Chinese Sweet Red Bean Soup
photo by FLKeysJen
- Ready In:
- 26hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1⁄3 - 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 cup red beans (soaked in cold water overnight)
- 1⁄3 cup dried lotus seeds (at asian grocery stores or health food stores, soaked in cold water overnight)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 cup pearl tapioca (optional)
- 1⁄4 cup glutten rice balls (can be found at asian grocery stores) (optional)
- 7 cups water
directions
- Combine water and beans in a large pot, bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer, cook uncovered till beans are tender (about 2 hours?).
- Add lotus seed and sugar (plus tapioca and rice balls if you choose to), cook until soup thickens a little and lotus seeds are tender, but not mushy (20 minutes).
- Add vanilla, serve hot for a perfect winter dessert, or you can let the soup cool down, then add ice.
- With this basic recipe, you can take out all the beans, increase the amount of lotus seeds and have a lotus seeds sweet soup instead.
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Reviews
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This soup is great but the recipe doesn't really tell you how to cook the tapioca or what kind of tapioca to use (like flour or pearls). I used tapioca pearls but by the time the beans were done the pearls weren't fully cooked. I searched the internet and found out that it's best to cook the pearls separately, dip them in a solution of water and brown sugar to give them a sweet taste, and finally add them to the dessert. I also recommend adding coconut milk to the soup to make it more flavorful. This is what I did and in the end it turned out pretty good.
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