As a treat full of childhood memories for the people of Hanoi, bánh cốm Lang Vong Hanoi has long become a famous specialty that anyone visiting the capital wants to taste. If you want to learn about this special, elegant cultural feature of Hanoi people, let's explore it through the article below.
Hanoi's autumn is beautiful with cool breezes, mixed with the faint scent of new com. Everything creates a gentle and poetic scene of Hanoi that seems to linger in the memories of every Ha Thanh person. Coming to Hanoi on cool, nostalgic autumn days, try stopping by a small shop to enjoy these Lang Vong Hanoi com cake still fragrant, chewy and sweet with the smell of new com.
According to legend, during the reign of King Ly Thai To when he moved the capital to Thang Long, one year the rice fields in Vong village were heavily flooded, causing everything to be submerged in water. The fields in the rice season were flattened under the water.
All the people faced difficulties and shortages. However, while almost everyone was panicked and afraid, a young man sacrificed himself to cut the young rice grains filled with milk under the floodwaters to bring back to roast and pound for his elderly mother.
The young glutinous rice grains were roasted dry and pounded by hand. Then they were carefully sifted, revealing chewy, nutty, and fragrant com grains. This method was later passed down by the people, and from there, the famous Lang Vong Hanoi com cake was born.
With creativity, intelligence, and the diligent, skillful hands of the people here, many specialties have been created from com grains such as: Com sticky rice, com sweet soup, com nuggets.... In 1865, Mr. Nguyen Ninh – the father of com cake, created the first Hanoi com cakes. Since then, Lang Vong Hanoi com cake has become a characteristic and favorite dish of many people.
Coming to Hanoi, you cannot miss the delicious, famous Bao Minh com cake, a famous brand that has affirmed its high position in the hearts of many diners. Bao Minh com cake has also become a quite popular specialty of the capital due to its characteristic and traditional taste Lang Vong Hanoi com cake.
Bao Minh com cake is processed according to a traditional recipe along with elaborate stages to create a special flavor unlike other types of com cakes on the market while still retaining the standard taste of the ancient Lang Vong Hanoi com cake. From selecting ingredients to processing, everything is done meticulously and carefully. Bao Minh applies a sterile closed production line, ensuring food hygiene and safety along with high technology, so the shelf life of Bao Minh com cake is up to 12 days.
After buying, you should store the com cake at normal room temperature. Leaving the cake in too hot a place can make it spoil quickly. Putting it in the refrigerator may make the cake hard, and it will no longer taste as it did originally.
Currently, it is not difficult to buy Bao Minh com cake products on the market. The company's products have been covered throughout supermarket systems, distributors, and large and small grocery stores across the country such as BigC, WinMart, Lotte, Aeon... Besides, Bao Minh products are also available on all e-commerce platforms today such as Shopee, Tiki, Lazada, Sendo...
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Step 1: Prepare the ingredients
Dried Com: 300 grams
Peeled green beans: 50 grams
Granulated sugar: 80 grams
Glutinous rice flour: 3 tablespoons
Cooking oil
Pandan leaves (sticky rice leaves): 20 grams
Pomelo essential oil
Step 2: Soak the com with pandan leaf water
Cut the pandan leaves (sticky rice leaves) into small pieces, put them into a blender, and blend until smooth with about 100 ml of filtered water. Next, filter the blended pandan leaf mixture through a sieve to get the extract.
Sift the com grains through a sieve and pick out gravel and, black grains. Next, rinse with warm water and soak with the pandan leaf extract for about 1 hour.
Step 3: Make the green bean filling
Put the soaked, soft green beans into a pot and cook until soft. Wait for the beans to cool down a bit, then blend until smooth. Next, put the finely blended beans into a non-stick pan with 50 grams of sugar and sticky rice flour, and stir well. Stir-fry the mixture over low heat until the beans are smooth, chewy, and stick together. Finally, add a few drops of pomelo essential oil and stir-fry for about 2 – 3 minutes.
Step 4: Make the Hanoi com cake crust
Boil 300ml of filtered water with the remaining 30 grams of sugar. Then add the com soaked in pandan leaf water earlier and cook together. Stir evenly while cooking until the com dissolves completely, then turn off the heat.
Step 5: Wrap the cake
Wait for the com mixture to cool completely, then proceed to wrap the cake. Spread out a layer of nylon, brush a thin layer of cooking oil on the surface of the nylon and the spoon. Then, scoop the com onto the nylon sheet, then add the stir-fried green bean filling on top. Finally, cover with another layer of com to cover the green bean filling, then wrap the cake tightly.
Finished product
With just a few simple processing steps, you have delicious green bean-filled com cakes. The cake with the soft, chewy com and sticky rice, along with the nutty green bean filling fragrant with the scent of pomelo essential oil, is extremely attractive.
After making, the com cake can be stored for about 3 – 4 days.
Note
To buy delicious com, you should choose thin, flat, and firm com grains. When tasting, you will feel the nutty, chewy taste along with the characteristic aroma of com. In addition, note that good com usually has a natural green color like young banana leaves. Note that early morning is the most suitable time to buy good com.
To make the green bean filling of the cake delicious, you need to choose quality peeled green beans. The beans should be bright yellow, uniform in size, and not have weevils, mold, or unpleasant odors.
Choose pandan leaves that are medium-aged, fresh green, and not wilted or yellow. Do not choose leaves that are too old because they will be bitter when cooked. If you choose leaves that are too young, they will not have much fragrance and will produce an unattractive green color.
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Coming to Hanoi, you cannot miss tasting the flavor of com cake from Bao Minh brand – one of the long-standing traditional confectionery brands famous in Ha Thanh. With the standard taste of Lang Vong Hanoi com cake, Bao Minh com cake is always highly appreciated by many customers for both its taste and product quality.
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