Home Made Lu Dou Sha – Chinese Dessert
I was thinking about a refreshing dessert that is simple to make and refreshing would be the Chinese Mung Bean Soup
Ingredients:
1/2 cup dried green bean
1/4 cup rock sugar
4 cup of water
First thing you have to do is clean and soak the green beans. Keep in mind that the green beans swells up and doubles in size after soaking.
Once you finished soaking the beans – I did mine overnight, but a good rule is to soak at least 4 hours.
Boil the soaked green beans with rock sugar in water. Once the water boils, turn down the heat to a simmer. The green beans will become soft and swell up.
Once the beans started swelling up, basically you’re boiling out the water to the consistency that you like the dessert to be.
We like our dessert to be more on the thicker side, but I must admit – I’ve over done it on mine! I didn’t feel like adding more water to it since the sweetness was perfect, and it wasn’t bad having it thicker either!
This is a dessert where you can enjoy it hot or cold, and it tastes great both ways as well! I found once chilled, it becomes a little bit thicker as well, and less sweet. It’s a refreshing dessert!
