Tasty Treat Tuesday: J-E-L-L-O Asian style
I mentioned in my post yesterday that Carrie and Aidan could eat, during their fabulous and casual date, an exotic dessert that has lychee fruit and almond jello.
If you’ve ever been to dim sum at a Chinese restaurant, you might have seen almond jello served in tiny cups with that classic 1950s fruit cocktail (cherries, pears, peaches and pineapple).
This dessert conjures up such great childhood memories for me. I can see the grim waitresses with their rolling carts and hear my father barking in Cantonese as he orders one after another of delicious shrimp dumplings, pork buns and Hong Kong-style noodles. I almost never had the chance to order the almond jello because we ate so many great dim sum dishes and I was always too full, But, every once in a while, my mom would make it for a special occasion. I love that something as simple and pedestrian as almond-flavored jello and canned cocktail fruit can delight one’s senses.
Here are a few links to recipes for almond jello. It’s very easy and I like to add canned lychee fruit for extra exotic delight.
Almond Jello with Fruit Cocktail
An Australian almond jello recipe
And one more time, for the cheap seats in the back…
Serve the almond jello and canned fruit in something fun, like a martini glass or those new stemless wine glasses that are all the rage. This dessert compliments jasmine tea or genmaicha (brown rice tea) perfectly.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Almond jello is one of my all-time favorite desserts. When I was in Mexico I found that they do something similar only with walnuts, or sometime anise or eggnogg. Yum!!!