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Lotus seeds used for making sweet soup are usually fresh lotus seeds. When cooking, the lotus seed embryos are removed, washed, and steamed until cooked. Then, they are added to a pot and cooked with white granulated sugar water until it gently boils so the sweetness of the sugar can penetrate the lotus seeds.
Delicious and refreshing lotus seed and aloe vera sweet soup
It sounds simple, but to get a delicious pot of sweet soup, temperature is the most important factor. The cook must control the heat just enough so the lotus seeds are neither overcooked nor undercooked. If they are overcooked, they will be mushy and lose their characteristic lotus flavor, but if they are not cooked enough, the lotus seeds will be hard and the fragrance will not be rich. Besides, during the cooking process, you must use chopsticks to stir evenly and gently so that the lotus seeds are cooked evenly and release a fragrant aroma.
When the lotus seeds are just cooked, turn off the heat, add some shredded coconut meat, scoop into a glass, add some ice, and enjoy. The lotus seeds are soft, nutty, and have a slight sweetness from the sugar water; the slightly fatty and crunchy texture of the shredded coconut meat makes for a cool and delicious dish. The gentle, cool fragrance of the lotus is like a light breeze dispelling the heat on a sweltering summer day.
Agar jelly with pomegranate-shaped tapioca is a favorite dish of many people, especially teenagers in hot weather.
The name itself reveals the ingredients of the dish, which are agar jelly and 'pomegranate seeds'. The 'pomegranate seeds' are actually water chestnuts that are peeled, diced, and coated with a layer of tapioca starch so that they have a chewy and crunchy texture when eaten. The agar jelly is prepared very simply; you just need to soak the agar until soft, put it on the stove, stir well, then let it cool and cut it into bite-sized strips.
Agar jelly with pomegranate-shaped tapioca is both delicious and eye-catching
A colorful glass of sweet soup; when enjoying it, you will feel the light, cool sweetness of the 'pomegranate seeds', the crunchiness and chewiness of the outer tapioca starch layer, along with the rich and delicious coconut milk. This is a delicious dish that has the effect of curing insomnia and cooling the body. In addition to the agar jelly and 'pomegranate seeds', people also add red beans and layered rice cakes to this delicious dish.
Mung beans have cooling and detoxifying effects, so they are used as ingredients to prepare many delicious and nutritious dishes on hot days. Many delicious dishes cooked from mung beans can be mentioned here, such as: mung bean and aloe vera sweet soup, mung bean and red bean sweet soup, mung bean and lotus root sweet soup, mung bean and seaweed sweet soup...
Mung bean and seaweed sweet soup – A simple dish that helps cool the body effectively
Among the dishes mentioned above, mung bean and seaweed sweet soup is the simplest and easiest to prepare. The seaweed is soaked until soft and sliced, while the mung beans are kept with the skin on, washed, and stewed until soft. When the beans are just cooked, add sugar to taste. Then you add the sliced seaweed; you can add coconut milk and pandan leaves if you like.
Mung bean and seaweed sweet soup is a nutritious dish; you can eat it hot or with ice. The crunchy seaweed strips, the nuttiness of the mung beans, and the rich coconut milk blend with the faint aroma of pandan leaves, all creating a very unique characteristic flavor for this simple mung bean sweet soup.
You can enjoy the sweet soup dishes mentioned above at any sweet soup shop in Hanoi at a very affordable price, from about 10,000 VND to 15,000 VND.
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