Bean jelly or agar jelly is an indigenous snack of Dali area, especially Heqing County. This kind of Bai ethnic food is normally made from chicken peas.
The soaked seeds of chicken pea are ground in order to make soya milk that is further processed into bean jelly or bean curd.
Bean jelly can be prepared by frying, or eaten as salad dish. Moreover, it can be sliced into sheets to be sundried, resulting in the local snack: bean jelly sheet.
Bean jelly sheets are indispensable for religious (mostly Buddhist) services and traditional festivals, and for religious services they have to be dyed with edible colours such as red, green and yellow.
Fried bean jelly sheet is an authentic Bai ethnic snack and even dish; sometimes, it is prepared with veggies for soups.
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