Old Hanoi Sweet Potato and Ginger Pudding - Chè Khoai Lan
photo by Pneuma
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 500 g sweet potatoes, washed, peeled and diced
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 -5 slices fresh gingerroot
- 4 cups water
- arrow starch
directions
- Bring the water to the boil, and put in the sweet potato.
- When the water returns to the boil, add the ginger, and continue cooking until the potato is tender and cooked through.
- Add sugar and a little arrow starch, and allow it to dissolve completely. Then remove from the heat. Serve hot.
- P.S. If you're going to Hanoi, I really recommend this course ! http://www.hanoi-cooking.com/tip.html.
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Reviews
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After reading the other review, I cut the sugar in half. It was perfect! Not having arrowrot, I used cornstarch. I should have known to dissolve it in a bit of cold water first, lol. Everybody liked this!! I minced the ginger. There were "little sparkly bites" all through it as dh said. I wonder if the recipe says to add sliced ginger so it can be removed later? Even THE PICKY ONE liked this. With just 1/2c sugar! And I wish it had gotten smoother. Made for the Chinese/Vietnamese New Year Tag.
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As a hot thick sauce it was good enough, with a hint of sweet ginger in it, but later on as the water continued to slowly evaporate and turned to pudding, the sweetness intensified that even my DH wouldn't eat it. I really wanted to like this but I'm just so sorry that it didn't work for us. I suggest lessening the sugar in it and making clear how thick the consistency should be. Thanks anyway for letting us try this recipe.
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Me at Christmas , eyeing the mince pies , muaharhar.
I'm sixteen years old and love to cook. Seriosuly , I always bug my mum when she's coming home - " Can I boil an egg ? Do you want me to put on the pasta ? " etc - and I have little tradition where I cook a complete dinner once a fortnight. Thats' generally what I review recipes for as I don't get a chance to cook the rest of the time :(
Since I live in Hong Kong, I don't have access to a lot of the stuff most Recipezaar-ers in the US do , so I spend a lot of time filtering out refrigerated buttermilk biscuits , frozen pie shells, pastry flour and all those instant mixes >< Its' not just that I live in Hong Kong though , my pantry (physically impossible in a two-bedroom flat, but there in mind and spirit) is small.
What I always have in the kitchen : plain flour, self-raising flour, sugar, cocoa, pasta, canned beans, canned tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, some kind of cheese, low-fat yogurt, low-fat milk, water, frozen berries, muesli.
I guess a love of food is born in as I'm half-Italian. I go to Sicily every summer and its so different from here - there is this ...respect for food. I LOVE IT
The other half of me has an ex-baking grandma ( she stopped after she had no-one to fatten up ) and I think I got a bit of that too , I absolutely ADORE making cakes, cookies,muffins but I hate having them around the house . I mulled over the idea of selling my baked stuff but in the end decided I'd probably get arrested for hawking and no-one would know what I was doing anyway.
My rating system -
***** Perfect. this is for whatever the recipe claims to be, i.e. if a recipe a simple,quick, economic stew I won't give it *** for not being finicky or delicate. These are often foolproof, too :)
**** Almost perfect, but there was something missing.
*** All right . Not a bad recipe, but I didn't like it.
** Not enjoyable, but with some spark or facet with merit.
* Godawful. SORRY !
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