Bánh da lợn

Bánh da lợn or bánh da heo[1] (lit. 'pig skin 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.

Bánh da lợn

Bánh da lợn sầu riêng green leaf cake with durian flavor
Type	Layer cake
Course	Snack, dessert
Place of origin	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
Cookbook: Bánh da lợn   Media: Bánh da lợn

Typical versions of bánh da lợn may feature the following ingredients:

• Pandan leaf (for green color) with mung bean paste filling
• Pandan leaf (for green color) with durian filling
• Lá cẩm (leaf of the magenta plant, Peristrophe roxburghiana; imparts a purple color when boiled) with mashed taro filling

In modern cooking, artificial food coloring is sometimes used in place of the vegetable coloring.

A cake called kuih lapis, which is made in Malaysia and Indonesia, is similar to bánh da lợn. In the Philippines, a similar dessert and variant of kutsinta is simply called Vietnamese kutsinta.

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  Bánh da lợn green leaf cake.