Đặc sản ẩm thực ngày tết của người Cao Lan vùng Tây Yên Tử

Tet is coming. Spring comes. In the spring travel luggage there is a trip to the North with West Yen Tu. In the seemingly endless green of spring sky. Blue sky, forest blue, mountain green. Up to the North, immense hills of lychee flowers with white flowers like pearls, fragrant scents spreading throughout the sky. Here, the mysterious Suoi Mo landscape with the legend of Que My Nuong invites, and then back up to Tu Ha temple and Am Trai pagoda; spreading his heart with Khuon Than Lake and the immense, romantic Cam Son lake ... The whole Spring region. The place where ethnic minorities live, each land name and village name contains many cultural sediments. During the trip to the opposite forest and mountains, we have the opportunity to visit the Cao Lan compatriots in Luc Son (Luc Nam), Do Gia (Luc Ngan) or Yen Dinh, An Ba (Son Dong) in the West of Yen Tu for one visit. witnessing and attending the opening ceremony of the early spring mortar, or the unique opening ceremony of the forest; mingle with top-class boys and girls in Singing Sing song to call you. Coming here on this occasion, you will have the opportunity to enjoy delicious dishes in the cuisine of the New Year of the nation, always sincere and hospitable. Certainly, the image and special aftertaste of culinary dishes with iridescent sticky rice, squeezed shoulder cakes of Cao Lan people will not be easily forgotten.

In the northern highland fair, held at the 2013 Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture, at the showroom of Bac Giang province, not only lychee honey was available; Chu noodles; Ke cake; Deo Gia green lim mushroom; Tang Tien rattan and bamboo rattan products, the sticky egg specialties of Cao Lan compatriots in Deo Gia, have attracted thousands of domestic and foreign visitors, including many reporters, newspapers and magazines. by the unique, unique food of this special cuisine. The uniqueness of the product includes manipulated materials, carefulness and ingenuity of the performers. Regarding raw materials, we have to find and get brass leaves from July to October, when the leaves are old enough. Brass leaves filtered to get water will be purple. Green is taken from the leaves of the ginger tree; red is obtained from the leaves of rosewood or purplish; while yellow is derived from turmeric or gardenia (similar to the color of Dong Ho painting). For each kind of leaves, fruits, tubers are thoroughly crushed, filtered to get solid water to use. Particularly the white is the fragrant sticky rice of Phi Dien sticky rice bowl. Each part of rice is soaked separately with each type of water to infuse, in about 3 hours of soup (about 6-7 hours), then put in the pan to make sticky rice, When the sticky rice is cooked into the existing mold. Scrambled into each cell in the mold with 5 separate colors. 5 colors are usually: Red, black, white, yellow, blue (or purple). The colors symbolize the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. Folk said that enjoying the five-colored sticky rice is the five happy life If the cake mold is as big as a tray, you can decorate pictures and braille, with Chinese characters or Vietnamese characters.

For the Cao Lan people, during Tet days, it is impossible not to have bread on their ancestral altars. In the spring time, playing festivals, shoulder roll cake is considered as a convenient item for young men and women from long distance to sing and love. To make this type of cake, ingredients include glutinous rice, green beans, sugar, mugwort and banana leaves (also using leaf train), which are inherently available. Glutinous rice still has to be the famous delicious Dien Dien sticky rice, finely chopped ... Wormwood is boiled with lime water to reduce acrid taste, crushed bitter, mixed with glutinous flour. Cakes are made by holding balls, in the middle for sugar, fillings and green beans. Use a banana leaf train that has been panned to prevent tearing. Banh chung has two packs squeezed to the sides into a cake, and then boiled in water for about 2 hours is cooked. Bread picked out, drain. The cake is made into two separate parts at the ends, between tightening, can squeeze shoulders to go around so people called Cast shoulders. Spring seemed to be so close to the joy of youth before the coming of the Lunar New Year.