What are the common mooncake flavors? What drinks can be eaten with mooncakes?

As people's living standards continue to improve, the atmosphere of festivals is becoming more and more intense, especially our traditional festivals, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, etc. Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. When we mention Mid-Autumn Festival, we will definitely think of mooncakes. Today I will share with you what common mooncake flavors are. These are the flavors that the public likes. If you don't know which one to try, you can follow everyone's pace!

Contents of this article

1. What are the common mooncake flavors?

2. What kind of drinks can be paired with mooncakes?

3. How to store the mooncakes that you can’t finish?

What are the common mooncake flavors?

Common mooncakes have red bean paste flavors. Red bean paste mooncakes are sweet and have slightly sandy particles, which are very popular. Mooncakes with egg yolk and lotus paste fillings contain salted egg yolks, which have a salty, fragrant, soft and delicate taste. They are one of the more delicious mooncake flavors. Five-nut mooncakes have a long history and are one of the classic mooncake flavors.

Red bean paste is a common flavor of mooncakes on the market. Red bean paste is made by boiling mung beans or red beans, grinding them into a paste, adding sugar and frying them. This kind of mooncake filling is soft and sweet, and is paired with a crispy and soft crust. It is one of the most popular flavors.

The mooncake with egg yolk and lotus paste is made of salted egg yolk and white lotus paste, with crispy crust, which is one of the better mooncake flavors. Mooncakes with egg yolk and lotus paste usually have at least one salted egg yolk, and some may even have two. The egg yolk has a delicate and soft texture, and the lotus paste is sweet and delicious, which is very delicious.

The filling of the five-nut mooncake is made from a mixture of a variety of nuts, fried flour and green and red silk. The nuts are crispy and the mooncake skin is slightly sweet and soft. It is a common flavor that is popular among the elderly. The five-nut mooncake has been popular for a long time and is one of the most classic mooncake flavors.

What drinks can be paired with mooncakes?

Mooncake sour plum soup

Compared to Chinese tea, which is also ancient and fragrant but bitter in taste, the sour, sweet and light plum soup is a perfect match with mooncakes. Plum soup is rich in nutrients and is a pure natural healthy drink. After eating mooncakes, drinking a cup of plum soup can not only refresh the taste buds, but also remove the greasiness in the stomach. Moreover, plum soup is a traditional drink in my country. When paired with mooncakes, a traditional festival food, it perfectly sets off the strong traditional feelings of the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, although plum soup is good, you should be more careful when choosing it and don't choose plum soups that contain additives.

Doctors say that as long as they consume it in moderation, diabetics can also eat mooncakes.

Mooncake Red Wine

Mooncakes and red wine have been a popular fashion combination in recent years. From the perspective of health preservation, red wine contains a variety of amino acids, minerals and vitamins, which can remove the greasiness of mooncakes. However, although red wine is good, it always seems inappropriate during the traditional festival of Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover, red wine contains alcohol, which is harmful to the body. Fashion is not necessarily the best.

Nut and salty mooncakes are served with green tea

In the Cantonese mooncake family, nut mooncakes have always maintained an enduring sales position and are deeply loved by consumers. The most famous among them is the five-nut mooncake, named after the almonds, peach kernels, peanut kernels, sesame kernels and melon seeds in the filling.

Nut mooncakes have the characteristics of exquisite ingredients, thin skin, rich fillings, strong fragrance, refreshing taste, and not easy to break. When tasting, what kind of tea should be chosen to go with it? Experts suggest that you can choose to drink green tea with nut mooncakes. Green tea has the characteristics of green soup and green leaves. The brewed tea soup is green in color and has a fresh fragrance and orchid fragrance. The rich aroma of green tea can reduce the greasy feeling brought to the appetite by the variety of fillings of nut mooncakes, and make the taste buds feel refreshed.

How to store the leftover mooncakes?

If you cannot finish eating all the mooncakes at once, you can put them into a clean food bag and store them in the refrigerator’s fresh-keeping cabinet; hard mooncakes can be stored in a paper box and can be kept for ten days without spoiling.

Because mooncakes are rich in fat and sugar, they are very easy to mold and deteriorate after being exposed to heat and moisture. Even mooncakes in small packages must be stored in a cool and ventilated place.