Posts tagged banh tet
Vietnamese Fermented Dried Daikon in Fish Sauce (Dưa Món)

This side dish is commonly eaten with banh tet or its square-shaped version, banh chung, during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration (tet). This recipe makes 2 cups.

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Vietnamese Savory Glutinous Rice Cakes with Pork Belly & Mung Beans for Lunar New Year (Banh Tet)

Bánh Tét is Vietnamese savory glutinous rice cakes filled with pork belly and mung beans, wrapped in banana leaves. It’s the quintessential Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tét) food. You better have these around for Tét or else you fail as a Vietnamese adult.

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Mooncake with Sweet Lotus Paste (Banh Trung Thu Nhan Hat Sen)

Mooncakes are round or square pastries with various savory and sweet filings. Typical mooncake fillings include different sweet pastes, mixed nuts and salted egg yolks. The pastes are typically sweetened lotus seed paste, red bean paste, black sesame paste and mung bean pastes. Before going into the oven to bake, the mooncakes are molded and stamped with an elaborate designs, usually a Chinese characters expressing good will, flowers or a simple beautiful geometric pattern.

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