The wife's cake, also known as the su su cake, is a familiar cake indispensable in Vietnamese wedding ceremonies.
Each region has a different way of making this cake. And in Hue, the wedding cake has a very unique taste and presentation that everyone who eats once will remember forever.
Today we will introduce to you how to wrap your wife's cake with coconut leaves to show your skillfulness to your loved ones to enjoy this delicious cake.
How to pack spousal bread with coconut leaves in a Hue style
Materials need to prepare:
- 200g flour
- 50g peeled green beans
- 20g grated coconut
- 120g of sugar
- 1 handful of sticky leaves
- 2 bundles of coconut leaves
- 350 ml of filtered water
- A few drops of grapefruit fragrance, cooking oil
How to pack spousal bread with coconut leaves
To complete a spousal cake wrapped in beautiful and delicious coconut leaves in Hue style, you need to follow these steps:
Step 1: Making spousal cake
The first step in wrapping the cake with coconut leaves is to make the cake filling.
Green beans soaked in water to soft
- The green beans are washed and then soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours to allow them to hatch and soften; Then take out the steamer for 20 minutes to soften, squeeze to see puree seeds.
Steamed green beans and sautéed with sugar and cooked in a round shape
- Put the green beans in a blender or grind them by hand until they are smooth to the touch.
- You put the pan on the stove to add a little oil, pour finely ground green beans, add 50g of fried sugar until the mixture thickens into a block.
To increase the flavor of the cake you add a few drops of grapefruit perfume on and turn off the heat. The cool beans you divide into equal parts and roll into small balls.
Step 2: Make spousal crust
- Take 1 handful of chopped sticky leaves into the machine with 1 bowl of pureed water, filter the juice, remove the residue.
Stir the ingredients to make the spousal crust
- You pour the flour into a large bowl, add 70g sugar, 20g shredded coconut, sticky leaf juice, and add water and stir well.
You pay attention to the amount of water slowly so that the dough mixture is not too thick, not too thin to ensure that the cake is both delicious and easy to pack.
Half-cooked, half-cooked
- Put the pot on the stove and pour the above powder into a low heat, just cook while stirring until the dough is half-cooked, but it must be thick, not thick, then turn off the heat.
The method of stirring half-cooked, half-cooked dough is often referred to by mothers as dough, when the dough is thick enough to be poured, not thick, and the mixture looks somewhat cloudy.
Step 3: Pack the spousal cake with coconut leaves
In the way of wrapping the cake with coconut leaves requires you to be skillful so that the dough is not too thick out, the cake is spread evenly inside while steaming on the inner shell to clearly see the yellow color of the bean inside.
Making the spousal cake box
- Make a box of spousal-bread: Wash the coconut leaves to drain. The lid of the box you measure the coconut leaves is 21 cm long, arranged in 5 equal sides, the leaf ridge is the edge of the box, arranged at a 45 degree angle on the inside square edge. In the box you measure the leaves 20 cm, cut one side of the leaf staggered, using a toothpick to re-insert it.
- Next, you cut the coconut leaves into small pieces and lined the bottom of the box and lined it a little longer to easily take out the cake.
- Take a spoon to scoop a little flour into the mold and then put a green bean ball in the middle, press evenly. Next, add a spoonful of flour on top of the kernel and then spread it out with a spoon to cover the entire layer.
Step 4: Steam the cake and enjoy
You prepare the steamer, bring the water halfway through the pot to boil, then put the cake in, cover tightly. When steaming, simmer on low heat to avoid the cake from spilling and spilling the filling.
You steam for about 10-15 minutes to make the cake cooked. When you put the cake in steam, you do not need to cover the lid to easily see if the cake is cooked. After the cake is cooked, put out the lid.
The bridegroom wrapped in coconut leaves looks extremely attractive
After finishing, the Phu Lady cake wrapped in coconut leaves looks extremely attractive, the cake has the aroma of coconut fiber, the freshness of the flour, the fragrant aroma of green beans.
The above is how to wrap the spousal wife cake with coconut leaves, hoping to help women write in the cooking notebook a new recipe to show off their talents to entertain relatives and friends. Surely, when enjoying this spousal cake, everyone will be extremely impressed and praise you incessantly. In addition, you can refer to how to make the most standard rice dumplings that we shared with readers in the previous article.
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