椰蓉 (yēróng) · desiccated coconut

Meanings

1 desiccated coconut
2 shredded coconut (baking ingredient)

About the ingredient

Dried, grated coconut flesh, white and fragrant, sold in bags for baking. Bakeries fill and coat buns with it, roll sticky rice balls in it and mix it into mooncake and pastry fillings.

Used in 1 dish

糯米糍 nuòmǐcí

Characters

finely shredded / paste

Examples

HSK 5

椰蓉月饼是中秋节的经典选择。

Yēróng yuèbing shì Zhōngqiūjié de jīngdiǎn xuǎnzé.

Coconut-flake mooncake is a classic Mid-Autumn Festival choice.

HSK 7-9

椰蓉面包一口下去满嘴椰香。

Yēróng miànbāo yì kǒu xiàqù mǎnzuǐ yē xiāng.

One bite of coconut bun fills your mouth with coconut aroma.

Tips

usage

蓉 is a useful suffix meaning 'finely shredded / paste' in culinary vocabulary: 椰蓉 coconut flakes, 蒜蓉 minced garlic, 莲蓉 lotus-seed paste, 豆蓉 mung-bean paste. Recognizing 蓉 in food names tells you the ingredient has been reduced to fine shreds or smooth paste.