The sweet osmanthus and taro dessert is famous traditional dessert in Nanjing. It belongs to Jinling cuisine and Jinling snacks. The sweet osmanthus and taro dessert, osmanthus honey-stewed lotus, plum cake, and small fermented rice dumpling with red bean are known as the four most popular street foods in Jinling Nanjing.
The glabrous taro seedlings are smooth and refreshing, sweet and soft, and the soup is bright and seductive with garnet-red color and a strong osmanthus fragrance. After eating, the flavor will leave in your mouth and on your lips for a long time. The fresh taro seedlings are selected and peeled after steamed; then the special osmanthus syrup is added and slowly cooked in a large pot. When cooking, put a little bit of alkali, so that the taro seedlings will show glowing red and attractive colors after cooking.
Cooking ways:
1. Wash the taro seedlings (taro), add them to the pot with water to cook thoroughly. Take out the taro seedlings (taro) and peel them while they are hot.
2. Cut the taro into pieces, put them into the pot filled with water, add brown sugar, and simmer on a small fire until they become soft.
3. Mix the lotus root starch with a small amount of cold water and put them into the pot with repeated stirring until the sugar water appears sticky.
4. Take out and put sweet osmanthus.
