Eating warm, cooked food is preferred in Winter season.
Walnuts are the most tonic nut in Chinese medicine. Walnuts don’t have much fat compared to other nuts, they are not as oily…so they are less dampening than nuts like peanuts and cashews. Walnuts can nourish the Jing (Essence) or Kidney yang which is responsible for the brain activities in CM, and they even look like little brains!
This recipies is a refined-sugar free sweet snack, perfect if your craving something sweet but also for people who are a little depleted, tired or weak. If your recovering after an illness where you had vomiting or sweating, eating a little sweet flavour can be beneficial to replenish fluids.
What You’ll Need:
- A wok or a frying pan
- 1/2 – 1 cup of honey
- 1/2 cup – 1 cup of hot water
- 1/2 to 1 cup of walnuts
- pieces of grease proof paper or Aluminum foil (preferred)
METHOD:
The time lapse video shows how to make this snack which is essentially pretty easy once you get going, you just need to stay with the mixture and stir it frequently.
- In a large bowl or container, mix honey and hot water to make a diluted honey (1:1 parts) mixture.
- Add walnuts to this mixture, ensuring that the walnuts are covered in the watery honey mix. Mix thoroughly, and set aside mix in the fridge for a minimum of a few hours, up to 24hrs.
- Heat a little sesame oil in a wok or heavy base fry pan, and add your honey-walnut mixture
- Stir frequently while it’s heating up, the mixture with gradually thicken.
- Once its thickened (about twice the original constitution), you can spoon out portions onto your aluminum foil. I recommend you scoop out the portions individually now rather than store as one big lump, once it sets it’s hard to separate the portions.