Pork buns, layered steamed cake with pandan and coconut

Bánh da lợn, steamed pandan coconut layer cake

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A dessert from Southern Vietnam: alternating layers of tapioca and coconut milk dough and green pandan dough, steamed, with an optional layer of mung bean…

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The pork cake, a soft and elastic multi-layered cake, is made with tapioca starch, sugar, coconut, and pandan. It is steamed, layer by layer, and then cut into diamond shapes.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time45 min
  • Resting1 hr
  • Total2 hr 15 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodsteam
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

8 people
  • $10.21
  • $0.31
  • $2.30
  • $0.97

Optional: Layer of beans

  • $0.08

Directions

  1. Cut the pandan leaves, mix them with a bowl of water, and press to extract the juice. ≈ 8 min
  2. White dough: In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, 1/4 cup of coconut milk, and vanilla. ≈ 4 min
  3. Green dough: Mix a bowl of flour, a bowl of sugar, a bowl of pandan juice, cold water, the coloring agent, and a little baking soda, which prevents the color from bleeding. ≈ 4 min
  4. Bring the water from the steamer to a boil and heat a non-stick baking dish. ≈ 3 min
  5. Pour each layer, pour a layer of white batter, cook it until it is almost set, then pour a layer of green batter, and so on.
  6. Allow to cool completely before cutting.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 400 g of tapioca starch (equivalent to 2 bowls)
  • 400 g of sugar (2 cups)
  • 6 frozen pandan leaves
  • 1 bowl of water for the pandan
  • 400 ml of coconut milk
  • 1/6 of a teaspoon of vanilla
  • a few drops of green dye
  • 1/6 of a teaspoon of baking soda
  • 80 ml of cold water
  • 100 g of pre-cooked mung beans
  • 100 grams of sugar

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