Chinese sweets

Who faced with Chinese cuisine is not by hearsay, certainly tried the famous cookies with predictions or divinely delicious apples in caramel.

We offer to prepare such Chinese sweets at home in the kitchen and to please and surprise them with their relatives or guests.

Traditional Chinese sweetness "Cookies with predictions" - recipe

Ingredients:

• wheat flour - 110 g;
• butter peasant creamy - 65 g;
• powdered sugar - 155 g;
• egg whites - 125 g;
• ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.

Preparation

1. Among a wide range of all kinds of Chinese sweets, a special place is occupied by cookies with predictions. First of all, for preparation of these, in addition to the necessary ingredients from the list, it is necessary to prepare narrow notes from paper on which predictions, wishes or aphorisms will be printed or written by hand.
2. To prepare the dough, melt the butter in a small saucepan and leave to cool.
3. In the meantime, we sift the powder sugar and flour, determining the ingredients in a bowl for kneading.
4. Add the egg whites to the sweet flour. For 125 g, you need about three large or four medium chicken eggs.
5. Last we pour the already cooled melted butter and mix the mass with a spoon or spatula.
6. After obtaining a homogeneous texture of the dough, mix in it ground cinnamon. In this case, you can not limit yourself to one kind of spice and add others to your choice and taste.
7. Now proceed to the design and baking of the liver. On a little oiled sheet of parchment, apply a thin layer of dough, making round cakes with a diameter of eight to ten centimeters. To make the edges smoother, it is better to use a ring of identical diameter as the shape.
8. The oven for the preparation of products must be preheated to 180 degrees.
9. We dispose the baking tray with the blanks at the middle level of the device and bake the products until they are red along the edges.
10. Now, at the center of each hot mug, put a folded note, fold the product in half in the form of a crescent. After that, in addition, as it were, put the biscuits on the edge of a cup or glass. Such a simple trick will allow you to get the necessary form of Chinese cookies. But it is necessary to do this while the products are hot, since after cooling they become fragile.
11. If desired, you can decorate the products to your taste, decorated with fondant or glaze.

Apples in caramel in Chinese

Ingredients:

• apples (Antonov) - 520 g;
• starch - 160 g;
• sugar brown - 190 g;
• olive oil - 55 ml;
• Sunflower oil without fragrance - 650 ml;
• sesame seeds - a few pinch;
• the water is cold.

Preparation

1. To prepare this dessert from Chinese cuisine, you need to clean the washed apples from the peel, remove the seed boxes and cut into thick slices or, if small apples, quarters.
2. Two-thirds of the total starch is diluted with cold water until a thick batter is obtained, and the remaining starch is poured into the bowl.
3. In a thick-walled saucepan, cauldron or a deep frying pan, warm the sunflower oil without fragrance for frying.
4. Now, every apple slice is breaded in dry starch, then dipped in starch batter and immediately put the products into the incandescent oil.
5. After acquiring a delicacy of golden blush, we extract it into a bowl and start preparing caramel.
6. Pour olive oil into the frying pan, pour brown sugar and, with continuous stirring, heat the mass to caramel color.
7. Immediately put into the finished caramel apples, stir and shake the sesame seeds.