The Mid-Autumn Festival is a unique traditional festival that is rich in Vietnamese culture. So what dishes will you prepare for your family during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let’s refer to the Cooking Tips section of TasteVN for 20 delicious dishes to enjoy with your family!
1 Types of Mooncakes
Baked Mooncake
From a familiar traditional cake, the baked mooncake has a soft outer layer that is baked to a golden brown, with a fragrant aroma that is enticing.
Inside, it is filled with a savory, rich mixed filling, which now comes in various options such as: coconut milk filling, mung bean filling, vegetarian mixed filling, etc., for you to choose from.
With just familiar ingredients, you can easily create attractive baked mooncakes with beautiful shapes, perfect for enjoying with hot tea, surely a wonderful suggestion!
Sticky Mooncake
Unlike the rich, slightly crispy outer crust and the glossy brown color of traditional baked mooncakes, sticky mooncakes have a more eye-catching appearance, with bright, diverse colors that easily attract everyone’s affection.
The outer layer of the cake is sticky and smooth, perfectly combined with the rich filling inside, mixed with a bit of sweetness, creaminess, and an enticing aroma. The cake is made by hand without using an oven, making it definitely worth trying!
Mooncake with Jelly
Mooncake with jelly, a unique twist on the traditional cake, has a pleasantly sweet flavor without being overly intense, and boasts eye-catching colors, especially loved by young people.
The main ingredients that create this delicious cake revolve around jelly powder, coconut milk, and a blend of natural colors for a basic mooncake with jelly. If you like, you can also combine it with whipping cream, fresh fruits, and various vegetables, etc.
Each type of cake offers a distinct delicious flavor that is hard to confuse with any other type of cake, ensuring you will love it!
2Dishes from taro
Taro soup
Taro is a tuber with a rich flavor, sweet aftertaste, and a soft, sticky texture, suitable for soup dishes. Taro soup with bone broth, dried shrimp taro soup, minced meat taro soup,.. all are delicious dishes you can prepare for your family to enjoy.
The soup has a light sweet taste, seasoned just right, and served with white rice, surely it will evoke a cozy family atmosphere during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival!
Steamed Snails
Simply like steamed dishes, it is enough to evoke the delicious taste of fresh snails in the most natural way, the sweet and light flavor, the chewy and crispy meat, along with a fragrant aroma that captivates anyone!
You can try making lemongrass steamed snails, spicy pepper steamed snails, sweet coconut water steamed snails, or snails with lemongrass and fish sauce,… All use easily found ingredients, plus quick cooking methods, and you will soon have a delicious dish.
Dipping it in a finely mashed lemongrass and chili sauce is the most authentic flavor!
7Floating Rice Cake
The full moon day of the 8th lunar month each year is more complete if you and your family gather together and personally prepare bowls of hot floating rice cake, with bright and beautiful colors. It’s a simple way to evoke the long-standing traditional culture of the Vietnamese people.
The floating rice cake is round and even, with a soft, thin, and smooth outer layer, enveloping a rich mung bean filling, immersed in a bowl of sweet syrup accompanied by roasted peanuts and a little bit of spicy ginger strips.
Nowadays, you can use your favorite vegetables such as taro, sweet potato, pumpkin, pandan leaves, etc., to create the most natural colors and flavors for the dessert to be even more delicious!
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Hopefully, with the 20 traditional Mid-Autumn dishes compiled by TasteVN above, you can enjoy the reunion festival warmly with your family!
