#LOTUS SEED PASTE PLUS#

The cooking method is in the recipe footnote. In this case, you will need to bake them before using them in the pastries. They are already pre-cooked and ready to use.Īlternatively, you can also buy the uncooked whole salty duck eggs. You can find the packaged yolks at many Asian market refrigerated sections. The salty duck egg yolk is the highlight of the recipe. Store-bought red bean paste in particular tends to have more moisture, which can tamper with the dough’s ability to bake properly. I always make my own filling though, because it has a fresher taste and is less sweet, giving more balance to the pastries overall. You can follow my recipes to make them at home, which will yield tastier Dan Huang Su, but if you prefer, you can always pick them up ready-made at an Asian market near you or even order it from Amazon. The fillings of red bean paste and lotus seed paste are easy to make, too. You will need precise measurements in order for your Dan Huang Su to come out just right. One thing you can’t skip, though, is a kitchen scale. You don’t need to cool it like regular pastry dough, so you’ll save loads of time. Pastry dough may sound a bit daunting to make, but I promise this one is very easy to work with. It has very common ingredients that you should already have on hand, too, unlike with traditional mooncakes. The dough is really easy to put together if you have a stand mixer. I suggest making them on the weekend or whenever you have enough downtime to allow for the process. Making Dan Huang Su is an undertaking that will require a fairly large chunk of time. You can keep them at room temperature for 4 to 5 days, and in the fridge they’ll last about 2 weeks. These also make a perfect gift because they’re really pretty and easy to store. Dan Huang Su is tastier too.īack when I was living in Beijing, my family would always serve Dan Huang Su during the Mid-Autumn Festival instead of the traditional mooncakes. If I’m honest, I like this pastry even more than traditional mooncakes because it’s got all the essence of a mooncake, but it’s much lighter. It’s very buttery, lightly sweet yet salty, and I just love snacking on them (maybe a little too much!).

#LOTUS SEED PASTE PLUS#

The texture of Dan Huang Su is fun with its flaky dough and sticky filling, plus that chewy egg yolk.

Usually, it’s lotus seed paste or red bean paste along with a nice salted duck egg yolk. Dan Huang Su is a wonderful treat that uses a pastry surrounding to encase sweet fillings. But there’s also a special place in my heart for the trendier, more modern and hip versions that are out there today. I love traditional Chinese mooncakes for the holidays. Try something new for the Mid-Autumn Festival with the puff pastry mooncake known as Dan Huang Su, featuring flaky layers of pastry crust stuffed with a sweet filling and salted duck egg yolk.

Lotus seed paste