Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit

Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit

Overview

Today’s last article is the belated Chinese Valentine’s Day fruit, a traditional food during the Chinese Valentine’s Day in southern Fujian. Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also called the Qixi Festival. The Qixi Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the Chinese Valentine's Day. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the lunar calendar, our hometown will make a traditional food, Qixi Guo, which is actually a glutinous rice ball made of glutinous rice flour, dipped in white sugar and crushed peanuts, similar to glutinous rice cakes. Think about it, isn’t that what food is all about? Food made from the same ingredients has different shapes, and is called differently in different festivals and places. Many of our families now rarely cook this kind of traditional food. After all, everything is readily available for sale, so it is more convenient to just buy some. Our family still makes it every year. After all, it is not troublesome, and it feels more secure to eat when you make it yourself.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Material diagram

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 1

  2. Wash the peanuts and dry them

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 2

  3. Put peanuts in the wok without oil and fry until cooked

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 3

  4. Take out the heat

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 4

  5. When the peanuts are not hot, rub them off with your hands while they are still hot

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 5

  6. Slowly add boiled water to the glutinous rice flour and stir until it becomes fluffy. Wait until it is not hot and then knead it into a dough

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 6

  7. Take a small piece of noodles and roll it into a long strip. Divide it into glutinous rice balls and roll it into balls. Use your thumbs to press down into the middle to form a nest shape

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 7

  8. Tanabata fruits prepared in sequence

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 8

  9. Put the peanut kernels into a stone spoon and mash them

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 9

  10. Boil some water in a pot and put in the Chinese Valentine’s Day fruits

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 10

  11. Just cook until the Chinese Valentine’s Day fruits float

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 11

  12. Fish out the Chinese Valentine’s Day fruit

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 12

  13. Add an appropriate amount of white sugar to the crushed peanuts and mix well. Dip the cooked Chinese Valentine's Day fruit into the crushed peanuts and white sugar before eating

    Southern Fujian Chinese Valentine’s Day Fruit step 13