How to make delicious and easy banh gio at home

Hot pork rice cake is best eaten in the cold season. Making rice cake at home is not too complicated, you can do it yourself today.

Ingredients for making hot rice cake

Chicken broth or bone broth

Minced pork, quail eggs

Rice flour, tapioca starch

Shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, onions, shallots, garlic, banana leaves

Pepper, cooking oil, salt, oyster sauce.

Mix tapioca starch, rice flour and a little salt together. Note that the amount of tapioca starch is less than the amount of rice flour so that the cake has a moderate softness. Sift the flour and mix it into chicken broth or bone broth (this will make the cake crust more fatty, the cake more delicious and flavorful). Soak the flour for about 1 hour.

Place the pot of flour mixture on the stove, initially on high heat, stirring continuously with a whisk (the whisk will make the mixture more even and smooth than using chopsticks). Lower the heat when the mixture starts to steam. Continue stirring the flour thoroughly, until the mixture thickens and begins to change color, then lower the heat to the lowest setting. When the flour is cooked, the mixture will thicken, add a little cooking oil to make the crust smooth and shiny. Stir well and turn off the heat.

The success of the dough making stage determines the deliciousness of the cake.

2. Stir-fry the filling

Saute minced garlic, onion, and shallots with a little cooking oil. Add minced pork and stir-fry. When the meat is almost cooked, add soaked and chopped shiitake mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms. Season with salt and oyster sauce and continue to stir-fry until the ingredients are cooked, then turn off the heat and sprinkle a little pepper to make the filling more fragrant.

3. Prepare banana leaves

Remove the veins from the banana leaves, wash them and cut them into small and large squares. Blanch them in boiling water to clean and soften the leaves. Spread a layer of plastic wrap on the table and place the banana leaves on top. Large leaves on the outside, small leaves on the inside. Fold the leaves in half to form a triangle. Continue to fold them into smaller triangles. Fold one corner of the leaf back to form a funnel.

4. Wrap and steam the rice cake

Scoop 1 spoon of dough into the funnel and spread it evenly, then add the stir-fried filling mixture and boiled quail eggs in the middle. Scoop another spoon of dough over the filling and spread it evenly. You can dip the spoon in a bowl of cooking oil to make it easier to spread the dough. Wrap the cake, tie it with a string to make it more secure, then put it in the steamer and steam for about 30 minutes. The steaming time depends on the size of the cake.

The pyramid-shaped banh gio has a soft, smooth, glossy crust and a faint scent of banana leaves. The filling has a rich, sweet meat flavor, with a hint of shiitake mushrooms and pepper. Hot banh gio served with ham or sweet and sour pickles, sprinkled with fragrant fried onions on top will be a quality snack for your family.

According to VTC