Classic Chinese Walnut Dessert Soup
Dear friends, the taste of Walnut tea is as delicate as silk. Walnuts are carefully ground and perfectly blended with other ingredients, without any roughness. At the entrance, you first feel the smooth texture, and then the aroma of walnuts spreads in your mouth, gently enveloping every taste bud. This delicate taste is an important reason why it has become a classic delicacy. Come and experience it now.
Introduction to Walnut Curd
Walnut pudding is a delicacy full of rich cultural charm. Its history is like a long-flowing river. This has to start from the agricultural society of ancient China. At that time, walnuts were regarded as extremely precious fruits.
The ancient chefs were really adventurous. They tried again and again to combine walnuts with glutinous rice. After careful grinding and slow cooking over low heat, this unique dessert of walnut pudding was born. As time goes by, walnut pudding is also constantly changing. It incorporates local red dates and wolfberries. The addition of red dates and wolfberries is like injecting new vitality into walnut pudding, making its taste sweeter and more colorful.
Whether it is at lively traditional festival celebrations or in ordinary leisure moments, walnut pudding shines in the great treasure of Chinese cuisine with its unique flavor and delicate and smooth texture.
Ingredients and substitutes
To make this Walnut tea, you need to prepare the following materials:
Main ingredients
Glutinous rice: It is an important component of walnut curd and provides a soft and glutinous taste.
Red dates: add sweetness and unique jujube aroma, enriching the taste hierarchy.
Walnuts: Give walnut curd a strong walnut flavor and rich nutrition.
flavoring
Sugar: Used to increase sweetness and enhance overall taste.
Glutinous rice flour: It can thicken Walnut tea.
Osmanthus Candy: It brings the fragrance of osmanthus and adds unique flavor to Walnut tea.
Substitutes
If red dates are not available, honey dates can be used as a substitute, but their sweetness will be higher.
You can try to use lotus root starch instead of glutinous rice flour, but the taste may be different from the effect of thickening.
Tips for Success
Ingredients preparation
Choose ingredients carefully. Walnuts should be plump and odorless, with high-quality kernels, and rice or glutinous rice with plump grains. Peel the walnuts, soak the rice (glutinous rice) in advance, remove the core of the red dates and chop them, and wash the wolfberries.
Grinding and boiling
Mix the ingredients according to the proportion, and grind them with a stone mill or blender until they are smooth and free of particles. Add the juice to the pot, boil it over high heat first, then simmer it over low heat. Stir constantly during the process to prevent the pot from sticking, and pay attention to the state until it is thick and attractive.
Pay attention to details and innovation
Don't ignore details when making, such as stirring direction and fine-tuning the heat. You can also innovate, according to personal taste and regional characteristics, add osmanthus to enhance the fragrance, a small amount of honey to sweeten, etc., to make the walnut cheese more attractive.
INGREDIENTS
Main Ingredients
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·100g glutinous rice
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·50g red dates
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·100g walnuts
Seasonings
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·30g white sugar
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·55g glutinous rice flour
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·5g osmanthus sugar
COOKING STEP
Step 1
Take an appropriate amount of glutinous rice and soak it in clean water for 2 hours to ensure that the glutinous rice fully absorbs water and becomes soft.
Step 2
Remove the core of the red dates and put them in a steamer. Steam them for 20 minutes until the red dates become soft and glutinous.
Step 3
Pour the steamed red dates, an appropriate amount of walnuts and soaked glutinous rice into a juicer, then add 1 liter of water, start the juicer, and crush these ingredients into fine juice.
Step 4
Prepare a strainer and filter the squeezed juice through the strainer into another container. Stir constantly during filtering to make the filtering smoother and filter out the residue to obtain pure walnut and date juice.
Step 5
Take a clean bowl, add 25g glutinous rice flour, then pour in 100ml water, stir with chopsticks to make glutinous rice flour water for subsequent thickening, and stir until there are no obvious particles.
Step 6
Pour 500ml of clean water into the pot, turn on the fire to boil the water, then add the filtered walnut juice, boil again, add 30g white sugar, stir evenly to dissolve the white sugar, then add 30g glutinous rice flour, and stir quickly with chopsticks to prevent lumps.
Step 7
During the cooking process, keep stirring the ingredients in the pan to avoid sticking to the pan, and then add the prepared glutinous rice flour water to thicken the texture of Walnut tea gradually.
Step 8
Finally, add 5g osmanthus sugar, cover the pot, turn to low heat and boil for 10 minutes, so that various flavors can be fully integrated, and then you can enjoy delicious Walnut tea out of the pot.
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Recipe Variations
You are welcome to try more interesting variations on the following walnut butter recipes:
Add nuts: In addition to walnuts, you can add cashews, almonds, etc. The mellow aroma of cashew nuts and almond can enrich the taste and add nutrition. These nuts are rich in protein, healthy fats, and a variety of micronutrients that make walnut butter tasty and nutritious.
Transform the grain: Replace some of the rice with purple rice to give the walnut cheese a distinctive color and stronger flavor. The unique anthocyanins of purple rice make its color dark and charming, and the aroma released during the boiling process adds a lot of color to the walnut cheese.
Add edible flowers or floral products to the mix. For example, adding some rose petals or osmanthus flowers, rose petals can give walnut cheese elegant flowers, osmanthus flowers bring rich sweetness, walnut cheese has a unique romantic atmosphere.
