Chung cake is considered a typical dish for the meal, the feast on the Tet holiday. However, to make the traditional Chung cake fresher and richer, today the Cooking section of Điện máy XANH wants to introduce you to 15 ways to make delicious and unique Chung dishes. Let’s get started right away.
1 Traditional Banh Chung
Traditional Banh Chung has long been known for its distinctive familiar flavor. The sticky rice part of the cake is soft, delicious, combined with the earthy taste from mung beans and a bit of rich fat from pork belly.
You can modify it by adding salted eggs or quail eggs to enhance the flavor.
2 Vegetarian Banh Chung
If you are someone who loves Banh Chung but is hesitant about fatty meat or simply a vegetarian who wants to enjoy the delicious taste of Banh Chung, then this vegetarian Banh Chung is completely suitable for you.
The soft sticky rice layer combined with the earthy mung bean layer adds the crunchiness of fried shallots. Indeed, it is an enticing dish, isn’t it? You can easily make it with the recipe from Dien May XANH.
3 Purple Sticky Rice Banh Chung
A different variation of traditional Banh Chung. The cake made has a special color and flavor from purple leaves combined with the earthy taste of mung beans and the rich flavor of fatty pork belly; you can enhance the attractiveness of the dish by serving it with pickled garlic or a bit of pickles.
Just hearing about it sounds appealing, right? You can use the recipe shared by Dien May XANH to make this dish.
4 Gac Banh Chung
The Gac Banh Chung dish features a prominent, eye-catching bright red color.
The outer layer of the cake is soft and fragrant. The sweet filling is wrapped with a hint of banana oil and the crunchiness from pumpkin jam. It will definitely make you excited as soon as you taste it!
5 Seafood Sticky Rice Cake
A unique twist with delicious and distinctive seafood sticky rice cake. This cake stands out with a filling made from seafood ingredients like salmon, shrimp, and crab sticks, bringing a fresh and appealing flavor. Do you like this cake? Try it in the kitchen and prepare it with the following recipe.
6 Colorful Sticky Rice Cake
With just a few simple steps, you can transform a plain sticky rice cake into a colorful one with many unique flavors.
The colorful sticky rice cake with corresponding colors of the five flavors brings the delicious taste from glutinous rice combined with the buttery flavor of mung beans and the rich taste of fatty pork. Each color will deliver a different flavor, making it unforgettable when you eat it.
7 Gù Sticky Rice Cake
Gù sticky rice cake is a specialty of Ha Giang with its unique shape yet offers many delicious flavors that rival other types of sticky rice cakes. Although the filling is not too different, the outer layer of the cake is enhanced with flavors and colors from the special leaves, giving the Gù sticky rice cake its distinctiveness.
Do you want to enjoy it? Let’s follow the recipe from Điện máy XANH to create this appealing dish.
8 Green Sticky Rice Cake
If you are a fan of sticky rice cake, you cannot miss this delicious green sticky rice cake. The aroma of green rice combined with glutinous rice gives a slightly sweet taste from mung beans and a rich fatness from the pork belly. This cake will enrich your Tet meal.
9 Brown Rice Sticky Cake
If you enjoy dishes made from brown rice or just want to refresh your Tet menu, then this brown rice sticky cake is a perfect choice.
The cake’s skin has the distinctive color and flavor of brown rice and glutinous rice, combined with ingredients like pork belly, shiitake mushrooms, snow mushrooms, lotus seeds, etc., making it both fluffy and rich. It can leave you mesmerized with the first bite.
10 Green Bean Flower Sticky Rice Cake
If you are a fan of colors or unique new dishes, then this green bean flower sticky rice cake might just delight you. The cake’s outer layer has a light green color from the green beans, while the filling offers a sweet, rich, and fatty taste from mung beans and pork belly. This will be a promising dish for your Tet celebration.
11 Long Sticky Rice Cake
The long sticky rice cake is a fairly famous specialty that often appears during the Lunar New Year among the people of the Mekong Delta. As the name suggests, the long sticky rice cake is not square like the traditional sticky rice cake, but has a long cylindrical shape like the Tet cake.
The filling usually consists of meat and mung beans depending on each family’s preference, wrapped in a layer of soft, fragrant sticky rice. This dish is wonderfully paired with pickled bulb onions, pickled shallots, or pickled white radish!
12 Black Sticky Rice Cake
The black sticky rice cake is known as one of the unique specialties that cannot be missed during Tet among the Tay ethnic group in Bac Son district, Lang Son.
Due to the use of a special ingredient, which is rice straw ash, the cake will have a distinctive black color along with a fragrant smell, sweet taste, and soft texture. The filling of smooth, nutty mung beans combined with the rich flavor of fatty pork is extremely delicious.
13 Sticky Rice Cake with Shrimp Filling
If you are too familiar with traditional sticky rice cake, then try to enrich your family’s Tet menu with the unique and new sticky rice cake with shrimp filling!
The sticky rice cake after boiling has a soft and fragrant layer of sticky rice outside, while the shrimp inside retains its moisture and natural sweetness, and it tastes great when eaten with pickled shallots!
14 Sticky Rice Cake with Salmon
Besides sticky rice cake with shrimp, you can also try making sticky rice cake with salmon to impress your relatives and friends this Tet!
The cake after completion has the beautiful green color of dong leaves, with fragrant and chewy sticky rice, the creamy and sweet flavor of salmon combined with the earthy taste of mung beans is extremely appealing.
15 Fried Sticky Rice Cake
Fried sticky rice cake is perhaps an effective “lifesaver” method for families when they accidentally prepare too many sticky rice cakes before Tet.
Fried sticky rice cake has a crispy outer layer but still delivers the chewy texture of sticky rice inside, complemented by the sweet and earthy flavor from mung beans and the fragrant richness of pork. It promises to be a very appealing dish for the family.
You have explored 15 ways to make delicious and chewy bánh chưng that are perfect for the Lunar New Year! Hurry to the kitchen and show off your skills right away. Wishing you success.
