Name: Chinese Date Soup with Bubble Pudding
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Store-bought red date or red bean paste 100 g (3½ oz); Store-bought red date or red bean paste 100 g (3½ oz); Boiled water 200 ml (7 fl oz); Cooking oil 300 ml (10 fl oz); Green tea powder ½ tsp; Honey date 1; High-gluten flour (see Chef’s note) 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz); Sugar 50 g (1⅔ oz); Lard or vegetable shortening 150 g (5½ oz); Lard or vegetable shortening 150 g (5½ oz); Dried red dates (hong zao) 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz); Purple potato flour (optional) ½ tsp; Water 2 litres (64 fl oz / 8 cups); Dried red dates (hong zao) 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

New Beijing Cuisine

By Jereme Leung

Published 2010

About

Bubble pudding or paopao you gao is a dessert made from flour, shortening or lard and sugar. The paopao you gao is steamed, then fried; in the process of frying, bubbles start to form on the surface of the dough, thus creating the ‘bubble’ effect. The crisp texture of the bubble pudding sweetly punctuates the rich, velvety sweet date soup in this tribute to northern Chinese desserts.