Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, is a day of family reunion. A day of childhood memories with indispensable dishes that grandparents and parents have given you. In addition to moon cakes, there are many traditional dishes specially reserved for this occasion.
Let's review with Travellive the indispensable dishes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, dishes that live forever in every Vietnamese person.
Sticky rice with green rice
A familiar dish indispensable for the people of the North every Mid-Autumn Festival is sticky rice with green rice. This is also considered a traditional dish that you should not miss if you have the opportunity to visit Hanoi this autumn.
Because the best harvest season for green rice falls in the fall, green rice is considered a must-try gift during this time.
Sticky rice with green rice is cooked with three main ingredients including green beans, young rice and grated coconut. After being seasoned with a little white sugar, the grated coconut will be stir-fried over low heat. The green beans will be soaked for about half a day before, then steamed and crushed. After that, people will add young rice and mix well to create a complete sticky rice dish with a light, gentle aroma.
Although green rice flakes are rarely used in the South, in the North, this dish is a famous specialty of the Mid-Autumn Festival, no less than moon cakes.
Dishes made from lotus root
Lotus root is a typical autumn ingredient for the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition, lotus root also symbolizes good luck, eating lotus root on this occasion means reunion. Lotus root and cinnamon flowers mixed into food create a new, attractive flavor and much more delicious taste. You can mix lotus root and cinnamon flowers with sticky rice, the aroma of sticky rice combined with the aroma of lotus root and cinnamon flowers will enhance the rich flavor of sticky rice, making the family reunion party even more cozy.
Lotus shoots during the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolize good fortune and family reunion.
In addition, you can prepare many different dishes with lotus root depending on your preference, such as lotus root salad, lotus root soup, or lotus root stir-fried with shrimp and meat... During the Mid-Autumn Festival, most families often prepare lotus root salad with shrimp and meat because it is simple to make and the flavor of the dish is extremely attractive.
Grapefruit salad
In addition to dishes made from green rice, the Mid-Autumn Festival tray cannot lack refreshing dishes made from grapefruit. Not only easy to eat, grapefruit salad also has the meaning of reunion, evoking the desire for the whole family to gather on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month.
Lotus shoots during the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolize good fortune and family reunion.
The sour taste of grapefruit combined with the fresh taste of seafood such as shrimp and squid will create a very attractive dish. You can also prepare a vegetarian grapefruit salad with accompanying ingredients such as vegetables, mushrooms and sweet and sour dressing to complete an appetizer for the whole family.
Sweet rice dumplings
Sweet rice balls, also known as Doan Vien sweet soup, are a popular dish during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This sweet soup symbolizes unity and reunion.
Sweet rice dumplings with a smooth, slightly sweet outer shell combined with sweet sugar water, fragrant coconut water and spicy ginger symbolize the sweet and warm feelings of the family. After a meal, enjoying a bowl of sweet rice dumplings as dessert with loved ones gathering to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is wonderful.
Sweet rice dumplings are also known as reunion sweet soup.
Snail dishes
Traditionally, snails are also an indispensable dish during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Snails in the fall are often large, firm and delicious, so people believe that eating snails at this time is good for health, especially the eyes. In addition to having a special meaning, snails are often very delicious at this time, because they do not reproduce, so at this time snails are hollow and have a lot of meat.
Besides the traditional meaning, eating snails in the fall can help improve eyesight.
Besides, ancient people believed that eating snails in the fall can help improve eyesight because snails contain a lot of vitamin A which is good for the eyes.
