Eating in China
Generated ingredient illustration: Jujube.

Jujube

大枣Dàzǎo

Oblong fruit with a fleshy interior and a stone; ripe skin turns red to purplish red.

Type
Fruit

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Oblong fruit with a fleshy interior and a stone; ripe skin turns red to purplish red.

In the kitchen

Added to Yanbian glutinous-rice chicken.

Cultivars vary; this is Ziziphus jujuba fruit.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有大枣吗?

Does this dish contain Jujube?

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