Some delicious dishes for Cold Food Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month

Cold Food Festival is a special occasion of the year, taking place on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month. Traditionally, this is the day when people often eat cold food to remember their ancestors. In Vietnamese culture, the Cold Food Festival offering tray often cannot lack vegetarian banh troi and banh troi tau.

Besides those two traditional dishes, today many families also prepare refreshing, easy-to-eat dishes to enrich their holiday meals.

1. Five-color Vegetarian Floating Dish

One of the highlights is the five-color floating cake. The cake is made from sticky rice flour, colored with natural ingredients such as pandan leaves, turmeric, gac fruit, etc., creating an eye-catching appearance and a gentle flavor.

Prepare the glutinous rice flour and divide it into 5 parts. Use natural ingredients to create the color: gac fruit for red, turmeric for yellow, pandan leaves for green, purple amaranth leaves, and bamboo charcoal powder for black. Mix each color into the dough, knead well, then shape into small balls, put a rock sugar ball in the middle.

Cook the cake in boiling water until it floats. Remove and place in a bowl of cold water, then place on a plate, sprinkle with roasted white sesame seeds if desired.

2. Banh troi tau dish

Banh troi tau is also a popular dish thanks to its soft, chewy crust and fatty mung bean filling. It is eaten with warm ginger water to help balance the cold taste of other dishes.

This dish is usually served hot, in contrast to the typical "cold" dish, but still retains the spirit of frugality and spiritual significance of the holiday.

The glutinous rice flour is kneaded until soft, shaped into balls larger than banh troi chay, wrapped in a soft mung bean paste and rolled into balls. Boil sugar water with crushed ginger for fragrance. Boil the cake until it floats, then put it in the pot of ginger sugar water and cook for a few more minutes. When eating, sprinkle with roasted sesame seeds and shredded coconut to enhance the flavor.

3. Banh Cuon, Banh Muot, Banh Uot

In addition, banh cuon, banh muot or banh uot are also very suitable for Han Thuc Festival. These cakes are made from thinly spread rice flour, eaten cold with pork sausage and light fish sauce, bringing a light, cool feeling to the stomach.

Mix rice flour with water according to the instructions. Use a non-stick pan or a specialized steamer to make thin pancakes. When the pancakes are done, use chopsticks to take them out, roll them with minced meat and wood ear mushrooms (if you like), or eat them plain like banh muot. Serve with pork roll and sweet and sour fish sauce.

3. Types of tea

Teas such as green bean tea, sweet potato tea, lotus tea, etc. are also often available during this time. The sweet taste and coolness of tea help the body feel more comfortable during the first days of summer.

Coconut jelly

Depending on the type of sweet soup, choose the main ingredients such as green beans, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds... Boil the ingredients until soft, add rock sugar to taste. You can add coconut milk to increase the fatty taste.

Khuc Bach Tea

Grapefruit Tea

Sweet soup is often served cold or lukewarm on Cold Food Festival to keep the spirit of "eating cool food".

4. Do Cake

Another interesting dish is banh do – a traditional cake in some regions, made from sticky rice flour with sweet filling, small and cute in shape, symbolizing luck and peace.

Mix glutinous rice flour with warm water, knead well and wrap sweet mung bean filling inside. Shape the cake into round or long shape as desired. Steam the cake in a steamer. When cooled, the cake is soft and fragrant, easy to eat and can be stored for a long time on cool days.

Do Cake with Molasses Dip

The dishes during the Cold Food Festival are not only delicious but also imbued with national culture, helping to preserve the precious traditional values ​​of the Vietnamese people.

Source: https://baonghean.vn/mot-so-mon-an-ngon-tet-han-thuc-ngay-3-3-am-lich-10294137.html