5 Mouthwatering Recipes for Vietnamese Pork Skin Cake

Although not from the Western region, many people are familiar with Vietnamese pork skin cake. Its unique layers, resembling pig skin, gave rise to its distinctive name. This is a familiar, rustic cake but incredibly enticing. Moreover, this dish also has various preparation methods. In this article, Mytour Blog will guide you through the 5 simplest recipes that anyone can easily make at home.

How to Make Pandan Pork Skin Cake with Mung Bean and Pineapple Leaves

Ingredients

Green Layer:

• Pandan Water: 100ml
• Coconut Milk: 50g
• Cornstarch: 100g
• Rice Flour: 10g
• Seasonings: 1 teaspoon salt, 50g caster sugar 

White Layer:

• Coconut Milk: 50g
• Cornstarch: 110g
• Rice Flour: 15g
• Filtered Water: 100ml
• Seasonings: 1 teaspoon salt, 50g caster sugar 

Mung Bean Filling:

• Filtered Water: 400ml
• Cleaned and peeled mung beans: 100g
• Cornstarch: 50g
• Coconut Milk: 200ml
• Seasonings: 40g sugar, 1 teaspoon salt
• Blender, strainer

Steps to Prepare

• Step 1: With the prepared mung beans, wash them thoroughly, then cook in filtered water until boiling. Wait until the beans are soft, then use a spoon to mash them.
• Step 2: Next, add sugar and salt to a pot, as per the specified amount, then stir over low heat until the mixture is even. Turn off the heat, let the mung beans cool, then add coconut milk and cornstarch and mix well.
• Step 3: Pour the mixture into a blender to blend until smooth, then strain to make the cake smoother.
• Step 4: Mix pandan water, cornstarch, coconut milk, sugar, salt, and rice flour thoroughly to make the green layer of the pigskin cake. To make the white layer, you also mix similar ingredients as above.
• Step 5: While waiting for the steaming water to boil, grease the mold with oil. Then, pour a layer of green or white cake according to your preference.
• Step 6: Put the cake in the steamer, steam each side for 3 - 4 minutes. When the cake is cooked, pour alternating layers of different colors until all the ingredients are used up.
• Step 7: Take the cake out, let it cool, then cut. A tip for beautiful cake slices is to thinly spread oil on the knife.

How to Make Coconut Milk Pork Skin Cake

Ingredients

• 1kg fresh coconut for squeezing
• 500g pandan leaves for extracting coconut milk
• 150g soaked mung beans
• 500g cornstarch
• 50g rice flour
• 3 – 4 vanilla beans, 3g salt, 500g sugar

Steps to Prepare

• Step 1: Mix sugar, vanilla, salt, cornstarch, rice flour, and coconut milk with a whisk. Then, strain through a sieve and divide into 3 portions.
• Step 2: Clean the mung beans, steam until cooked for about 20 minutes. Then, put the beans in a blender with one of the 3 portions of flour above. Pour pandan coconut milk into the remaining flour mixture and stir well.
• Step 3: Grease the mold, pour the batter into layers, and steam for about 15 minutes. Repeat with the remaining mixtures until the cake has 3 – 4 layers.
• Step 4: After the cake is cooked, gently remove it from the mold by running a knife around the cake mold. To make the pork skin cake more beautiful, you can line banana leaves underneath or place it on a bamboo tray.

How to Make Coffee Pork Skin Cake

Ingredients

Steps to Prepare

• Step 1: Mix coconut milk, cornstarch, rice flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl until well combined. 
• Step 2: Next, divide the ingredients into 2 portions. Leave one portion as is and mix the other portion with coffee powder.
• Step 3: Pour the 2 mixtures into a blender one by one and blend until smooth. Then, strain through a sieve to make the batter smooth, preventing air bubbles from forming when steaming the pork skin cake.
• Step 4: Then, pour the batter into molds and place the molds in a steamer above boiling water.
• Step 5: Pour the layer without coffee and steam for about 5 minutes. Then, pour the layer with coffee on top and steam until cooked. Depending on your preference, you can make the cake thick or thin, with as many layers as you like.
• Step 6: Let the cake cool after steaming, then remove from the mold and cut into bite-sized pieces.

How to Make Fresh Milk Pork Skin Cake 

Ingredients

• 150g finely ground mung beans
• 50ml butterfly pea flower water
• 100g rice flour
• 300g cornstarch
• 120ml coconut milk (divided into 3 equal portions)
• 200ml pandan leaf water 
• 100g sugar
• 50ml unsweetened fresh milk

Steps to Prepare

• Step 1: Mix sugar, cornstarch, rice flour, finely ground mung beans, and coconut milk. Then, put them in a blender to grind, strain through a sieve 1 – 2 times until you get a smooth mixture.
• Step 2: For a beautiful color of the pork skin cake, mix butterfly pea flower water with coconut milk and a little flour, then strain through a sieve.
• Step 3: Mix the second portion of coconut milk with pandan leaf water to create a green color, continue to strain through a sieve. 
• Step 4: The third portion of coconut milk you mix with unsweetened fresh milk.
• Step 5: Then, prepare a pot of boiling water to steam the cake. Note, apply a thin layer of oil around the cake mold. Pour the first layer of colored water or any color you like, steam for 3 minutes. Next, pour the second layer of cake of different color on top, steam until cooked. Repeat until you create 3 – 4 alternating layers of colors.
• Step 6: When the cake is cooked, remove it to cool down before serving.

How to Make Five-Color Pork Skin Cake 

Ingredients

• 150g rice flour
• 500g tapioca starch
• 20g purple leaves, 5 – 10 fresh pandan leaves
• 120g mung beans
• 50g coffee powder
• 200ml coconut milk
• 250g sugar
• A little cooking oil

Step-by-step instructions

• Step 1: Divide sugar, coconut milk, tapioca starch, and rice flour into 5 portions to make 5-color pork skin cake.
• Step 2: To make the purple layer, wash the purple leaves, put them in a pot, pour water until the leaves are submerged, then boil until the water turns purple. Let it cool naturally. Strain the purple leaf water, mix with ⅕ of the flour.
• Step 3: Soak mung beans in cold water for about 3 hours, then rinse and steam until soft. Next, put the mung beans in a blender, add filtered water, and blend until the mixture is smooth. Mix ⅕ of the flour with the mung beans to create the yellow layer.
• Step 4: Wash and finely chop pandan leaves to extract the juice. Strain the pandan juice through a sieve to remove impurities. Mix this juice with the portion of flour to create the green layer for the cake.
• Step 5: Similarly, mix coffee powder with flour to create the brown layer. The remaining flour mixed with coconut milk will give the cake its white color.
• Step 6: Prepare boiling water, grease the mold with oil to prevent sticking. Then pour the first layer according to your preference, about 0.5cm thick, and steam for 3 – 4 minutes. Once the first layer is set, pour the next color. Repeat this process until you have all 5 colors stacked on top of each other. Note that the yellow layer with mung beans should be in the middle for better taste.
• Step 7: After all layers are cooked, remove from the mold and let cool. You can use a knife or a thread to cut the cake.

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