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Recipe for Chinese Dessert Soup?

Does anyone know how to make the tapioca dessert soup served in some chinese restrants? It is not thick, quite soupy and it's sweet and milky looking. There might be coconut milk in it, I'm not sure. Thanks for your help.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    all types of tapioca recipe is here, is original in thai not chinahttp://thaifood.about.com/od/thaidesserts/Deliciou...

  • 1 decade ago

    this one?

    Thai Dessert Soup

    1/4 cup large tapioca

    1 cup water

    2 tablespoons sugar

    2 cups of diced fruit or fruit, preferably fresh (select from berries, mango, papaya,pineapple, kiwi, pomegranate seed, etc.)

    2 cups thawed frozen coconut milk or almond milk

    2 tablespoons sugar, sweetened to taste (more or less)

    1 teaspoon vanilla extract (do not use artificial) or rose water

    Garnish for the bowls

    fresh mint leaves or lemon balm leaves or mandarin orange sections or 1 sprinkle pomegranate seeds or fresh edible flower (like viola, nasturtium, or rose petal)

    Boil the tapioca stirring constantly until the pearls are translucent.

    Remove from heat and stir in sugar.

    Bring back to the boil.

    Remove from heat immediately.

    Let the tapioca cool.

    Prepare your fruit.

    Slice strawberries but leave other berries whole.

    Dice other fruits.

    Stir sugar into the milk of your choice and make sure it is dissolved.

    Add extract.

    Select 4 attractive chilled bowls for your desserts.

    Put several tablespoons of tapioca pearls in each bowl.

    Divide the fruit into each bowl.

    Pour the sweetened milk over the fruit/tapioca and chill the desserts until ready to serve.

    Garnish your dessert with one of the above.

    If using flowers be sure they are pesticide free.

    If you are appealing to children, you can snip coloured marshmallows into flower shapes

    Tapioca Fruit Soup

    1 pound mixed dried fruit

    2 cups hot water

    8 cups water

    1/4 pound cherries, pitted and chopped

    1 cup granulated sugar

    1/2 cup tapioca

    1/2 cup raisins

    1 cinnamon stick

    1 lemon, peeled and sliced

    1 orange, peeled and sliced

    Soak dried fruit in hot water for 30 minutes; drain.

    In a large saucepan, combine hydrated fruit with water, cherries, sugar, tapioca, raisins, cinnamon stick, lemon slices and orange slices; stir well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tapioca is clear and soup is slightly thickened, about 1 hour.

    Remove from heat. Discard cinnamon stick before serving. Serve warm or chilled.

    Makes 16 servings.

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe the dessert is called (Oor - Ni), a traditional Teochew dessert and its suppose to be thick, not soupy.

    Link is a picture of the dessert.

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