Fruit Juice Cold Jelly
Liang fen (jelly) cubes are made from pea starch, soaked, and served with fruit juice syrup. The finished cubes are amber and translucent, with a sweet, refreshing flavor.
Ingredients
pea starch
5 × 500 g
white sugar
2 × 500 g
fruit syrup
5 liang (250 g)
citric acid
4 qian (20 g)
flavoring essence
5 qian (25 g)
saccharin
2 qian (10 g)
Instructions
1
Prepare pea starch mixture
Place the pea starch in a basin, add 5 jin (2500 g) of clean water, and stir until evenly dissolved.
2
Cook the jelly
Place an iron wok over high heat, add 35 jin (17.5 kg) of clean water and bring to a boil. Pour the dissolved pea starch into the wok while stirring continuously with a wooden stick until the pea starch becomes a cooked paste. Remove from heat and ladle into a tray (about 66 cm long by 33 cm wide). Let cool completely, then remove and cut into small cubes about 1 cm square. Store in a basin and soak in cold boiled water.
3
Prepare sugar syrup
Place an aluminum pot over high heat, add 5 jin (2500 g) of clean water, white sugar, and saccharin. Bring to a boil and dissolve into a sugar syrup. Remove the pot from heat, pour into a bucket and cool, then add fruit syrup, citric acid, and flavoring essence, and stir well.
4
Assemble the dish
Take one small cup, scoop in cold jelly cubes to fill half the cup, then pour in the fruit sugar water. The dish is ready.
