My Curious Kitchen

Tanghulu, also known as bingtanghulu, is a traditional Chinese snack. It usually use hawthorn berries as the base fruits. The sweet and sour taste of the hawthorn berries combined with the sugary coating creates a delicious and unique flavor.

Since I can’t find hawthorn berries in the supermarket, I am using strawberry in my Tanghulu.

Prepare Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

• A box of strawberry
• 100g sugar
• 100g water
• Some bamboo skewers

Directions:

• Rinse the strawberry and dry the strawberry with paper towel. Then remove the stems.
• Pop the strawberry onto the bamboo skewer.
• Add the sugar and water into a pot. Turn the heat on high.
• Once the water starts to bubble, turn the heat to medium low.
• Once the syrup starts to show a light yellow color, turn off the heat immediately.
• Quickly dip the strawberry into the syrup and put it on a baking sheet to cool
• Once completely cool down, the tanghulu is ready!

Tips:

• It’s important to pat the fruits dry.
• Once the water starts to bubble, it’s important to turn the heat to medium low.
• Pay attention to the syrup color. It’s easy to undercook or overcook the syrup.
• For more crispy shell, you can set the tanghulu in refrigerator for about 10 mins.