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2+ How to make tough Northern traditional gai cake at home
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Referring to gai cake, surely not everyone knows this delicious cake. This is a cake associated with the beautiful childhood of many generations. Gai cake is a famous cake of people in the Northern Delta. The cake with the soft outer shell, the green bean paste inside, makes everyone who eats it compliments the deliciousness. So what do you need to prepare to make traditional Northern style gai cake? The following article, Dung Ha Dry Food will answer in the most detail to you how to make tough traditional Northern gai cake at home. Let’s get started right away.
1. Overview of gai cake?
Gai cake (also known as little cake). This is a traditional sweet cake of Vietnam, the cake originated from a long time ago and can be bought anywhere. The cake is made from glutinous rice flour, so the cake is very supple and soft. The highlight of this cake is that the outer shell has a very strange shiny black color due to the use of hemp leaf powder. The traditional filling inside is using green bean filling, so it is extremely suitable and attractive to eat.
The North is the main source of these shiny black bean curd cakes. Specifically, this cake is popular in areas such as: Nam Dinh, Hai Duong, Tuyen Quang, Thanh Hoa,… and until now, many people have not identified specifically where the gai cake originated. . They concluded that gai cake originated from the Northern region.
Gai cake has a lot in the Northern provinces and cities and each region has different recipes for making gai cakes. But perhaps, the most popular with gai cake is mung bean filling and coconut filling is the most popular. And to make these 2 types of gai cakes, please take a few minutes to cook with Dry Food in the kitchen.
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2. How to make soft chewy cake filled with fatty green beans
Cake ingredients:
- 500g glutinous rice flour
- 200g white sugar
- 350g shelled green beans
- 50g fresh coconut, grated
- 20g white sesame
- 50g dried hemp leaves
- 1 teaspoon grapefruit essential oil
- Cooking oil
- Dried banana leaves
Implementation steps:
Step 1: Make hemp leaf powder
- Using a knife, peel off the spines of the leaves
- Put hemp leaves in a pot with 200ml of pure water
- Put the pot of hemp leaves on the stove, proceed to boil the hemp leaves
- Take out the hemp leaves, let the hemp leaves cool
- Put the hemp leaves into the mortar, grind the hemp leaves
- Put 500g of glutinous rice flour + 3 tablespoons of white sugar in a bowl with crushed hemp leaves + juice of hemp leaves
- Knead well so that all ingredients form a smooth, non-sticky hemp leaf powder mixture
- Incubate the leaf powder for about 1 hour for the dough to rest
Step 2: Make the green bean paste
- Put 350g of peeled green beans in a pot and steam them for 3 hours
- Once the green beans are cooked, put them in a blender. Puree and smooth green beans
- Put in a bowl 150g white sugar + grated coconut + grapefruit essential oil + pureed green beans. Mix well together
- Season the filling to suit your taste
Step 3: Wrap the cake
- Wipe dry banana leaves. Cut 2 pieces of banana leaves 30cm long and 20cm wide. One leaf for vertical, one leaf for horizontal
- Apply a layer of cooking oil on the surface of the banana leaf
- Break the cake dough about 60g. Roll the cake back. Place the cake on a banana leaf, roll the dough out with a rolling pin
- Take a spoon, shovel the green bean paste onto the surface of the cake, spread the filling evenly
- Cover the cake so that the filling does not come out
- Sprinkle white sesame on the cake. Wrap the cake tightly
Step 4: Steam the cake
- Arrange the cake neatly in the basket. Steam the cake for 35 minutes and it will cook evenly
- When the cake is cooked, take it out and let it cool down and enjoy
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3. How to make soft coconut cake and eat it and grind it
Cake ingredients:
- 500g glutinous rice flour
- 300g white sugar
- 250g hemp leaf powder
- 10g tapioca flour
- 100g grated coconut
- 150g roasted peanuts (crushed)
- 20g white sesame
- 1 teaspoon grapefruit essential oil
- Cooking oil
- Dried banana leaves
Implementation steps:
Step 1: Make the cake crust
- Put glutinous rice flour + sugar + hemp leaf powder + grapefruit essential oil + 2 cups of warm water instead
- Mix all ingredients together
- Knead well by hand to form a smooth, non-sticky hemp leaf dough
- Let the dough rest for 20 minutes
Step 2: Make the cake
- Put 150ml of pure water + white sugar into the pot
- Put the pot of sugar water on the stove and proceed to melt the sugar on medium heat
- While boiling the sugar, stir well with your hands so that the sugar dissolves and turns brown
- Put the tapioca starch in a bowl with 5ml of purified water. Stir well until the tapioca is dissolved in the water
- Pour the tapioca water mixture into the sugar pot on the stove. Stir well to form a smooth paste
- Put the shredded coconut + crushed peanuts in the sugar pot on the stove. Stir all ingredients for 5 minutes
Step 3: Wrap the cake
- Cut dried banana leaves into squares or rectangles as you like
- Break the cake dough about 50g. Roll the dough again. Put the cake dough on a flat surface, use a rolling pin to roll the dough out
- Using a spoon, scoop the coconut filling on top of the dough
- Wrap the cake tightly so the filling doesn’t come out
- Mix by hand until all ingredients are used
- Brush a layer of cooking oil evenly around the surface of the cake
- Sprinkle a little white sesame on the surface of the cake
- Shape the banana leaf into a funnel shape
- Put each cookie dough into a banana leaf, cover the cake
Step 4: Steam the cake
- Put the cake into the basket and steam the cake for 30 minutes until it is cooked and enjoy
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4. How many calories are in cake? Eating a lot of crackers cause obesity?
To calculate how many calories in a cake, it must be based on the ingredients used by the manufacturer. Normally, a popular traditional gai cake that is sold a lot in the market will include ingredients such as: glutinous rice flour, green beans, white sesame, coconut fiber,… All the ingredients to make a A complete cake of spikes, they all contain a certain amount of calories. Specifically:
- 100g of glutinous rice will contain 300 calories. Glutinous rice to create a soft and smooth crust
- 100g green beans contain 328 calories
With the above ingredients, you can completely calculate the calories in a 100g gai cake that will include 40g of glutinous rice, 30g of green beans and 10g of white sugar. Estimated calories will be calculated using the following formula:
- 120 calories of glutinous rice + 98.4 calories of green beans + 39 calories of sugar = 257.4 calories. This amount of calories can increase depending on the dose and processing method of each person
Calculated, if you use a cake weighing 200-300g, the calories will be absorbed is 515-771 calories. So the question arises, “Does eating a lot of gai cake cause obesity?”.
On average, an adult needs 2,000 calories per day. Calculated, each meal will need about 667 calories. One hemp cake will provide about 300 calories. This amount of calories is not enough for a meal and eating gai cake does not cause weight gain.
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5. Conclude
Above is the entire article detailing 2 ways to make traditional Northern gai cake that Dry Food has shared with readers. A famous specialty cake of Vietnam that you can absolutely enjoy for breakfast or dinner. Hopefully, the above detailed gai cake recipe will help housewives add a delicious and quality dish for this summer day. Wish you always success!
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