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, like the indigenous hill tribe peoples of the Central Highlands and Hoàng Liên Sơn mountains in northern Vietnam, people eat xôi as a main dish. Xôi is a common on-the-go breakfast item, and a popular snack nationwide.

Xôi lá cẩm  Xôi gà  Xôi ngũ sắc Xôi ngũ sắc  Traditional xôi cooker

Varieties

Sweet

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

• Xôi bắp - made with corn, sugar, fried onions, and smashed cooked mung beans
• 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 - with boiled waxy maize, fried shallot and mung bean paste
• 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 - made with silk worms
• Xôi sầu riêng - made with durian
• Xôi vị - hard cooked xôi with pandan leaves.
• 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 - cooked with coconut juice
• Xôi xoài - made with coconut milk and fresh ripe mango; of Thai origin

Savory

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

• Xôi cá- fried fish xôi
• Xôi chiên phồng - deep-fried glutinous rice patty
• Xôi gà - with chicken
• Xôi khúc - with mung bean filling with a coating of pandan leaves paste
• 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, meat floss and boiled quail egg
• Xôi thập cẩm - subgum xôi
  • Xôi thập cẩm chiên - fried subgum xôi
• Xôi xíu mại - similar to the Cantonese siu mai

See also

• Chè xôi nước