Soc Trang has many dishes that are very attractive to customers, in which it is impossible not to enjoy the famous Congcake.
According to a reporter from the local Soc Trang, the name of this cake is said to come from the baking tools that are the culverts (some callers cork) of metal such as aluminum, tin used to fried (fried) cakes.
To make a delicious Congcake, the ingredients of the rice cake are delicious non-glutinous rice, soaked for 2 nights and then ground to get the flour.
The cake is made up of a mixture of green beans that have just cooked to still keep the seeds, fresh shrimp so that the whole meat has been steamed, and minced meat, add fried purple onion and then mixed with eggs.
After completing the preparation and preliminary processing stages of ingredients and enough tools, the housewife begins to fry the cake.
First of all, put ingredients into the drain in order of several tablespoons of flour mixture, green beans, a layer of stir-fried meat, add another layer of flour and finally coat one or two shrimp on the face. Then put the drain in the pan of boiling oil and wait 2-3 minutes for the cake to cook.
Next, take the cake out and drop it in the oil pan again, so the golden part of the cake sinks in the drain until the golden color is picked up. At that time, the cake is big, golden, and fragrant.
The dipping sauce for the pastry is also quite elaborate. Fish sauce must be an anchovy fish sauce mixed with a special recipe, accompanied by white radish, chopped carrots, mixed with lemon or vinegar to make the sauce taste sour, characteristic sweet.
Dumplings are served with raw vegetables such as broccoli, lettuce, cabbage, basil, fish lettuce, …
When eating, diners can cut the cake into many pieces for easy eating. Put the cake in a few layers of vegetables, then roll it up and add fish sauce and enjoy. At this time, the crunchy taste of the outer crust, the fat, the pulp of the cake will make diners taste delicious while eating.
In Soc Trang nowadays, there are many places with truffles, but for gourmets, they will definitely go to Dai Tam commune (My Xuyen district) because this is considered the “hometown” of famous Cong cakes.
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