Description
Traditional Vietnamese food for the New Year celebration.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups of glutinous rice
- 1 cup of mung beans
- 500g of pork belly
- 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- Banana leaves for wrapping
Instructions
- Soak glutinous rice and mung beans overnight.
- Steam the mung beans until soft.
- Mix pork belly with fish sauce and sugar.
- Layer rice, mung beans, and pork in a banana leaf.
- Wrap tightly and steam for 4 hours.
- Let it cool before slicing.
Notes
- Use fresh banana leaves for better flavor.
- Adjust seasoning to taste.
- Can be made a day in advance.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Steaming
- Cuisine: Vietnamese
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 400mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 15g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
Keywords: Vietnamese New Year food, traditional Vietnamese food