When you think of Hue, what comes to mind? The peaceful Perfume River, the flowing purple ao dai, the gentle and simple people of Hue,… If you love Hue and care about Hue, then let’s explore the culinary culture of Hue through its diverse cakes in the Cooking Tips section of TasteVN! Let’s Get Cooking right away!
1Filter Cake
Filter Cake is currently being sold at many eateries and is certainly a very familiar dish to us. The small, lovely cake with a chewy, fragrant outer layer and a filling of crispy shrimp and delicious minced meat.
Drizzle a little scallion oil and sweet-sour fish sauce over it, and it’s simply delicious. Where does your taste lie among the 3 recipes below? Check them out and try cooking to see how it goes!
2Steamed Rice Cake
You will love the steamed rice cakes with a soft and smooth cake layer, filled with shrimp that is crispy, combined with fragrant and fatty scallion oil, enjoyed with sweet-sour fish sauce.
Or the steamed rice cakes in bowls with crispy fried bread, deliciously sautéed shrimp blended with scallion oil and pure white coconut milk, rich and creamy.
So, what is your true love? Refer to the 2 recipes below and get into the kitchen right away!
3Steamed Rice Dumpling
Steamed rice dumpling with a layer of rice flour that is soft and chewy, combined with finely ground red shrimp filling, looks very eye-catching and appealing. Take a piece of the dumpling, dip it into the bowl of sweet-sour fish sauce, and enjoy; it’s just addictive, making you forget the way back.
Discover the recipe for this type of cake right now with detailed steps and specific illustrative images in the recipe below!
4Hue Steamed Rice Cake
At first glance, the Hue steamed rice cakes immediately showcase their adorable appearance and the striking combination of colors. The cakes are round and soft, covered with a chewy white dough that encases a rich and nutritious mung bean filling.
Place the cake on a banana leaf, sprinkle a little scallion oil and fried shallots on top. Dip a piece in fish sauce, take a bite. A bit chewy, a bit rich. You must try it right away, right?
5Hue Rice Cake
“How many generations have rice cakes with bones, how many generations have stepmothers who love their stepchildren?” Whether the stepmother loves her stepchildren is uncertain, but the white, chewy rice cake must be tried at least once in your life!
Since the rice cake is made from rice flour, tapioca flour, and coconut milk, it is not only chewy but also rich. Sprinkle some minced meat and shrimp on top. Add a bowl of dipping sauce made with the perfect homemade recipe, and you have a delicious Hue rice cake meal. Let’s learn how to make it and get cooking!
6Ram It Cake
Ram it cake actually consists of both ram cake and steamed rice cake. The steamed rice cake has a soft, chewy dough, and the filling includes minced meat, shrimp, and finely chopped wood ear mushrooms, seasoned perfectly delicious.
Place a cute round rice cake on top of a crispy ram cake and put it in your mouth. The soft shrimp and meat filling contrasts with the crunchy wood ear mushrooms. Added to that is the chewy dough paired with the crispy layer of the ram cake.
Everything blends together to create a wonderfully delightful sensation in your mouth. If this is the first time you’ve heard of this dish, why not give it a try to find out!
7Wet cake with grilled meat
The wet cake layer is mixed in the right ratio, served with tender, sweet grilled pork loin, Vietnamese pork sausage that is chewy and crispy, along with some fresh herbs and bean sprouts. Just add a few tablespoons of fish sauce and you can enjoy it right away!
This must be a familiar breakfast dish for you since you were a child, right? If you’ve only eaten this dish at restaurants, why not try making yourself a plate of wet cake with grilled meat at home? Wish you success!
8Pressed cake
The soft cake layer is fried crispy but still retains its inherent chewiness, combined with rich chicken eggs. Roll the cake with a bit of shrimp and fragrant herbs and dip it in sweet and sour fish sauce for a truly enticing dish.
Refer to the recipe below with extremely simple steps to enjoy another cake from the dreamy Hue region!
9Fried pancake
Fried pancake with fish or fried fish pancake is a characteristic dish of Hue cuisine. If the main ingredients of the above cakes are shrimp and meat, then fish is one of the main ingredients to make this type of cake.
After processing the fish to remove the fishy smell, you fry it in a pan, pour the batter around the fish, and fry until the batter turns slightly golden. The crispy batter combined with the fresh fish has a slight bitterness from the fish’s innards. Adding some vegetables and dipping it in a bit of sweet and sour fish sauce, you have enjoyed a specialty dish of Hue!
Sounds really strange, right? Try making it once when you have the chance and share with TasteVN about the unique flavor of this dish!
10Sour shrimp rice rolls
The chewy rice noodles maintain enough moisture combined with delicious fatty pork, sour shrimp that is crunchy and bouncy, along with fresh vegetables. All of these are wrapped in a thin white rice paper. Dip it into sweet and sour fish sauce with a hint of warm ginger aroma and a bit of fresh chili for a spicy kick.
Change up your daily meal once with this appealing and delicious sour shrimp rice roll dish! You won’t regret it!
11Hue steamed cake
Hue steamed cake has been considered a royal delicacy since ancient times, favored by the aristocracy of the imperial court. Nowadays, this cake often appears on the offerings of people from Hue, or is enjoyed by the elderly along with a cup of bitter and astringent tea in the morning.
To make a Hue steamed cake, the baker must go through many steps, from steaming mung beans at the right temperature to mixing flour in the right proportions to create beautifully shaped cakes.
The cake has a chewy layer, accompanied by the nutty, fragrant taste of mung beans mixed with the refreshing aroma of fresh pandan leaves. Take a moment to sit with your family, bite into a piece of cake, sip some light tea, and reminisce about the past. In this hectic and bustling life, dedicating a moment of tranquility for yourself is a good thing, isn’t it?
12Fruit mung bean cake
If you are feeling bored with daily cooking, try this fruit mung bean cake recipe and see how it goes!
In addition to the simple steps, the process of making this cake also allows you to unleash your creativity by shaping the rich and nutty mung bean filling into different forms and coloring them.
After dipping the cake into the melted jelly layer, you can immediately enjoy the cake with its eye-catching colors and a chewy, rich flavor!
13Hue’s Phu The Cake
Hue’s Phu The cake has an outer layer made from pandan leaves, which is both chewy and fragrant. The cake’s filling consists of sweet mung beans and lotus seeds that are finely ground, mixed with some crunchy coconut strands.
This is not only a specialty of Hue, but this type of cake is also considered a distinctive treat for the Vietnamese people, especially during weddings. Test your baking skills with the two recipes below!
14Hue’s Cassava Cake
This is certainly a familiar cake from our childhood, with a rich red bean filling and a soft, chewy outer layer. The colors are not only eye-catching, but the flavor of the cake is also incredibly appealing.
Revisiting the sweet, nostalgic childhood through making and enjoying Hue’s cassava cake is also an interesting choice, isn’t it?
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Hope that with 14 ways to make Huế cakes that TasteVN introduces to you, you will add delicious and easy-to-make cakes to your cookbook! Wishing you success!
