Since ancient times, the image of the banana tree has always been associated with the people of Vietnam. And it’s also rare for a plant to be so useful that all parts can be used like a banana. With the love of nature, the Tay people have cherished ingredients from bananas to form a typical delicious Luc Yen banana cake .
Lightly peel each layer of banana leaves, a golden color like honey gradually appears. The outside dough is a blend of banana flour and rice flour to create a unique adhesive. This banana powder is usually ripe bananas that are dried. When needing to pack cakes, the Tay people take them to soak them in water and grind them to create this exclusive powder.
The filling is a mixture of beans, sugar, and peanuts. The cake is made up of simple ingredients, but it’s surprisingly delicious. The poetry of Luc Yen banana cake is not only in the taste. But it is also a rustic, loving feeling when all ingredients come from inexpensive things, which are bananas. From the wrapping leaf or the lanyard is also encapsulated from the banana tree.
Banana cake is like an indispensable spiritual gift of Yen Bai people every time there is a festival. How many trays of high-class dishes are full, but they still have to add a portion of banana cake. As a gratitude when trying to promote the good house style from many generations and keep the purest flavor of the mountains and forests.
Source: Collected internet.
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