Sweet Chen Pi Red Bean Soup
The sweet red bean soup is a common dessert to wrap up a meal in Chinese restaurants. It is easy to make and requires only a few ingredients you can store in the pantry.
Ingredients
- 250 g Dried Red Beans
- 20 g Dried Lotus Seeds
- 20 g Dried Lily Bulbs
- 2 g Dried Mandarin Peels
- 130 g Brown Sugar
- 6 cups Water
Instructions
- Wash red bean, lotus seeds, lily bulbs and mandarin peels
- Soak mandarin peels into water for 20 minutes
- Put red beans into a pot with a bit of water
- Bring to boil for 10 mins, drain the beans and set aside
- Scrape the white bits out from the mandarin peel (the more white bits you can peel off, the less bitter taste)
- Put lotus seeds and lily bulbs into a pot with some water, bring to boil for 10 mins, drain the ingredients and set aside
- Put 4 cups of water into a pot, add in the mandarin peels, bring to boil for 10 mins, keep the liquid
- Finely chop up the mandarin peels and the sugar
- Add the chopped up mandarin peels, lotus seeds, lily bulbs and red beans into the liquid from step 8
- Bring to boil on high heat, turn to low heat for 45 mins, drain the ingredients, and keep the liquid
- Crush the red beans through a sieve to achieve a gritty texture
- Put the liquid from 12 back into the pot, add in extra 2 cups of water and chopped brown sugar
- Add all ingredients back to the pot when sugar has been fully dissolved, bring to boil on low heat for 30 mins, and ready to serve