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1. MINI GOLDEN LOTUS SEED PASTE MOONCAKE WITH YOLK SKIN
2. MINI GOLDEN LOTUS SEED PASTE MOONCAKE WITH YOLK PLUS

Blender ( Vitamix with plunger preferred) or food processor.100g honey mixed with 2 tablespoons water.

MINI GOLDEN LOTUS SEED PASTE MOONCAKE WITH YOLK PLUS

130g all-purpose flour plus 1/4 cup for dusting.

MINI GOLDEN LOTUS SEED PASTE MOONCAKE WITH YOLK SKIN

200g dried lotus seeds (without skin and core removed wash and presoak overnight).Makes 10 standard-size mooncakes Ingredients Mooncake with Sweet Lotus Paste Filling (Banh Tet Trung Nhan Hat Sen) My husband will just have to get his own from the store. In the recipe below, I’m focusing on my favorite, Mooncake with Sweet Lotus Paste (Banh Tet Trung Nhan Hat Sen). They are gross, tasting too much like Chinese herbal medicine rather than a sweet treat. Husband prefers the salted egg and mixed nuts. My favorite mooncake is one with a pure lotus seed paste filling. At home, I simply chomp into one like an apple as my husband look in horror. You savor the mooncakes with small bites and hot tea. Many store-bought moon cakes come with a plastic knife and several mini forks for this very reason. The proper way eat a mooncake is to cut one into four pieces to share. Before going into the oven to bake, the mooncakes are molded and stamped with an elaborate designs, usually a Chinese characters expressing good will, flowers or a simple beautiful geometric pattern. The pastes are typically sweetened lotus seed paste, red bean paste, black sesame paste and mung bean pastes. Typical mooncake fillings include different sweet pastes, mixed nuts and salted egg yolks. Mooncakes are round or square pastries with various savory and sweet filings. Vietnamese families welcome the day by placing food on their ancestral altars, lighting incense and worshiping, before feasting on mooncakes.Īll that love and worshiping is great and dandy, but really for me, Tet Trung Thu is all about gorging on mooncakes. It’s a time to relax and enjoy the company of families and friends, chase away bad spirits, and spread luck and prosperity to all, much like Chinese/Vietnamese New Year ( Tet).Ĭhildren would line the streets at night, carry lanterns, beat drums, and participate in lion dances. Tet Trung Thu, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Children’s Festival, Full-Moon Festival and Lantern Festival is an event that traditionally commemorates the final rice harvest of the year. This year Tết Trung Thu is Friday, September 13th. Tet Trung Thu is a Vietnamese/Chinese celebratory event that takes place in the middle of the 8th lunar month.