Not too fussy in the way of preparation, not picky about the ingredients, but dishes cooked in bamboo tubes always retain the rich, original flavor of the food, so tube rice cooking cuisine is increasingly popularized. , pass the village gate to enter modern restaurants, hotels, parties...
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| Soak sticky rice for a few hours before cooking and put it in a bamboo tube to boil on the stove |
For the ethnic minorities in the province, Lo O has a very important meaning in life, it is used to make musical instruments, manufacturing tools for labor and production, and Lo O also has a function. Another very important function is the special type of pots and pans in people's lives not only in the past but also now when materials such as cast iron, aluminum, and iron are very popular.
Village elder A Hiuh (Kon Tum Ko Nam village, Thong Nhat ward, Kon Tum city) said: In the past, life was difficult, tools for preparing food such as pots, pans, pans... were not abundant. Like now, the ethnic minorities know how to take advantage of the available ingredients in the forest to cook food, called bamboo tube. Besides, farming and farming work today in this forest, tomorrow in another forest is not convenient for carrying kitchen utensils, so using bamboo to cook is very suitable. Wherever you go, you just need to pick out a few bamboo trees, go down to the stream to get water, and you can cook rice and soup for the whole family.
The bamboo used for cooking must be carefully selected, not too old but not too young, the body must be straight, long and the hollow part must be large to hold a lot of food. In the past, popular dishes of the people were bamboo-tube rice, wild vegetable soup, stream fish, wild meat... in general, the ingredients besides rice had to be grown, the rest were mostly foraged in the forest, caught in the wild. stream. This cooking job belongs to the women and girls in the house.
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| Lam rice is cut into short pieces and placed on the rice tray during the Festival of Kon Tum Ethnic Minorities |
Among the traditional dishes of ethnic minorities cooked from bamboo tubes, we can mention dishes such as tube-grilled rice (lam rice) cooked from sticky rice grown in the fields and grilled over charcoal. When cooked, it has a sticky, fragrant taste. Mixed with the sweetness and aroma of bamboo shoots, it is difficult to find any rice dish cooked from a pot or place that is as delicious as it is. Then the enema soup is cooked from rice, bitter eggplant, bep leaves, rattan shoots, stream fish... when eaten, it has the bitter taste of eggplant and rattan shoots, the fatty taste of fish, the fleshy taste of rice; then the dish of cassava leaves cooked with stream fish... With a simple preparation method, there is no need to add too many spices, but when enjoying, just adding a little salt, chili, and é leaves is enough. That's why dishes cooked from bamboo tubes always retain their original, pure flavor, with a very unique flavor, always captivating anyone once they have enjoyed it.
Although not fussy in preparation, cooking in a bamboo tube is an art. When cooking, one end of the tube is tilted up, you have to watch the fire, calculate the appropriate time, and turn the food evenly. Cooks evenly and does not burn. When poured, it emits a very unique aroma of each ingredient... Therefore, only the skillful hands of women and sisters can create delicious dishes from these ingredients. The ingredients are simple and the cooking utensils are also very simple.
Because dishes cooked in bamboo tubes always retain their natural and original flavors, they have a special appeal to many people from other places, even foreign tourists. Therefore, Lo O cuisine has now gone beyond the village space and entered the menus of many restaurants, hotels, and eateries. The dishes cooked in bamboo tubes are also more diverse, in addition to simple traditional dishes, there are also modern ingredients such as goat, beef... but the typical flavor of food cooked with this forest plant is still the same. nothing compares. Along with can wine, dishes cooked with bamboo have now become an unmissable feature of every tourist coming to Kon Tum in choosing to enjoy their cuisine./.
