1. Osmanthus tea. It can be brewed alone or added with honey (about 5 grams can be brewed for one cup, the soup is yellow in color, and the taste is sweet and fragrant). It can also be brewed with Longjing tea, oolong tea, etc. Different kinds of osmanthus tea.

How to make osmanthus tea:

Materials: 5 grams of dried osmanthus (15 grams of fresh), appropriate amount of rock sugar or honey.

Method:

Put the osmanthus and rock sugar into a cup, brew with hot water for three minutes, filter and drink. If honey is used instead of rock sugar, add it after filtering, stir and drink.

Efficacy: It has the functions of waking up the stomach, dispersing congestion, warming the stomach and relieving pain, and resolving phlegm. It can cure cough and asthma due to phlegm, blurred vision, sluggish food accumulation, toothache, and bad breath.

2. Osmanthus sugar. Osmanthus sugar is sweet and is a good condiment.

Preparation method:

Prepare osmanthus and white sugar in a ratio of 1:10, mix Pack it evenly and it will turn into delicious osmanthus sugar after a few months;

3. Seasoning. It can be used to make osmanthus buns, osmanthus glutinous rice balls, osmanthus wine, sugar and osmanthus preserves. Osmanthus pastry has a unique flavor; osmanthus can be combined with chicken and duck to make osmanthus duck, osmanthus chicken and various aromatic cooking foods;

How to make osmanthus chicken wings:

Ingredients: Six middle sections of chicken wings, a little osmanthus.

Accessories: brown sugar, ginger paste, garlic paste, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce.

Preparation method:

1. Chicken wings Remove the hair, wash and drain the water, add osmanthus, salt, light soy sauce, ginger paste, and garlic paste and marinate for two hours;

2. Fry the chicken wings in a pan until both sides are brown, and use low heat when frying. It is best to fry one side before frying the other side instead of constantly turning both sides.

3. Take out the fried chicken wings, put dark soy brown sugar in the pot, and fry them together. After the brown sugar is melted, pour the chicken wings into the pot and cover the pot, and simmer for a while. The translucent red juice hung on the chicken wings. This procedure also requires low heat to avoid burning the sugar.

4. After the chicken wings are placed on the plate, sprinkle a thin layer of osmanthus on it.

How to make Osmanthus Sugar Porridge (a traditional Wuxi snack):

Main ingredient: glutinous rice

Accessory ingredients: red dates, peas, osmanthus, white sugar

Preparation method

1. Wash the glutinous rice, add red dates and peas, add cold water, and cook over high heat.

2. After the glutinous rice grains bloom, add sweet osmanthus and sweet osmanthus. white sugar; continue to cook until thick.

The sugar porridge is thick but not mushy, while the red date and white porridge has an attractive color, fragrant with sweet-scented osmanthus, and is sweet and delicious. It is very suitable for the tastes of the public, especially the elderly.

How to make sweet-scented osmanthus root:

Main ingredient 600g lotus root 100g glutinous rice

Accessory ingredients 15g osmanthus sauce 120g white sugar 30g starch (pea) Appropriate amount of each

Preparation method

1. Wash and peel the lotus root, cut it into sections, and cut off about 2 cm from the top to use as a lid.

2. Wash the glutinous rice, drain it, pour it into the hole of the lotus root, tap it gently to fill the hole with glutinous rice, cover it, and secure it with 3 toothpicks, and prepare each one for later use.

3. Take a microwave pressure cooker, add lotus roots, add water to cover the lotus roots, then cover, cook over high heat for 30 minutes, take it out, pour off the juice, wait until it cools, then add osmanthus paste, sugar, Add water, cover, cook over high heat for 10 minutes, then cook over medium heat for 30 minutes, take out, cut into 0.5cm thick discs and place on a plate.

4. Pour out the juice, add dry starch and water, mix well, cook over high heat for 3 minutes, then top with lotus root.

4. Brew wine. Use dried osmanthus as spice, and add it with wheat, glutinous rice, etc. to make osmanthus wine that is appetizing and refreshing, with a fragrant fragrance; you can also put the osmanthus directly into rice wine and soak it for half a month, that is, Can be drunk;

5. Spices. It can be used as a fragrance for high-end hotels and room windows. It is really a good gift for relatives and friends when traveling at home.

Storage method:

Dried osmanthus should be protected from insects, moisture, and direct sunlight. It does not need to be placed in the refrigerator, just store it in a sealed jar