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Cooking Sticky Rice Cake: Add This Ingredient to Make It Soft and Reduce Cooking Time by Half

With the following steamed sticky rice cake recipe, you'll find the cake soft and chewy while saving time and effort in cooking.

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15 January, 2024

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How to make banh chung cook faster

Soak the sticky rice in ash water: One of the ways to help women cook banh chung quickly is to try soaking the sticky rice in ash water, which is an alkaline environment so that after cooking, the rice in the banh will quickly ripen and become tender. This method can also be effectively applied to banh chung and many other types of cakes such as banh it, banh gai. Normally, you soak the sticky rice in ash water for about 3 – 4 hours or overnight. This way, you will see that your banh chung will cook faster and save cooking time.

Use baking soda: One of the secrets housewives often use when they want their homemade banh chung to cook quickly is to add a little baking soda to keep the banana leaves green and the cake to cook faster, similar to when boiling vegetables, add a little baking powder to keep them green. You can completely buy baking soda at a cake store, this is not a harmful chemical so you can use it with confidence.

Quickly blanch the banana leaves: If you want your homemade banh chung to be greener and cook faster, reducing cooking time, you should quickly blanch the leaves. With the bamboo leaves you bought, they must be rinsed cleanly through many water, then use a clean towel to wipe each leaf. Before wrapping the cake, you also need to blanch the leaves in boiling water to help make them soft and easy to wrap, as well as to kill all mold spores. The number of leaves for each cake also depends on the weather, if it’s cool, use 6 leaves, if it’s hot, use 10 leaves to better preserve the cake.

How to wrap delicious banh chung

Ingredients for delicious banh chung

– Glutinous rice depending on the quantity

– Pork belly depending on the quantity

– Peeled mung beans depending on the quantity

– Banana leaves or bamboo leaves

Seasonings: Salt, sugar, pepper

How to make banh chung

Step 1 Prepare the filling and wrapping leavesBanana leaves or bamboo leaves are bought, washed clean.

Soak the sticky rice, peeled mung beans before wrapping for about 4 hours or overnight, you can soak the sticky rice with banana leaves or pandan leaves to make the rice fragrant and green.

Step 2 Prepare the ingredientsAfter soaking, pour the sticky rice into a sieve and drain, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of salt and mix well. Pour the mung beans into the sieve, add salt and pepper and mix well.

Wash and cut the pork into pieces. The way to marinate the meat for banh chung is very simple, you just need to marinate with salt, sugar, and pepper with an amount that is suitable for eating. In addition, you can also refer to how to make delicious banh chung fillingWrap the cakeWrap the cake with a square mold

To make the banh chung square and beautiful, you should prepare square-shaped banh chung molds to fix the shape of the cake. You stack about 4 pieces of banana leaves on the mold, each leaf you fold in half to create a straight line, place the banana leaf vertically along this straight line and put it in the 4 corners of the frame then add the sticky rice, mung beans, and pork as shown below.

Distribute the sticky rice evenly in the 4 corners to avoid the cake being lumpy, add mung beans and then add the meat and finally add another layer of mung beans on top.

Stack the leaves into the mold and add the filling. Then you fold the banana leaf back, use 1 hand to hold the folded mouth and then lift the mold up, tie the string 2 times in the shape of a cross. Do not tie the string too tightly to avoid the cake not being beautiful and delicious.