How To Make Candied Strawberries – Tanghulu Recipe
Tanghulu has glazed candied strawberries or any other fruits with a delish crunchy coating of caramelized sugar. It is the most popular candied fruit snack in the street food of northern china. This delicious candy strawberry is super easy and worth trying. So simple, quick yet delicious. The combination of juicy, soft strawberries with a hot candy crunch is incredible. Serve this delicacy with a quick and easy almond cake.
Key Ingredients You Need to Prepare Delicious Tanghulu Recipe
- Sugar, water, or your chosen fruit.
- You can go for grapes, berries, apples, kiwi, and orange slices. I recommend strawberries.
- Corn syrup or honey are also used.
The essential purpose of using corn syrup or honey is to prevent the crystallization of sugar syrup to stick well to fruits.
Tanghulu Recipe
Equipment
- Candy thermometer or instant-read thermometer
- Toothpicks, bamboo skewers, or lollipop sticks
- A Square baking sheet
- Parchment paper or silicone baking mat
Materials
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup honey
- 20 fresh strawberries
Instructions
- Wash and pat dry strawberries with a kitchen towel. There must be no moisture on the strawberries' surface because sugar syrups would not stock to moist strawberries.
Use fresh strawberries for best results
- Insert bamboo skewers or toothpicks into the stem of strawberries. You can also use lollipop sticks. You can also cut the stem if you want. Put 4 strawberries in each skewer. Do not overcrowd.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Pour sugar, water, honey into a saucepan. Do not stir; swirl the pan only. Let it boil on medium flame until sugar melts completely. It will take 15 minutes.
- Insert a candy thermometer or instant-read thermometer and heat until it reaches to300F. Turn off the heat.
4 Easy Step to Prepare Tanghulu Candied Strawberries
How to MakeTanghulu Recipe Without a Thermometer
- If you do not have a candy thermometer, no worries; here is a simple method to check the right temperature.
- Take a bowl, add chilled water, put some drops of caramel mixture; if it hardens, then it’s ready to use as candy coating for scrumptious candied strawberries.
- Dip the strawberries into sugar syrup, swirl to cover each strawberry evenly.
- Drip off the excess sugar syrup.
- Place coated caramelized strawberries on prepared parchment paper.
- Let it sit for a few minutes. Serve within 30 minutes because strawberries contain a lot of moisture and would soften as these rest.
- You also have the option to refrigerate if you do not want to use it immediately.
- After dipping the candy strawberries, the pan will be covered with hardened Candy.
- Pour hot water into the saucepan and leave for 15 minutes.
- It will clean from all sides.
- You do not need any other trick because this super easy trick works wonders!
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