Coconut Banana Cake – Eat Best Food in Tien Giang

Tien Giang coconut banana cake (chuoi quet dua) with delicious taste is an attractive dish for those who are passionate about culinary discovery. What is more wonderful than being able to explore famous attractions and enjoy unique specialties in the Tien Giang travel itinerary?

By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | Official My Tho Visitor Guide

Table of Contents

1. Better to Know as a Food Lover

2. Better to Know Coconut Banana Cake

3. Coconut Banana Cake in My Tho

4. How to Make Coconut Banana Cake

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1. Better to Know as a Food Lover

Find them: My Tho city.

Best time: Dusk-Dawn

Don’t miss: Coconut Banana Cake

Local’s pick: Coconut Banana Cake small restaurant

Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in My Tho

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Facts: The combination of bananas and coconut, which seemed to only appear in sweet dishes, can also be processed into a dish commonly found in the daily tray of rice of sincere villagers. In the upcoming Tien Giang travel itinerary, if you want to fully explore the idyllic lifestyle of this place and transform into a real gardener, you must once enjoy this special and attractive dish

2. Better to Know Coconut Banana Cake

On the journey back to the countryside of Tien Giang, you will surely have the opportunity to see banana trees growing everywhere. It is not only an attractive local gift, nut the banana is also a plant associated with historical years and appears in the culture of the community living around the Mekong Delta.

Therefore, in the cuisine of Tien Giang in particular and the entire Western region in general, you can easily see the presence of bananas in every dish. Famous dishes that have always attracted many people can be mentioned such as fried bananas, grilled glutinous bananas, baked bananas, banana cakes, fried bananas with coconut, sugared sweets, stir-fried ginger, banana tea, etc. And it would be a mistake to ignore Tien Giang's Banana with Coconut, a dish with a unique, delicious, greasy taste of this peaceful countryside.

For the people of this countryside, Tien Giang Coconut Banana cake is not only a snack they often take out to sip in their spare time, it is also a dish that fills the stomach and is extremely suitable to enjoy on sunny days. pouring rain. Meanwhile, for friends from far away, this is the dish that makes many people curious to taste after fully enjoying the specialties of this land.

3. Coconut Banana Cake in My Tho

In fact, the word "Quet" in the language of the people of the local means pounding, then mixing the ingredients together. It sounds simple at first, but to be able to process a standard batch of Banana with Coconut Coconut in Tien Giang is not simple at all. This specialty requires the chef to have ingenuity, meticulousness and experience to cook it so that it is delicious and true to the original flavor of the dish.

In order to be able to process the standard Tien Giang Banana with Coconut, the chef must be very careful right from the first step, choosing the ingredients. Bananas used to prepare this specialty must be old ripe green porcelain bananas but still ensure the toughness with a round body and a round peel. To make the dish more delicious, many chefs also take advantage of the shredded coconut meat to add sweetness and succulence.

After being brought back, bananas will be soaked in filtered water to release the latex, then boiled with the peels. After the banana is ripe, the chef will separate the skin to cool, and the meat will be pureed, then mixed with grated coconut, added a little salt, sugar and pounded in a stone mortar. At this time, the natural fat of the coconut rice will blend harmoniously with the banana meat, creating the distinctive sweet and fatty flavor of this dish.

During the process of pounding bananas, the chef must constantly adjust the strength of his hands so that the bananas when pounding are not too fine, but still ensure that they are mixed with other ingredients. At this time, the chef will pound continuously until the coconut banana mixture thickens, the spices penetrate evenly, then stop, then put the dish on a plate, sprinkle little crushed roasted peanuts on top to make it bold. more taste.

At first hearing the name Banana with coconut in Tien Giang, people will often misunderstand this as a sweet dish. However, that is not the case. Tien Giang people often use bananas with coconut sauce with fish sauce, raw vegetables, sounds very strange and arrogant, right? However, if anyone has been lucky enough to have the opportunity to enjoy it, they will realize that this paradox turns out to bring a unique flavor that can't be found anywhere else.

Usually, Westerners will eat banana with coconut with raw vegetables such as spinach, bay leaves, lettuce, herbs, basil, rolled with rice paper and then dipped in a cup of sour fish sauce. sweet. The fish sauce part also requires that it be prepared with enough lemon, garlic, chili, and a little coconut milk to get a sweet and sour taste that is just right. Usually, people will pack rice paper with herbs, then pick up a piece of banana with coconut and put it on top of raw vegetables, then roll it up so that it is square and then dip it into a cup of sweet and sour fish sauce.

According to many friends, the first moment you take a big bite, you will immediately feel the full flavor of sweet, fragrant, sour and even the characteristic of chopped chili. It all blends together in a strange way, making every flavor layer like dancing in the mouth. Thanks to raw vegetables, the dish also becomes more balanced and complete, not overwhelmed by the greasy taste of coconut water and bananas or the spiciness of chopped chili. It is this that makes diners when they have the opportunity to enjoy them, admiring praise and constantly picking up their hands.

4. How to Make Coconut Banana Cake

Prepare materials

Green banana 500-600gr (about 5-6 fruits)

Grated coconut 200gr

Roasted peanuts 40-50g

Spices White salt, diameter

How to make banana coconut cake

Boil green banana

You wash 5-6 green bananas with water and then put them in the pot. Pour water to cover the bananas, then turn on the stove, boil the bananas on medium heat for about 5-7 minutes.

After boiling, you take out the banana, rinse it with water to reduce the heat, and then peel the banana.

Crushed bananas

You put the boiled banana in the mortar and pound it. When the bananas begin to mash, add in the mortar 2-3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of salt and about 2/3 of the prepared coconut fiber. Continue pounding until the banana is completely pureed. You can also wear gloves and knead the bananas with the ingredients.

Next, you pound the prepared roasted peanuts. Finally, put the mashed banana on a plate, sprinkle with the remaining coconut fiber and roasted peanuts and enjoy!

5. Pro tips:

Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.

Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you're eating hot street food, it's always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.

Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.

Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.

If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.

Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.

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