Xue Ha Gao (Hasma / Frog Fallopian Tube Dessert)
Everlasting beauty eats it! Frog Fallopian Tube Collagen Dessert
Description
A premium beauty dessert rivaling Bird's Nest. The dried fallopian tube fat (Hasma / Xue Ha) of female 'Forest Frogs' living in the freezing Northeast mountains, steamed with rock sugar and papaya.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Xue Ha(Frog fallopian tube fat)
- Rock sugar
- Papaya(or Pear)
- Goji berries
- Jujube
- Milk
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Soak dried 'Xue Ha' (Hasma)—which looks like hard, yellow pebbles—in plenty of cold water overnight (12+ hours).
- Astonishingly, it absorbs water and expands 'dozens to a hundred times' its original size into a fluffy, 'cotton-snow-like white jelly'.
- Meticulously remove any black veins or impurities from the expanded jelly with tweezers.
- Blanch briefly in water with ginger slices to eliminate the faint frog odor.
- Hollow out half a raw papaya to use as a bowl. Place the Hasma inside with rock sugar, goji berries, jujubes, and milk (or coconut milk).
- Steam for 30-
- minutes until everything melts together into a silken dessert.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Gentle sweetness of papaya and rock sugar
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Snow fungus (as a texture/beauty substitute)
Pairing
Hot Chinese Tea
Trivia
[Trivia] Hearing 'Frog Fallopian Tubes' shocks people, but it has been prized by Imperial concubines since ancient times as a 'medicine for immortality and beautiful skin', traded by the gram as an ultra-luxury ingredient.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Use a spoon to scrape the hot papaya flesh from the 'bowl' itself, eating it together with the bouncy Hasma. The Hasma itself is a premium, flavorless, odorless jelly.
Allergen
Dairy (when using milk)