Banana sticky rice cake is one of the cake dishes that is very familiar to everyone, but have you known a more interesting variation of this cake with jackfruit? Let’s cook with TasteVN and learn how to make this familiar yet unusual jackfruit sticky rice cake!
1. Jackfruit sticky rice cake with mung bean filling
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Preparation
40 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Jackfruit sticky rice cake with mung bean filling For 20 pieces
Glutinous rice flour 150 gr Mung bean filling 300 gr Jackfruit 200 gr Candied pumpkin 100 gr Banana leaves a little Salt a little Cooking oil a little Filtered water 50 ml
How to choose delicious mung beans
- For whole mung beans, you should choose those that are uniformly colored, shiny, and have a natural fragrance.
- For peeled mung beans, you should choose those that are bright yellow, with uniform size and color.
- You should check by pressing your finger into the bean; if the bean is crispy, easily breaks but does not crumble, it is good mung bean.
- Avoid choosing beans with black spots, dull color, uneven sizes, musty smell, or strange odor.
- Especially avoid choosing beans that show signs of being eaten by termites or have many black specks.
Tools needed
Steamer, blender, pan, bowl, frying pan,…
How to make Bánh Ãt mÃt with mung bean filling
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Prepare and blend jackfruit
Jackfruit you buy should be separated into segments, remove the seeds and use a knife to cut into small pieces to make blending easier.
After cutting small, put the jackfruit into the blender with 50ml of water and blend the jackfruit until smooth so that the dough for the cake will be finer and more delicious!
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Mix the cake dough
After grinding the jackfruit until smooth, transfer it to a bowl, add a little salt, and 150g of glutinous rice flour, then knead thoroughly.
You should divide the 150g of glutinous rice flour into several portions to knead to avoid making the dough too dry or too wet.
Knead well for 7 – 10 minutes until the dough sticks together into a smooth, elastic mass. Then cover the dough tightly and let it rest for 10 minutes.
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Wrapping the cake
300g of mung bean filling, you should add 100g of pumpkin jam, mix well and roll into 20 balls of filling. The dough should also be divided into 20 equal parts to avoid having too little or too much dough.
Take each piece of dough and use your fingertip to flatten it, place the mung bean filling in the center, wrap it tightly around the filling and roll it into a ball.
Grease a banana leaf of about 20x30cm with a little cooking oil, place the ball of dough in the center, roll the leaf horizontally, then fold both ends vertically so that the ball is completely wrapped.
Secure the edge of the leaf underneath so the cake does not come apart. Then continue to wrap the remaining dough and mung bean filling.
How to make mung bean filling for Banh It:
- Soak 300g of peeled mung beans for 1 – 2 hours until expanded, then cook with 1 liter of filtered water.
- When the mung beans are soft, remove from heat, add 100g of sugar and blend until smooth with a blender.
- Pour the blended mung beans into a pan and stir-fry for about 20 minutes until thickened, add 100ml of coconut milk and continue to stir-fry until the mung beans form a solid block.
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Steaming the cake
After wrapping, prepare a steaming pot with boiling water and place the cake into the pot, cover it, and steam over medium heat for 15 minutes until the cake is cooked.
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Final product
Steamed bánh Ãt mÃt has a bright yellow color, fragrant with the smell of ripe jackfruit, while the mung bean filling is creamy combined with sweet and chewy pumpkin jam, creating a very unique taste. This will definitely be a wonderful cake for your whole family.
2. Bánh Ãt mÃt with coconut filling
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients for Bánh Ãt mÃt with coconut filling For 4 people
Glutinous rice flour 150 gr Jackfruit 200 gr Grated coconut 200 gr Tapioca flour 10 gr Sugar 100 gr Salt 1/2 teaspoon Banana leaves a little Cooking oil a little Filtered water a little
How to make Banh it mit with coconut filling
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Prepare and blend the jackfruit
200g of jackfruit, remove the seeds and chop it into small pieces, then put it into the blender. Add about 40ml of water, blend until smooth and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
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Mix the dough
Add 150g of glutinous rice flour into a large bowl, then add the blended jackfruit and knead well until the dough is smooth and has an even beautiful yellow color, cover tightly and let the dough rise for 15 minutes.
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Sauté the filling
Add 200g of grated coconut into a bowl with 100g of sugar, use a spoon to stir until the sugar dissolves, then put it in a pan to sauté over medium heat until all the moisture is gone.
Add 10g of tapioca flour into 1 tablespoon of water and stir well to dissolve the flour. When the coconut mixture has dried up, add the tapioca flour and sauté for 10 minutes until the coconut filling is dry.
Put the coconut filling on a plate to cool and shape into 10 evenly sized balls.
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Wrap the cake
Divide the dough into 10 small pieces, flatten each piece, then place a coconut filling ball in the center, gently mold the dough to completely enclose the filling.
Brush a little oil on the banana leaf, place the cake ball in the center, and roll the leaf vertically, folding both ends of the leaf to ensure the cake is tightly wrapped.
Finally, use a strip of banana leaf to tie the cake. Repeat the same process for the remaining dough and filling.
Tip:
- Briefly blanch the banana leaves in boiling water to make wrapping the cakes easier.
- When wrapping the cake, place the veins of the banana leaf inside so that the cake, after steaming, has vein patterns like jackfruit segments.
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Steam the cake
Add a little water to the steamer and boil the water on the stove for about 10 – 15 minutes.
Then, arrange the wrapped cakes evenly around the steamer and cover the lid to steam the cakes for 20 – 25 minutes, then turn off the heat and take the cakes out.
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Finished product
The Mi’t cake after completion has a beautiful yellow color. The outer layer of the cake is chewy and fragrant with the smell of jackfruit, very appealing. Inside, the coconut filling is sweet and not too much, providing an unforgettable taste for the taster.
How to choose delicious jackfruit
- Observe the sap on the fruit: Naturally ripe jackfruit, when cut open, usually has little or no white sap flowing out, while chemically ripened jackfruit does.
- Shape: Choose jackfruit that is uniform, without bulges or dents on the surface, as dented areas are often prone to pests, and have more fibers and toughness.
- Observe the jackfruit eyes and thorns: Young jackfruits often have green skin, sharp thorns, and the distance between thorns is usually close together. When you tap on the jackfruit’s body, it will sound solid.
- In contrast, natural jackfruit will have a soft body, large open eyes, sparse and not sharp thorns. Especially, you should pay attention to those fruits treated with chemicals to ripen, which will have hard, thick thorns, large open eyes while the outer skin still retains some green.
- Fragrance: Jackfruit that has been injected with chemicals will usually not have the fragrant smell like naturally ripened jackfruit.
- Taste test: Delicious jackfruit will have a sweet, rich flavor, while if it tastes bland, it indicates that the jackfruit has been chemically treated.
Tips for successfully making jackfruit cake
- The cake should be stored in a sealed container, placed in the refrigerator and can be used within 1 – 2 days.
- When steaming the cake, you should wrap an additional layer of cloth over the steamer lid to prevent steam from rising and dripping down, causing the cake to take longer to cook, resulting in a spongy texture and poor taste.
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So TasteVN has finished guiding two ways to make jackfruit sticky rice cakes that are extremely fragrant and attractive. Hopefully, through this article, you will learn about a familiar type of cake that has been transformed into something more delicious to make for your family and friends to enjoy! Wishing you success.
