🥮 Lotus seed mooncake

Name: Lotus seed mooncake
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: China · Guangdong
Ingredients: 200 g plain flour; 130 g golden syrup; 50 ml vegetable oil, 1/2 tsp alkaline water; 600 g lotus seed paste; 8 salted egg yolks; 1 egg yolk for glazing

Origin: China · Guangdong

410kcal

per serving · 100 g

410kcal

per 100 g

7 gProtein7 g / 100 g

14 gFat14 g / 100 g

63 gCarbs63 g / 100 g

The classic Cantonese mooncake is a round baked pastry with a thin, glossy golden crust pressed with decorative patterns. Inside is a dense, smooth and sweet lotus seed paste around one or two salted egg yolks, which add a rich, savoury contrast and look like a full moon when sliced. Mooncakes are cut into small wedges and shared with tea.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Not veganbecause of: salted egg yolk

Contains glutenbecause of: pastry

Not keto63 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs

What it is made of

pastrylotus seed pastesalted egg yolk

Recipe

8 servings120 min

Ingredients

200 g plain flour
130 g golden syrup
50 ml vegetable oil, 1/2 tsp alkaline water
600 g lotus seed paste
8 salted egg yolks
1 egg yolk for glazing

Method

Mix the syrup, oil and alkaline water, then stir in the flour to a soft dough; rest for 1 hour.
Divide the lotus paste into 8 balls and wrap each around a salted yolk.
Divide the dough into 8 pieces, flatten each and wrap around a filling ball.
Press into a mooncake mould and turn out onto a lined tray.
Bake at 180 °C for 5 minutes, brush with egg yolk and bake 12–15 minutes more until golden.

How to make it lighter

A whole mooncake is a lot; cut it into 4–8 wedges and share it.
Choose versions without the egg yolk or with a single yolk.
Pair a small slice with unsweetened tea instead of a sweet drink.

History

Mooncakes are eaten and given as gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather to admire the full moon. The Cantonese style with lotus paste and salted yolk is the best known version today; the popular story that messages hidden in mooncakes helped an uprising against Mongol rule is a legend.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →