Description
Thick edible aloe skins peeled, transparent jiggly flesh briefly blanched, and tossed with honey and lemon juice. Zero calories, highly moisturizing; a beauty salad (sweet) women love.
Restaurants serving Cold Tossed Aloe Vera
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Edible aloe(Aloe Vera)
- Lemon juice
- Honey
- (Passion fruit)
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Trim edible aloe (Aloe Vera) thorns, peel green skin thickly with a peeler to extract clear flesh.
- To remove bitterness and slime, blanch in hot water for 1-
- mins, shock in ice water immediately.
- Drain, cut into bite-sized cubes.
- Put in a bowl, mix with lemon juice, honey, and passion fruit pulp if desired.
- Chill ice-cold in fridge to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sweet/sour refreshing aroma of lemon and honey
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Nata de coco or Agar jelly (texture sub)
Pairing
Soda water、Unsweetened Taiwan tea
Trivia
[For Women] Taiwan's summer sun is fierce, so aloe shines as an ingredient to 'cool internal heat and moisturize skin'. Familiar as a drink stand topping, but processing fresh large aloe at home yields a fresh elasticity completely distinct from store-bought syrups. The ultimate zero-calorie detox sweet.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Sink chunks of this aloe into cold unsweetened 'green tea' or 'oolong tea', sucking it up through a straw to enjoy 'DIY Aloe Tea'!
Allergen
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