Unique types of banh chung for Tet

(Baonghean.vn) - Besides the traditional green banh chung, many families have chosen banh chung with more unique and strange shapes to add more color to their New Year's Eve tray.

Besides the traditional green banh chung, many families have chosen banh chung with more unique and strange shapes to add more color to their New Year's Eve tray.

Five-color Chung cake, purple sticky rice Chung cake, hill sticky rice Chung cake, letter-shaped Tet cake... are new variations of the traditional Chung cake, favored by housewives and families during the Dinh Dau Tet holiday this year.

Banh chung gac

The beautiful red color of banh chung gac symbolizes wishes for good luck all year round.

Banh chung gac is made from fresh ingredients such as: sticky rice mixed with pork, gac, green beans, spices... The flavor of the cake is very special, fragrant with gac flavor. Currently, on the market there are banh chung with salty gac filling (with pork) or banh chung with sweet gac filling (with sugar filling).

Five-color Chung cake

The cake has 5 colors: white, red, purple, blue, yellow symbolizing the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

Making a five-color banh chung takes a lot of time and requires sophisticated techniques. The colors of the cake are made entirely from natural ingredients: green rice is made from the water of ground galangal leaves, yellow from fresh turmeric, red from gac fruit, purple from purple sticky rice or purple leaf water.

In particular, to make the cake have beautiful colors, the maker must be skillful in pouring rice into the mold very carefully so that the colors do not mix together. The 5 colors in the cake are 5 different flavors, do not cause a feeling of fullness when eating, so it is loved by many people.

Dien Bien green sticky rice cake

Green Chung cake, a specialty of Dien Bien, is made from upland sticky rice.

The cake is made from green sticky rice typical of Dien Bien. When enjoying the cake, you can feel the sticky, fragrant taste of the specialty rice grains of the highlands.

Red sticky rice cake

The cake is made from special ingredients: red sticky rice, green beans, salt… not only attractive because of its special flavor but also has quite eye-catching colors. This type of cake is suitable for vegetarians.

Red sticky rice banh chung is suitable for vegetarians.

Black Chung Cake

This is a traditional cake of the Tay people in Lang Son, with the purple-black color of sticky rice, soft, chewy, and cool taste.

Black Chung cake is a traditional cake of the Tay people.

The cake is wrapped in a round, long shape, similar to banh tet in the South.

Tet cake with letters wishing Spring

Purple sticky rice cake with salted egg

Besides the traditional banh tet wrapped with the same ingredients as banh chung, nowadays, there is also banh tet with purple leaves and salted duck eggs.

Tet cake with letters wishing Spring

In particular, there is also a type of lettered banh tet, with each round of banh tet being a separate letter. A pair of cakes contains a different set of spring greetings such as happy new year, prosperity, wealth, prosperity, etc.

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