How to make soft, sweet and cool Taiwanese Aiyu jelly at home

Prepare
5 Minutes Processing
60 Minutes For
1 – 2 people

The weather on summer days becomes sultry, cool dishes and drinks are always the first choice to cool off. Here, Tnhelearning.edu.vn shares how to make Taiwanese Aiyu jelly which is super easy but also delicious, easy to make at home. Follow along!

Ingredients for Taiwan Aiyu Jelly

• 10g Aiyu seeds (seeds, cotton seeds)
• 500ml filtered water
• 3 fresh lemons
• Seasoning: Brown sugar

Good tip
Mac Pop or Aiyu seeds are seeds from wild plants in Cao Bang, when dried, they have a light yellow-brown color, a characteristic aroma, and are often used to make jelly. Currently, you can find and buy these nuts at specialty stores of Cao Bang or on large and reputable e-commerce sites such as Shopee, Lazada, … with prices ranging from 100,000 to 400,000 VND/kg.

– For fresh lemons, you choose a medium-sized fruit, with a bright green skin, shiny and fresh, when you feel firm, succulent, lightly pressing the peel will have essential oils ejected.
Avoid buying lemons that have a strong smell or lemons with yellow or unusual skin.

Ingredients for Taiwan Aiyu Jelly

How to make Taiwanese Aiyu Jelly

Step 1Making Aiyu Jelly

First, you put about 3 tablespoons of neem seeds in a filter bag , place the bag in a large bowl and pour in 400 ml of boiled and cooled filtered water .

You use your hands to gently rub the bag of seeds so that the seeds come out plastic for about 10-15 minutes , when the water turns yellow and the bag is no longer viscous, squeeze the bag to get all the water out.

Then, leave the bowl of water for 1 hour to freeze or put it in the refrigerator.

Making Aiyu Jelly

Step 2Prepare lemon juice and sugar

Next, you cut 2 lemon leaves for garnish, the remaining lemon you cut and squeeze the juice. Then, you put 100ml of filtered water into a container containing 100g of brown sugar , stir until the sugar dissolves. If you want to drink sweeter, you can mix it with a ratio of water and sugar of 1:1.

Preliminary preparation of fresh lemon, prepare sugar water to serve

Step 3Finished product

After 1 hour, the original bowl of water has frozen into Aiyu jelly, then you cut it into small pieces, put it in another bowl and add a little sugar water and lemon juice on top and you can enjoy it.

Put the jelly in a bowl, drizzle sugar and lemon juice on top

Enjoy

Aiyu jelly is super easy to make, sweet and cool

Aiyu jelly is super easy to make, sweet and cool flavor makes the whole person feel refreshed. You can make honey lemon tea, adding Aiyu jelly as a topping is also quite delicious, eating with this jelly in this hot season is really the right lesson, both cool the body but also good for health.

Above is how to make simple Taiwanese Aiyu jelly at home, Tnhelearning.edu.vn wishes you success when making this dish for the first time!

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