Zhu Xue Gao (Pig Blood Cake)
Blood cake and peanut flour!? Intense Visual Snacks at Taiwan Night Market
Description
A pitch-black, rectangular rice cake made by steaming sticky rice mixed with fresh 'pig's blood'. Brushed with sweet-spicy sauce, coated heavily in peanut powder and cilantro, and eaten on a stick at night markets.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Glutinous rice
- Pig's blood
- Peanut powder
- Coriander(Cilantro)
- Sweet soy sauce glaze
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Soak glutinous rice in water to soften.
- Add a pinch of salt to fresh 'pig's blood (or duck's blood)' and stir to prevent coagulation.
- Mix the sticky rice into the blood, ensuring every grain is coated, and pour into a square mold.
- Steam for about an hour until the rice is fully cooked and the blood sets into a hard, black jelly.
- Cut the resulting pitch-black 'blood cake' into rectangular popsicle shapes and skewer them.
- Brush both sides heavily with a sweet-spicy thickened soy sauce (Jiang Gao) made from pork broth, soy, and sugar.
- Dunk the entire stick into a mountain of sweet peanut powder and chopped cilantro until completely coated.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Iron flavor of pig's blood、Sweet/nutty peanut aroma
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Irreplaceable)
Pairing
Boba Milk Tea / Taiwan Beer
Trivia
[Trivia] Famous for ranking in the top 10 'World's Weirdest Foods' by a UK travel site. Contains zero raw blood odor. Walk through a Taiwan night market, and you'll see every youth holding one.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Hold the skewer and bite it like a popsicle. The combo of 'Pig's blood + Sweet peanut powder' breaks Japanese brains, but eating it reveals a 'sweet-salty, ultra-chewy rice cake'.
Allergen
Pork (Blood), Peanuts, Wheat (Sauce)