Ben Tre Coconut Candy

Ben Tre coconut candy is not only a dish to prepare for family entertainment, but it is also a friendly gift for friends and relatives. Today, Ben Tre people have created many types of coconut candy with different flavors to captivate tourists from near and far. These are pandan leaf coconut candy, coconut milk coconut candy, durian peanut coconut candy... Each type has its own unique flavor but still ensures the basic coconut flavor.

Those who eat it for the first time will definitely fall in love with coconut candy because of its rich, soft, sweet flavor. Over time, coconut candy has become a specialty gift for tourists, a specialty that every child of Ben Tre is always proud of. Perhaps for people in the West, they consider this simple candy a dear part of what they call the soul of their homeland.

Coconut candy is produced by many candy companies, coming from many different types and each type has different flavors for visitors to choose from. Ut Ha Special Products would like to introduce 4 main familiar product lines of the Huynh Yen production facility.

Pandan coconut candy

This candy has a faint taste of pandan leaves. This type of candy is sought after by many domestic and foreign tourists.

Coconut candy with pineapple leaves and pineapple leaves

Coconut milk coconut candy

With the pure fatty flavor of coconut milk when not mixed with other flavors. This candy is quite popular, especially suitable for customers who do not like the smell of durian.

Durian peanut coconut candy

Durian combined with peanuts and coconut milk creates a rich, delicious flavor of durian and peanuts that is different from other types of coconut candy.

Coconut candy, durian, peanuts, etc

Mixed coconut candy

For those of you who want to enjoy many different flavors of Ben Tre coconut candy, this is a great choice with many different flavors such as: pandan leaves, peanuts, durian, cocoa, taro.

Ingredients for Making Ben Tre Coconut Candy

The process of making Ben Tre coconut candy is quite simple, the main ingredients are coconut, white sugar and malt filtered from the sugar of sticky rice grains when fermented.

First, you must choose a good coconut to grate the rice to make juice. Coconut to make candy must be old coconut to be sweet and fatty. Young coconuts are often bland, only suitable for drinking water or making jam, not suitable for making candy. Malt is made from good sticky rice. Sugar for cooking candy must also be yellow cane sugar to be delicious.

All steps from easy to difficult are done by hand. Machines currently only make human strength lighter, but the flavor is difficult to compare with the manual method. They accept to spend more effort, a little lower productivity but bring customers the most authentic Ben Tre coconut candy flavor.

The candies are cleverly packaged, encapsulating the sacrifices of Ben Tre people who hold on to the traditional profession of their ancestors even though the profession is sometimes thankless and very difficult.