"Want to eat cake with few hemp leaves, Marrying Binh Dinh is afraid of the long road.."
The ingredients for making cake with few hemp leaves are easy to find in the countryside of Binh Dinh. Pick a few prickly leaves - plants planted in fences or in clusters next to the pond - boiled, pounded, add freshly squeezed glutinous rice flour and granulated sugar to pound, mix well to finish the cake dough. The filling, in addition to green beans and sugar, must have desiccated coconut to be "gut". The sugar is won to lose the smell, for the green beans to peel, boiled and grated coconut, stir-fry until just dry, the ball is medium. Remember to add salt water and ginger to make the filling more fragrant and sweet.Cut a ball of hemp leaf dough about the size of a crushed chicken egg in the palm of your hand, place the rounded dough ball the size of a quail egg in the middle, wrap it up, roll it, and then steam it until it's cooked. That finished the processing, now it's just a matter of beautifying the cake.Young banana leaves have been dried in the sun or over a fire to reduce brittleness, cut into round pieces about the size of a glove. Fold two pieces into one, roll into a funnel shape, place the cake that has been coated with cooked peanut oil in the middle. Arrange the leaves into a pointed pyramid so that the sides are square and balanced like a pyramid. Then steam it briefly so that the "dead" folds will not burst, don't steam for a long time, it will lose its green color, but it will be soft and not beautiful. So the cake with few prickly leaves, a specialty of Binh Dinh, is completed.Holding the green "pyramid", peel off the leaf layer, take a bite, listen to the gentle bitterness of the leaves, a little plasticity of sticky rice, a little flesh of beans, a little sweetness of sugar, a little fat of coconut mixed with the smell. fragrant thorn leaves.