The culinary website Taste Atlas has selected 100 of the best coconut-based dishes in the world, with five dishes from Vietnam making the list.
Leading the list of Vietnamese coconut dishes is pomelo sweet soup. This dessert is made from a mixture of pomelo peel, mung beans, and, of course, coconut milk. The green pomelo peel is removed, and the spongy white part is used as the main ingredient. It is diced, salted, soaked in water, rinsed, boiled, and mixed with sugar and tapioca starch.
The mixture is then combined with steamed mung beans, water, coconut milk, and sugar until it thickens. This dessert is especially popular during the summer.
Cake dish
Another dish on the list is beef cake, a traditional Vietnamese sponge cake with a coconut flavor made from fermented batter. There are several varieties of cake depending on its shape, ingredients, and preparation method, but all share a unique spongy texture, which is why they are sometimes called honeycomb cakes.
Banh Bo can be baked or steamed and is often dyed using natural colorants. The base is typically made from rice flour or tapioca flour. However, no one seems to know why the cake is named banh bo (cow cake).
Next is roasted coconut rice and shrimp, a dish originating from Ben Tre. It consists of rice steamed inside a coconut, coconut water, and additional ingredients such as carrots, onions, lotus seeds, and peas, served with fried shrimp.
Banh Phu The, a traditional Vietnamese dessert, is made from tapioca flour and mung beans. Other ingredients include sugar, shredded coconut, and pandan leaves. Visually appealing, the dessert has a translucent green color in its original version.
The final dish is pandan leaf sandwich, a traditional pandan waffle originating from Vietnam. These pandan waffles are made from a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, tapioca flour, coconut milk, baking powder, and pandan extract. The pandan gives the waffles their green color and distinctive fragrance.
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Source: Vietnam Insider