Zhua Zhua Fen

Zhua Zhua Fen

　　Zhua Zhua Fen is a cool dessert popular in Yunnan during summer. The finished dish is refreshing, sweet, and has a chewy texture. It gets its name from the process of using a specially designed, holed shovel-like tool to scrape the frozen jelly into fine strands.

Ingredients:

Main ingredient: 5 kilograms of broad bean starch.

Seasonings: 1 kilogram of brown sugar, 3 grams of alum, 500 grams of rose candy.

Preparation method:

(1) Dissolve the alum in water. Mix the broad bean starch with water to form a starch slurry, then add the dissolved alum water.

(2) Heat water in a large pot. Once boiling, slowly pour in the starch slurry while continuously stirring. As the mixture heats up, it will thicken and become translucent and gelatinous. Pour it into a basin, let it cool and set, then invert it onto a clean round plate and cover with clean gauze.

(3) Boil water in a pot, add the brown sugar, and once dissolved, filter out any impurities using gauze. Take the filtered sugar syrup and simmer it in the pot until it thickens into a syrup. Pour it into a container and mix in the rose candy until fully dissolved.

(4) When serving, use the specially designed holed iron shovel to scrape the frozen jelly, allowing the fine strands to form through the holes and drop into a bowl. Drizzle with the syrup to serve.