🇨🇳 Chinese Cuisine

糖葫芦 (Tang Hu Lu)

Tanghulu

Prep Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Difficulty Easy

Skewered hawthorn berries coated in a hard candy shell, a beloved Beijing street snack. The contrast between the sour fruit and sweet crunchy coating is addictive.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Wash and dry fruit thoroughly, remove stems and seeds from hawthorns.
  2. 2 Thread five or six fruits onto each bamboo skewer.
  3. 3 Boil sugar and water until it reaches hard crack stage at 150C.
  4. 4 Quickly dip each skewer into the hot sugar, rotating to coat evenly.
  5. 5 Place on oiled parchment to harden, which takes only seconds in cold air.

Did You Know?

Tanghulu dates back to the Song Dynasty and was originally made as medicine, with the sugar coating intended to make bitter herbs palatable.