Honey Lemon Fruit Roll-Up
During the initial Covid-19 days, some people went on a panic-buying spree, and the toilet, kitchen papers run out for some time. It is a human instinct for normal people to be scared naturally. As I am also a normal human being, of course, I was scared too. I bought some food for the family in big bulk. In that panic buying, I grab a big bag of lemon to make citrus marmalade for breakfast toast. Unfortunately, it didn't happen and it ended up in a bottle of saltwater. First I thought of turning this salted lemon into the Indian-style lemon pickle, but I still have one jar of homemade lemon pickle. That slated lemon bottle has been sitting on my windowsill in the sunlight for a few months. Then I got the idea of making lemon roll-up like fruit roll-up that the children ate.
We used to eat lemon preserve with licorice powder a long time ago for digestion purposes. Sometimes it is a refreshing snack that has the sharp sour and salty taste. In the olden days back in Myanmar, we did not have imported snacks but only local made fruit preserve with its own authentic flavor. A variety of fruit preserves are still in my mind as the memories of olden days. Among them spicy mango Preserve was a wholesome childhood fruit snack. The fruit snacks I saw here are not real fruit. But just jellies with fruit juice flavors. Our Myanmar version of fruit snacks used to be our favorite snack every time we travel back home and my mom prepared those snacks, food for kids in a basket.
Garlic flavored roasted peanuts, potato chips, and fruit snacks are our favorite snacks for the road trip in the Summer. My mom put in a lot of effort to cook good Myanmar food to bring as a picnic lunch on the road. We will never forget how she cared about the family and for her husband ( our father). Once I made abowl of noodle salad for my father and placed it on the lunch table like that, I remembered how she scolded me " How can you serve your father in this way" . Since that day I learned to always serve food to our father with respect and manners.
In this lemon rolls, the licorice powder has its own medicinal value. In the Burmese term, ( Nwe Cho). We can also search in Wikipedia or google about it since our learning world is endless on this worldwide web. We can always can help one another kindly with our knowledge. Wish and hope all the people in this world be in good health to pass this Covid_ 19 scare.
Honey Lemon fruit roll-ups
Ingredients
5 count salted lemon.
1 count fresh lemon
1 cup Brown sugar
1 cup White sugar
1 cup Jaggry powder ( palm sugar)
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp Licorice powder
3 tbsp Honey
Instruction
1. Cut a fresh lemon into 4 wedges and add it in the pressure cooker
2. Rinse out the salted lemon with cold water and add those into the pressure cooker.
3. Add sugar, brown sugar, salt and Jeggary powder then add water till all the lemon are submerged.
4. Pressure cook for 30 minutes and let it cool then test it if the fruits soften.
Smash and crush the meat of the fruit into small pieces with the wooden spatular. Some people may use blender or chopper to make it easier but we may lose the fruit peel texture.
5. On medium-high heat, we need to add this boiled crushed fruit in the pan and let it simmer for a long time to thicken the fruit mixture. Add the Licorice powder when it starts thickening.
6. When all the water is evaporated, spread the fruit mixture on the tray to let it dry. In Burma, we could let it dry in the sun with the 100-degree heat of the sun.
7. For me, I have no choice but to use the food dehydrator for 6 to 12 hours.
8. When it is dried up, let it cool in the tray for 6 more hours.
9. The fruit snack is now ready to peeled off from the tray. We may cut into small pieces into individual square shape sizes ( 0.5*0.5) inch and store in the Jar in the fridge, for months.
10. We may try the same method of cooking the ripen mago puree with sugar to make the mango roll up too. It was also my favorite childhood fruit snack called Thayat Pyin ( Myanmar name) .
