Solomon's Seal (Yu Zhu)
乾燥の季節の救世主！スープにフルーティーな甘みを出す黄色い根
Description
Dried, sliced rhizome of the lily family (Solomon's Seal). Medically said to 'replenish body fluids and moisturize skin/throat'. Has no quirky aroma, offering a 'fruity, clean sweetness' like sugarcane or faint apple. Massively used in Cantonese meat soups and sweet dessert soups.
Classification: Everyone, Ingredient, Medicinal, Yu Zhu, Solomon's Seal, For Soup, Moisturizing, Dessert
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How to use
Ingredients
- Dried rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum(Solomon's Seal)
Instructions
- [Typical Uses]
- [Sha Shen Yu Zhu Lao Huo Tang (Moisturizing Soup)]: Simmer pork/chicken for hours with massive Yu Zhu and another root called Sha Shen (a winter/autumn staple against dryness).
- Boil sweet with white wood ears as a dessert soup (Tong Sui).
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Faint sugarcane-like sweet aroma、and clean、natural sweetness
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Irreplaceable. Boiling apple cores/peels together adds a bit of fruitiness)
Pairing
Pork Soup / Whole Chicken Soup / Sweet Wood Ear Soup
Trivia
Cantonese soups are established by crossing 'meat broth' and 'medicinal sweetness'; this Yu Zhu is the most popular, gentle ingredient building that sweetness foundation.
Eating tips & etiquette
Yellowish translucent, looking like slightly twisted flat ribbons. Even after braising, fibers remain offering a 'crisp, chewy' texture, eaten directly as an ingredient.
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