Description
A retro Taiwanese sweet eaten (drunk) as a gooey paste by pouring hot water over a powder of flour dry-roasted golden brown with lard (or scallion oil), sugar, and sesame.
Restaurants serving Roasted Flour Tea (Mian Cha)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Cake flour
- Lard(or Scallion oil)
- Sugar
- White sesame
- Hot water
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Powder Prep] Heat a wok, add a little lard (essential for old-school richness) or shallot-infused scallion oil.
- Dump massive flour (cake flour) into the wok.
- [Biggest Point] Dry-roast patiently for 'nearly
- hour' on low, stirring constantly with a spatula to prevent burning. Continue until the raw flour smell completely vanishes, it turns beautiful golden brown, and an intense savory aroma rises.
- Turn off heat, thoroughly mix in powdered sugar, roasted white sesame (or black), and peanut powder. This completes the 'Mian Cha Powder' (can be jarred for long storage).
- [Serving] Put a few tablespoons of Mian Cha powder in a bowl, gradually pour 'boiling water' over it.
- Stir quickly with a spoon until it becomes a lump-free 'gooey paste (like potage soup)' to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Savory aroma of roasted flour and lard
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Mix Kinako with sugar and hot water into a paste (similar flavor)
Pairing
Youtiao (Fried dough) or Peng Bing
Trivia
[For Everyone] The representative 'Guzaowei (nostalgic taste)', eaten in poor eras as baby food or kids' nutrition instead of milk. Tastes like 'warm liquid Kinako' or 'sweet peanut butter'; one bite envelops you in intense nostalgia. Famous specialty of Lukang.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Slurping the paste as is is fine, but breaking a traditional 'Peng Bing (hollow round pastry)' and dissolving it into the paste instead of hot water is the connoisseur way!
Allergen
Wheat, Sesame, (Peanuts)