Homemade Green Red Silk

Name: Homemade Green Red Silk
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g Orange peel; 300g Sugar; 3g Edible Soda Noodles; 1 ear pick Fruit green pigment

by Wanshanhong

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

2

New Year's Eve, the glutinous rice dumplings made with green red silk taste really good, do you want to eat it? Then hurry up and make the green red silk first!
Green red silk is an indispensable condiment in Chinese desserts. Its faint orange peel scent is added to Chinese desserts, such as moon cakes, glutinous rice balls, etc., or it is added to bread and cakes. Although the fragrance is faint, it is always pursued. I love to make all kinds of desserts by myself at home. This green and red silk is also an ingredient that I like to add very much. But the color of the green and red silk is really unacceptable. I don't know what pigment is in it. Check Taobao to find out. So I dared not buy it. Always make some candied orange peel instead. But the sugar-stained ones are soft, and you can't find the old-fashioned green and red silk feeling. I have always wanted to make green red silk by myself, and I have consulted with a pastry technician for this. He told me that the traditional green red silk is soaked in quicklime water and then processed with sugar. The method he said is not suitable for home production. I was thinking hard and didn't find a way. So it has always been candied. Making sugar ginger slices this year gave me an inspiration. Can the method of making sugar ginger slices make hard green and red silk gelatin? ! When you have an idea, you will immediately put it into practice, and it really succeeded! This can also be regarded as my little invention, haha! Excited! When I am excited, I immediately post to share with you. Friends who like to use it can also make green silk by themselves in the future. By the way, I have tried the orange peel, and it tastes not as good as orange peel. I suggest you make it directly with orange peel.

Ingredients

Homemade Green Red Silk

1. Choose fresh oranges. The skin should be unwaxed. The fresher the orange, the better. I bought oranges with fresh leaves. It is recommended to use oranges, I have tried the orange zest but it doesn’t taste as good

2. After the oranges are cleaned, scrape the lower skin with a paring knife. Try to avoid white ones, which are too bitter. Shaving with a paring knife is a very good method. The amount of orange peel in the recipe is the amount of peeled orange peel

3. Scraped Piche

4. Add edible soda noodles. The traditional method is quicklime water, which is all alkaline substances. I have used edible alkali and the effect is also very good.

5. Add warm water to the orange peel, stir evenly, so that the alkali noodles will melt and distribute evenly. Then soak for 20-30 minutes. This step is mainly to remove the bitter taste of orange peel. I tried it without soaking, it has a strong bitterness. The big difference after soaking.

6. Remove the filtered water after soaking

7. Put the soaked orange peel into the pot, add the same amount of sugar, then add a little green pigment, and mix well. Pigment I bought imported pure plant-derived pigment, which is relatively better. The choice of ingredients for what you eat yourself should be carefully selected. A spoonful of the pigment can be used with an ear pick.

8. Marinating for about half an hour, after marinating, the sugar is almost melted.

9. Bring to a boil on high fire, and then boil on medium heat. At first, a lot of water will be produced.

10. It has been cooked until the water evaporates and the sugar juice is almost gone, but it is actually absorbed by the orange peel. Turn off the fire

11. After turning off the heat, keep turning it to make the sugar grind, the orange peel will become sticky, and the sugar liquid will turn from liquid to solid during turning, and the orange peel will also become solid. It's hard. Because of the addition of green pigment, the color is naturally green, which is blue silk. Because the pigments I use are extracted from plants, I don’t want to be as heavy as the pigments. But health comes first, so that's it.

12. As for the red silk, I didn't use red pigment anymore, and took advantage of the color of orange peel itself. The color you eat is not important, the key is the taste. The specific method is the same as that of blue silk, except that no coloring is added.

13. I put the finished blue silk and red silk in different jars. It is more convenient to use. So it's hard, and the amount of sugar is relatively large. The green and red silk made by yourself can be stored for a long time, and it can be used for a while after making it once. You can put your own green and red silk in the glutinous rice balls for the Spring Festival this year, and you can also use the New Year’s Eight Treasure Rice