How to make jasmine-scented sugar water to use all year round

May 29, 2022 17:37 GMT+7

Every May occasion is also the season of jasmine flowers in full bloom. The thin, pure white flowers with a characteristic fragrant scent, sometimes faint, sometimes bold, make many people nostalgic.

To preserve the scent of that summer flower, there are many ways, from marinating tea, marinating tapioca flour to extracting distilled water… However, there is a simple, less time-consuming way that can still preserve the floral scent. to enjoy during the summer and throughout the year. It is cooking sugar water marinated with jasmine flavor.

Cooking jasmine sugar water is not difficult, but the most important thing for this dish to be successful and safe for health is to choose safe jasmine flowers, without spraying chemicals or bloom stimulants.

Ideally, you can grow a jasmine plant in your home to both enjoy the aroma, enjoy the color, and use the flower to prepare dishes. Growing jasmine is not difficult, nor does it require a lot of land, even urban families can grow and care for it. If you cannot grow your own flowers, you should choose a guaranteed source.

Sugar water marinated with jasmine flavor is cooked in the ratio of 1 part sugar, 1/2 part fresh jasmine flowers, 2 parts filtered water. According to this recipe, you can balance the ingredients according to the desired amount. For example, if using 50g of fresh jasmine flowers, add 100g of sugar and 200ml of filtered water. If you want the sugar water to have a strong sweet taste, you can use apricot sugar, jaggery; And for sugar water to have a sweet, fresh, jasmine flavor, rock sugar is a suitable choice.

How to cook:

Choose jasmine flowers that have just bloomed, petals are not bruised, yellow, black spots… Gently wash each flower, drain.

Put the sugar and water in a pot, stir well, simmer until the sugar dissolves. Let the sugar water cool down.

When the sugar water is still warm, drop the pre-processed jasmine flowers into the sugar water, leave for about 2 hours for the flower flavor to permeate the sugar water.

Then, drain the sugar water, filter out the soaked flowers. This flower part can be used to make instant tea. The sugar water marinated with jasmine flowers is stored in the refrigerator and used gradually.

There are many ways to enjoy sugar water with jasmine flavor such as: Using sugar water to sweeten the dishes of mung bean soup, black beans, areca flower tea, too pho, soft drinks, tapioca flour, or as a reward. Enjoy with tea… The faint scent of jasmine flowers will make summer sweets more appealing both in flavor and taste.

According to phuuvietnam.vn