Peach gum 桃胶 is rich in collagen for beautiful skin & wrinkle-free, cleanses blood and clears acne and prevent urinary tract infections with regular consumption. Once cook, it's jelly-like stuff texture is soft and tasteless. It’s mouth-feel can comparable to bird's nest.
As the name tells you, peach gum is actually resin that is secreted from the bark of the Chinese peach tree. It then hardens in crystal form looking like amber crystals. Therefore, it has irregular shapes, sizes, different color tone ranging from amber to translucent.
This time I'm making peach gum jelly mooncake. Love it's nice amber color. It's so refreshing and yummy. This is what I called collagen mooncake.
I added Pang Da Hai - 胖大海 into this as well. You may omit if you can't find this. If you wish to see how does it looks like, check out my previous post about this https://cookwithmi.wixsite.com/cookwithmi/post/2015/10/28/pang-da-hai-with-red-dates-honey-dates-longans-dessert
Ingredients : (makes 4)
410ml Water
8 pcs Dried Longan
3 pcs Red Dates (pitted)
7g Peach Gum (dried)
2 pcs Pandan Leaves
60g Rock Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Agar-Agar Powder
1/4 tsp Jelly Powder
1 pc Pang Da Hai - 胖大海/Sterculia Seed/Malva Nut (*optional - omit if you don't have)
1 cup Water (for soaking peach gum)
you need : 4 in 1 pcs Mooncake jelly mould
Step by Step:
1. Soak peach gum in a bowl with 1 cup of water for overnight. Note: I soaked it for 16 hours. It should expand and soft to touch. By next day, the water will be mostly absorbed by the peach gum & it expands 8-10 times it's size. For bigger piece of peach gum, the center might be still abit hard, you just need to soak them a little bit longer.
2. Pick & remove the impurities (little specks of black color stuffs). Rinse till the jelly-like peach gum until it is sufficiently clean. Drain away excess water.
3. Rinse pitted red dates, dried longans and pandan leaves before putting them into a pot. Pour in 300ml of water, bring to boil & let it boil for 30 minutes.
4. Add in soaked peach gum and pang da hai.
5. In a bowl, mix balance of 110ml of water with agar-agar powder & instant jelly powder. Pour into the boiling mixture. Add rock sugar and stir continously and bring to boil for about 10 minutes till sugar dissolves.
6. Turn off heat. Soak pot in cold water to cook down abit before pouring mixture into mooncake mould.
7. Cool down at room temperature. Then transfer to fridge to set for at least 4 hours.
8. Unmould & serve chilled.
Happy Cooking.
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