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Steamed layer cake from Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bánh da lợn, bánh da heo (lit. 'pig skin cake'),[lower-alpha 1] or bánh chín tầng mây (lit. 'nine-layer cloud cake') is a Vietnamese steamed layer cake made from tapioca starch, rice flour, mashed mung beans, taro, or durian, coconut milk and/or water, and sugar. It is sweet and gelatinously soft in texture, with thin (approximately 1 cm) colored layers alternating with layers of mung bean, durian, or taro filling.
Type | Layer cake |
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Course | Snack, dessert |
Place of origin | South Vietnam |
Region or state | Southeast Asia |
Main ingredients | Rice flour, tapioca starch, mung beans, taro or durian, coconut milk or water, sugar |
Similar dishes | Kuih lapis, Kutsinta |
Typical versions of bánh da lợn may feature the following ingredients:
In modern cooking, artificial food coloring is sometimes used in place of the vegetable coloring.
Kuih lapis, which is made in Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as the Thai khanom chan, are similar to bánh da lợn. In the Philippines, a similar dessert and variant of kutsinta is simply called Vietnamese kutsinta and the Khmer of Cambodia call it num chak chan (នំចាក់ចាន់).
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