Snow Lotus Seed / Saponin Rice (Xue Lian Zi / Zao Jiao Mi)
楊貴妃のシークレット！水で膨らむ「透明な植物コラーゲン」
Description
Dried seeds of the legume Gleditsia sinensis (Chinese honey locust). Alias 'Zao Jiao Mi'. A beauty dry good fanatically supported by Chinese women as a 'block of plant collagen (gelatin)'. Rehydrating turns it transparent, expanding multiple times into a 'bouncy' tapioca-like texture.
Classification: Popular among women, Ingredient, Dry Goods, Zao Jiao Mi, Xue Lian Zi, Dessert, Beauty, Plant Collagen, Bouncy
Shops selling Snow Lotus Seed / Saponin Rice (Xue Lian Zi / Zao Jiao Mi)
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How to use
Ingredients
- Gleditsia sinensis seeds(Dried)
Instructions
- [Typical Uses]
- [Peach Gum, Snow Swallow & Lotus Seed Soup (Ultimate Triple Beauty Sweet)]: Simmer this Xue Lian Zi meltingly soft with rock sugar and milk alongside fellow plant collagen dry goods 'Tao Jiao' (Peach sap) and 'Xue Yan' (Pingpong sap). The drinkable esthetic Chinese beauty girls mandatorily eat on weekends.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Tasteless and odorless. Premium jelly texture like gummies or tapioca: 'chewy、bouncy'
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Substitute texture with tapioca pearls or Nata de coco
Pairing
Tao Jiao (Peach Gum) / White Wood Ear / Rock Sugar / Papaya
Trivia
Sold as 'Snow Lotus Seed', but it's a different plant from the alpine 'Snow Lotus' (given a beautiful name for marketing).
Eating tips & etiquette
Looks like 'yellowish hard plastic crescents' when dry. Rather than rehydrating, it's an ingredient that 'absorbs water to gelatinize'; braising gives the whole soup a natural thickness, filling the mouth with moisture.
Allergen
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