Arrowroot marinated with grapefruit flowers
Grapefruit-marinated cassava is an attractive drink that many people know. In the hot summer, enjoying a cup of sweet and cool cassava juice, imbued with the scent of grapefruit flowers, and adding a little lemon juice is enough to dispel the uncomfortable heat of summer. Making grapefruit-marinated cassava is quite a laborious task, so not many people do it at home. That's why, although simple, the bags of pure white cassava powder, mixed with dried grapefruit petals, cassava with the fragrant scent of grapefruit, ensuring quality, are still precious gifts for gifts.
Grapefruit blossom syrup
Many Hanoi snacks would not be complete without the aroma of pomelo flowers. These include tofu pudding, lotus seed sweet soup, moon cakes, pomelo sweet soup... the core of these dishes is pomelo flower syrup. The preparation is not too complicated, the pomelo flower is cleaned of its calyx and pistil, then soaked in sugar in a 1:1 ratio and covered tightly. The sugar slowly melts into a thick, fragrant liquid that is favored for use in many dishes.
Sugarcane marinated with grapefruit flowers
Grapefruit flowers are often used to marinate sugarcane. This rustic dish originated from the ancient Hanoians. Simply peel the sugarcane, cut it into pieces, put it in a box with washed grapefruit flowers, cover it tightly and refrigerate it for a few hours before eating. The cool, sweet sugarcane, combined with the light fragrance of grapefruit flowers, is a flavor that many people remember.
Elegant dishes with a hint of grapefruit flavor have also become one of the unique culinary features of the capital's people.
Ngoc Anh
