What foods can be made with osmanthus

Osmanthus can be used to make osmanthus candy, fried rice cakes, osmanthus glutinous rice porridge, and osmanthus lotus root slices. Osmanthus cake, sesame and osmanthus cold cake, osmanthus tea, etc.

The specific recipe of osmanthus

Osmanthus sugar

Materials:

Osmanthus, sugar (or honey).

Method:

1. Rinse the sweet-scented osmanthus with clean water for a while after picking it.

2. Add sweet-scented osmanthus in boiling water and cook for a minute or two. It is said that it can remove the bitter taste.

3. Take out and drain, add a layer of sugar and a layer of osmanthus, seal it in a glass bottle, and store it in a cool place. Instead of eating white sugar, you can use honey. Put the osmanthus on the bottom first and pour in the honey. Add a little when making desserts for a unique flavor.

Glutinous rice, osmanthus and lotus root

Ingredients: 800 grams of lotus root, 200 grams of glutinous rice

Accessory ingredients: 20 grams of lotus leaves

Seasoning: white 100 grams of sugar, 40 grams of sweet-scented osmanthus

1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in warm water for about 1 hour.

2. Wash the lotus roots and cut them into sections.

3. Cut off one end of the lotus root to expose the lotus root hole, fill it with soaked glutinous rice, then cover it with the lotus root joint head and insert the bamboo skewer firmly.

4. Pour water into the pot, put in the lotus roots (with the rice filling mouth facing up), and bring to a boil over high heat.

5. Cover with clean lotus leaves, cover, turn to low heat and simmer for about two hours, remove from heat.

6. Take out the lotus root and let it cool, peel it, cut it into 0.8 cm thick slices, and stack them on a plate.

7. Put the pot on a high fire, add water to boil, add sugar to dissolve, skim off the foam, and turn to low heat.

8. When the sugar juice is thickened, add the sweet-scented osmanthus syrup, stir well, and remove from the heat to cool.

9. Pour the sugar juice on the glutinous rice and serve.