Sweet Mung Bean Dessert (Tau Suan)

 豆爽

This is one of the easiest dishes to cook at home. Once the mung beans are soaked, this dessert can be cooked in 30 minutes. Plus, we can to control how starchy, how sweet and how much mung beans to cook.

Ingredient

150g mung bean

75g rock sugar

1 litre water (to soak mung beans)

900ml water (to cook mung beans)

pandan leaves (optional)

sweet potato starch (30g sweet potato flour mixed with 50ml water)

Method

1. Wash the mung beans and soak for a few hours.

2. Drain the mung beans and steam over high-medium heat for 15 minutes. (I spread the beans on a bamboo sushi mat and put the mat on top of steaming rack.)

3. Boil a pot of water and add rock sugar and pandan leaves (if using). Turn off fire. Then slowly stir in the sweet potato starch until well combined. 

4. Add the steamed mung beans into the pot and stir to mix. Turn on the fire and bring to boil. Then turn off fire and cover the pot. Let the mung beans fluff up for 15minutes before serving.

5. Serve with youtiao (Chinese doughnut stick).