Old Beijing Dried Fruit

Name: Old Beijing Dried Fruit
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Dried persimmon; 100g Dried apricots; 50g honey; 200g Lotus root; Some Shimizu

by Love braised pork

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

2

Dried fruit is a snack in old Beijing. It is a dessert made of dried persimmons, dried apricots, and lotus root slices. It is said to be eaten in summer or winter. For me, I have not eaten this since I was a child. I don’t have a say, but I heard the 73-year-old neighbor aunt said that her family will only make this delicious in winter, especially during the Spring Festival. Each of the children will be served with a bowl of cool and refreshing dried fruit. It tastes sweet. The coldness and the crispness of lotus root slices have made her unforgettable so far. After hearing what my aunt said, I planned to learn how to make it for her to taste and see if it was the flavor she had eaten when she was a child.
So I asked her how she did it, and she also remembered it all, and I checked the introduction on the Internet. There were different opinions. Some said soaking and some said cooking. I still used the method of cooking according to the neighbor’s dictation, but The dried persimmons made for the first time were actually astringent after cooking, so I changed it again and changed to boiling water soaking. First boil the dried apricots, and then add the dried persimmons. Turn off the heat and soak in the remaining temperature. This is much better. Finally, I gave it to my neighbor and got a good comment from the neighbor, saying that it was similar to what I ate when I was a child. I was very happy to hear this.
It’s very important to make this selection. Dried apricots should be in the form of natural dried apricots. Don’t use the soft dried apricots made from honey. The persimmons should be flat persimmons like Beijing. We just have Fuping persimmons in my house. So I just made do with it. The lotus root was cooked in cold water to keep it crisp. It is really suitable as a dessert after the Spring Festival meal. It is very greasy. "

Ingredients

Old Beijing Dried Fruit

1. Prepare ingredients: 250g dried persimmon, 100g dried apricots, 200g lotus root, 50g honey.

2. First pick off the stalk of the dried persimmon.

3. Use a poking knife to cut off several pieces of lotus root, and remove one piece of lotus root where every two lotus root holes are connected.

4. Then slice it again, so that the slices are beautiful.

5. Wash the sliced lotus root twice with cold water, then boil it in boiling water for 1 and a half minutes, take it out, and soak it in cold water for later use.

6. Boil persimmons and dried apricots in a pot of boiling water for 30 seconds, then wash twice with cold water to control the moisture.

7. The scalded dried persimmons are torn into strips

8. Boil a pot of boiling water, put the dried apricots in and cook for 2 minutes

9. Then add the torn persimmon sticks, turn off the heat and let cool as soon as the water boils.

10. After cooling, pour the cooked persimmons and dried apricots on the lotus root slices

11. Put the plastic wrap on the bowl and put it in the refrigerator overnight.

12. You just need to pour honey before eating. Generally, you can eat it in small bowls per person. When serving, try to have some dried apricots and dried persimmons and lotus roots.

Tips:
1 The Fuping dried persimmons I chose are softer. If you use a particularly dry one, you should cook the dried persimmons first.
2 After the refrigeration I made this time, the moisture was absorbed a lot and it was a bit dry, so I will add more water when I make it next time.
3 After blanching the lotus root, immediately put it in cold water to make the taste more crisp.
4 Authentic should be sweet-scented osmanthus, my family doesn't eat that so I changed to honey.
5 Dried apricots are naturally dried strips of dried apricots, not the soft Hami dried apricots.