Xôi

"Xôi" is a sweet ("ngọt") or savory ("mặn") Vietnamese dish made from glutinous rice and other ingredients. Although it is often served as a dessert, in many mountainous areas in Vietnam, people eat "xôi" as a main dish.

Varieties

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Sweet "xôi" are called "xôi ngọt" in Vietnamese. They include the following varieties:

*Xôi đậu đen - made with black urad beans
*Xôi đậu phộng (southern Vietnamese name, also spelled "xôi đậu phụng"; called "xôi lạc" in northern Vietnam) - made with peanuts
*Xôi đậu xanh - made with mung beans
*Xôi dừa - made with coconut
*Xôi gấc - made with the aril and seeds of the "gấc" fruit
*Xôi khoai mì - made with cassava
*Xôi lá cẩm (also called "xôi tím") - made with the magenta plant
**Xôi lá cẩm đậu xanh - made with the magenta plant and mung beans
*Xôi lá dứa - made with pandan leaf extract for the green color and a distinctive pandan flavor
*Xôi lam - cooked in a tube of bamboo of the genus "Neohouzeaua" and often served with sesame seeds and salt; a specialty of highland minority groups
*Xôi lúa
*Xôi nếp than - made with black glutinous rice
*Xôi ngũ sắc - 5-colored "xôi": purple from the leaf extract of the magenta plant, green from pandan leaf, red from "gấc" fruit, yellow from mung beans, and the white color of natural glutinous rice
*Xôi nhộng
*Xôi sầu riêng - made with durian
*Xôi vị
*Xôi vò - the glutinous rice grains do not stick together in this type of "xôi", as they are coated with ground peeled-and-boiled mung beans
*Xôi xiêm
*Xôi xoài - made with coconut milk and fresh ripe mango; of Thai origin

avory

Savory "xôi" are called "xôi mặn" in Vietnamese. They include the following varieties:

*Xôi cá
**Xôi cá rô đồng
**Xôi cá rô phi
*Xôi chiên phồng - deep-fried glutinous rice patty
*Xôi gà - made with chicken
*Xôi khúc - almost like a sticky rice cake, with mung bean paste and boiled quail egg inside
*Xôi lam - cooked in a tube of bamboo of the genus "Neohouzeaua" and often served with grilled pork or chicken; a specialty of highland minority groups
*Xôi lạp xưởng or "xôi lạp xường" - made with Chinese sausage
*Xôi thập cẩm - subgum "xôi"
**Xôi thập cẩm chiên - fried subgum "xôi"
*Xôi xíu mại - similar to the Cantonese "siu mai"

ee also

*Chè xôi nước