BLOG #39 : CỐM CAKE

Long ago, ''cốm'' cake has become a famous specialty of Hanoi everyone knows, indispensable in the wedding occasions, death anniversary and is a favorite gift of visitors.

Ingredients for green cốm cake :

• A little pineapple leaves

• Green beans steamed puree
  

• sugar, grapefruit juice

• Cốm
  

• flour

• coconut

How to make cốm cake :

• Green beans soaked in soft water for 3 hours, steamed with grapefruit juice. Place the beans in a blender with a little water and 30 gr of sugar (puree )
  Put cốm into the basket under the hot water for cốm clean dust. Put cốm in the bowl for cold water..Let cốm bloom for about 1 hour - 1 hour 30 minutes.

• Add 200 ml of water to the pot along with sugar to dissolve the sugar,When the sugar has dissolved,Mix cốm with sugar. keep stirring constantly.
  

• Squeeze the 'cốm' into square and thin

• green beans boiled. And crushed. Mix with coconut (This is the kernel of the cake)

• Put green beans and coconuts on the 'cốm'
  

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