Lotus Seed Sweetness Soup
Jumat, 01 Juli 2011
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Lotus seed sweetness soup is an old-fashioned Chinese dessert. It's a thick caramel soup amongst soft, powdery lotus seeds.
I was buying lotus seeds when a boyfriend
Whilst I pondered the interrogation (and sized her up), she told me hers were soundless difficult after soaking overnight together with simmering for 2 hours!
Ah yes, my woman bring upwards had warned me near that. I said to the lady (after deciding she wasn't trying to sell me something), "You mustn't allow lotus seeds behave upon mutual frigidness water, otherwise they won't soften. You accept to launder them inwards hot H2O and, when yous seat them inwards the pot, the H2O must hold upwards boiling." By soaking lotus seeds inwards hot H2O which became mutual frigidness overnight, she had violated the golden rule: no mutual frigidness water!
What I told the lady was what my woman bring upwards had told me. But, whilst I followed Mom's method, I persuasion her alert near mutual frigidness H2O was merely an onetime wives' tale.
I'd never tested my mother's theory, because I couldn't mean value of whatever argue why or how H2O at 30°C or thereabouts could accept an resultant on lotus seeds. However, judging from what the lady said, it seemed the golden dominion powerfulness accept some basis.
I had no persuasion whether the boyfriend shopper went domicile together with tried my mother's method, but I came domicile together with tried hers. I wanted to come across if I could replicate her problem, together with evidence my woman bring upwards right.
I soaked some lotus seeds inwards room temperature H2O for 1.5 hours, together with then popped them inwards boiling water. I together with then placed some dry out lotus seeds inwards a newspaper pouch, together with seat that inwards the boiling H2O every bit well.
xxx minutes later, the lotus seeds inwards the newspaper pouch were perfectly soft together with powdery. Those that had been soaked were soundless hard.
Hah, my woman bring upwards was right!
The soaked lotus seeds weren't difficult throughout but merely on the outside. I continued the simmering together with after some other xxx minutes, the outer layer softened. It was, however, cracked together with non powdery, together with the within was also mushy past times then.
The unsoaked seeds, inwards contrast, had a smoothen exterior, together with were evenly cooked together with evenly powdery.
If I'd soaked the lotus seeds longer, similar the lady who had left hers overnight, I mean value the hardened outer layer would accept been thicker together with harder.
I approximate mutual frigidness H2O has an resultant on the starch inwards the lotus seeds' outer layer. Why together with how exactly, I accept no idea. But it's skillful to know my woman bring upwards wasn't pulling a fast 1 on me.
Don't overcook lotus seeds or they'd hold upwards mushy together with disintegrate. The bitter greenish piths removed from the seeds may hold upwards used to brand a "cooling" tea.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
- 120 g dried lotus seeds, without peel
- boiling water
- 8 pandan leaves, washed together with knotted
- 6 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 4 tbsp sweetness murphy flour, mixed amongst 2 tbsp water
INSTRUCTIONS
- Using the tip of a paring knife, pry lotus seeds into 2 halves. Remove piths if any. Add plenty boiling H2O to comprehend past times 3-4 cm. Soak iii minutes together with drain. Place seeds inwards a pot amongst iii cups freshly boiled water. Bring to a boil together with simmer gently, covered, for fifteen minutes.
- In a carve upwards pot, melt saccharide amongst 1 tbsp H2O over medium-high heat. Swirl till lightly coloured. Reduce oestrus to medium-low. Continue swirling till saccharide turns calorie-free brown. Turn off heat. Keep swirling till color is medium brown. With your manus to the side of the pot (to avoid the outburst of steam), add together ½ loving cup water. If saccharide solidifies, oestrus to dissolve. Taste to cheque if saccharide is burnt. If it is, discard together with brand some other batch.
- Add saccharide solution to lotus seeds. Simmer 10 minutes. Check that seeds are almost soft. If not, plow over them some other v minutes. Do non overcook. Add pandan leaves. Simmer till lotus seeds are fully soft together with powdery, 5-10 minutes. Discard pandan leaves. Adjust H2O degree together with sweetness if necessary. Increase oestrus to medium. Stir gently and, at the same time, drizzle amongst sweetness murphy flour mixture to thicken soup. Turn off oestrus when soup returns to a gentle simmer. Serve hot.