Fermented Rice Wine Cherries

Name: Fermented Rice Wine Cherries
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 20 min
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250 g Fresh cherries (washed, stems removed, pitted with a toothpick); 75 g Fermented rice wine (stirred loose with chopsticks); 10 g Fresh peas (blanched in boiling water, cooled and drained); 200 g White sugar; 0.5 g Sweet osmanthus sugar

Simmered together with cherries, jiuniang (sweet fermented rice), and peas, this dish displays a vivid red, green, and white palette. It is honey-sweet, with a glutinous fragrance and a subtle tang.

20 min

Easy

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Ingredients

Fresh cherries (washed, stems removed, pitted with a toothpick) 250 g

Fermented rice wine (stirred loose with chopsticks) 75 g

Fresh peas (blanched in boiling water, cooled and drained) 10 g

White sugar 200 g

Sweet osmanthus sugar 0.5 g

Instructions

Prepare the ingredients

Wash the cherries, pull off the stems, and push out the pits with a toothpick, keeping the fruit whole. Stir the fermented rice wine loose with chopsticks. Blanch the peas in boiling water, lift them into cold water to cool, then drain well.

Cook the soup

Place a wok over the heat, add 600 g of water and bring to a boil, stir in the fermented rice wine, then add the white sugar, cherries, peas, and sweet osmanthus sugar and bring back to a boil. Skim the foam from the surface, remove from the heat, and pour into a serving bowl.