-color sticky rice balls to serve visitors.
After mixing the colors, the dough is shaped into round balls. The five-color dumplings have the aroma of different plants, the stickiness of sticky rice, and the slight sweetness of sugar.
The cake is dropped into a pot of boiling water to cook. Every year, during the festival, many tourists come to enjoy and learn how to make this unique cake. This is an activity to preserve the cultural beauty of the Qua Son Temple festival.
In addition to banh troi, they also make banh doi, rolled from many types of colored sticky rice, with natural coloring ingredients such as five-color banh troi. When cut into pieces, the cake is very beautiful.
During the festival days, the makers of five-color sticky rice balls at Qua Son Temple produce dozens of kilograms of cakes every day to serve tourists. Five-color sticky rice balls have become an attractive specialty of the people of Boi Son commune. The price of a bowl of five-color sticky rice balls is 10,000 VND, and a bowl of double sticky rice balls is 70,000 VND/piece.
(Baonghean.vn) - Qua Son Temple is one of the four sacred places of Nghe An: "first Con, second Qua, third Bach Ma, fourth Chieu Trung". Every year, on January 18-20 (lunar calendar), people of Do Luong district and tourists from all over the country flock to Qua Son Temple Festival - a traditional festival to commemorate Uy Minh Vuong Ly Nhat Quang.
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