How to Make Silk Loaf Cake has never been so simple

The way to make the girdle cake below is surprisingly simple. The plasticity of sticky rice and the delicious taste of silk rolls make everyone sobbing. Let's go to the kitchen together with Taky Food, sisters?

What is Giay cake?

Giay cake (also known as Cake giay, Cake gio, Cake giay) is a traditional Vietnamese cake, meant to express the gratitude of descendants to the ancestors and the land and heaven. The cake is usually made with very fine pounded glutinous rice, which can be filled with green beans and coconut fibers with a sweet, or salty, or vegetarian flavor. Cakes are usually made on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year and on the 10th day of the third month of the lunar calendar (the day of the Gio to Hung Vuong).

Together with banh chung, the banh giay represents the ancient Vietnamese concept of the universe. It has a clear white, round shape, is considered to characterize the sky in Vietnamese beliefs. In Japan there is also a similar type of cake made from glutinous rice, called Mochi.

How to make Giay Cake:

A. How to make silk rolls

1. Raw materials:

- Pork shoulder: 0.5 kg

- Fish sauce: 2.5 tablespoons cf

- Sugar: 1 teaspoon cf

- Cooking oil: 2 tablespoons cf

- Pepper: 2 tablespoons cf

- Baking powder: 1/2 teaspoon cf

- Cinnamon powder: 1/2 teaspoon cf

- Cold water: 8 tablespoons cf

- Tai Ky rice flour: 1 - 1.5 teaspoons cf

2. How to do:

- Step 1: You should choose a slightly fatty part of the meat that will make the silk rolls fragrant and not dry, cut or mince, and grind them.

- Step 2: Take turns marinate the meat with the above spices to make the meat soaked and flexible, put in a plastic bag and spread thinly over the meat, put in the freezer for about 2 - 2.5 hours, then take out the puree and whip into raw rolls. .

- Step 3: Spread 1 piece of food wrap on the table. Then, add 3 large banana leaves, then put the raw rolls in the middle. Let the live rolls not stick to your hands to soak up some cold water.

- Step 4: Grasp the two edges of banana leaves and wrap the food together, then wrap it up (Like banh Tet package). Fold 1 top of the roll, upright, cut the residue if the leaves are too much. Use your hand to press the live roll and then fold it. You do the same on the other end. And tie the rope.

- Step 5: Now you roll the lever round and then tie the rope horizontally.

- Step 6: Put the rolls in and steam for 30-45 minutes since the water boils. When the rolls are ripe, you take them out. Roll the lever on the table and let it drain. Cut the rolls into bite-sized pieces with vegetarian rice cakes!

B. How to make rice cakes

1. Raw materials:

- Tai Ky sticky flour: 300g

- Boiled water: 300ml

- Salt: 1/3 teaspoon cf

Silk rolls: 300g

- Banana leave

- Cooking oil: 2 tbsp

2. How to do:

- Step 1: Put all the glutinous rice powder in a bowl, add salt and stir. Boil water and pour it slowly into the flour bowl. Take 1 teaspoon to mix the dough with water (depending on the new powder or the old powder, the amount of water may vary). Once the water has run out and the spoon has been used, the dough will still be hot.

- Step 2: Use cooking oil and rub the dough slowly, if you stick to your hands, add a little oil to your hands and then stuff it until the dough becomes a smooth, non-sticky mass. Cover with food wrap, incubate for about 20 minutes.

- Step 3: While waiting for the dough, take the banana leaves out and wash them, dry them, cut them into small round pieces, apply cooking oil on one side so that the girdle cake placed on the cake will not stick to the leaves.

- Step 4: Having enough time for the dough, boil the steaming pot, take the flour out and divide into equal pieces of 60g, round, press flat and place in the prepared banana leaf pieces.

- Step 5: Boiling water, in turn, put the cake in a pot or steamed (do not let the cake overlap), cover with the pot and turn down the heat to reduce, the cooked cake will be beautiful, not bulging or losing focus. Steaming for about 10 minutes will make the cake clear, if steamed too long, the cake will also lose its focus.

The cooked cake is taken out of the pot, let it cool down and then cut the pieces of silk rolls sandwiched between the two cakes and enjoy it right away!

The cake is flexible, chewed, and it tastes sweet, eating with salty silk rolls in this season is great. Wish you success with this way of making this girdle cake!

(Author: Thanh Mong Nguyen)