Tanghulu

Tanghulu is made with skewers of fresh fruit dipped in a hard sugar coating. Made with just 3 ingredients, it's so simple, easy, and fun to make!

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Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Chinese

Keyword: tanghulu

Servings: people

Wash and dry your fruit fully. Add the fruits to a wooden skewer (you can do as few as 1 or several. Just make sure you can easily dip them in the sugar syrup.)
In a medium pot add the sugar and water. Do not stir.
Warm up over medium-low to medium heat until boiling and it reaches about 300F. Be patient, this can take between 10-20 minutes (If you don't have a thermometer you can check if it is ready by dipping a spoon or wooden skewer and immediately dipping it in ice water. If it hardens within seconds and cracks when you bend it, it is ready. If it dissolves in the water or is soft and bendy, then let the syrup simmer longer and test again.)
When the sugar syrup is ready, turn the temperature all the way down, then work very quickly and carefully dipping the fruits in the sugar syrup, tilting the pot and rotating the skewer around to fully coat the fruit on all sides.
Allow the sugar to drip off the fruit so you have a very thin coating.
Then immediately dip in the ice water for 3 seconds to allow the sugar mixture to harden.
Serve immediately.