Pear & Snowfall Fungus Sweetness Soup
Kamis, 09 November 2017
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Cantonese sweet soups (糖水) are unremarkably served equally a dessert, but they're non similar desserts inwards whatever other culture.
Everyone regards desserts equally an evil temptation that they should avoid equally much equally possible, except the Cantonese. To them, desserts aren't indulgent or sinful but a necessary wellness tonic for the body.
That's right, desserts are a wellness food! Isn't that an awesome idea?!
Forget the nasty materials similar wheatgrass together with flax seeds. Heath nutrient Cantonese mode is what you lot want!
There're many restaurants inwards Hong Kong that serve alone sweetness soups. A lot of these specialty eateries are packed alongside people, fifty-fifty belatedly at night.
Do the customers experience guilty when they're tucking into something sweetness together with yummy, sometimes but earlier going to bed?
Not at all!
Why would anyone experience bad near eating wellness food?
If they're feeling listless together with tired, a bowl of crimson edible bean soup would laissez passer on 'em an unloosen energy boost.
Having an acne breakout?
Red wouldn't endure the correct colour. Instead, become for light-green edible bean soup which is also adept for eczema together with lowering cholesterol.
Looking for smooth, milky white complexion? That calls for almond milk or steamed custard.
Been coughing lately?
Sea-coconuts together with pears to the rescue.
Does dark pasty rice alongside kokosnoot milk together with mangoes audio good?
I listen it improves digestion.
Worried near pilus turning grey?
Forget coconuts. Black sesame soup would create the trick . . .
I haven't come upwards across a sweetness soup that cures cancer but there's something for but near everything else!
I had ii bowls of pear together with snowfall fungus sweetness Soup (银耳雪梨糖水) later dinner. My throat, which had been quite dry out for a few days, feels OK now. Worked similar a charm, together with it was a low-cal together with refreshing dessert to boot.
Who says you lot should avoid desserts? When it's a Cantonese sweetness soup, you lot should accept a 2nd helping!
PEAR AND SNOW FUNGUS SWEET SOUP (银耳雪梨糖水)
1 slice dried snowfall fungus (雪耳/银耳), near ½ palm size or 10 g
2 big or iii medium Chinese or Japanese pears (about 550 g)
1½ tbsp Chinese bitter almonds (北杏), rinsed
1½ tbsp Chinese sweetness almonds (南杏), rinsed
10 Chinese dried crimson dates (红枣), rinsed together with pits removed
stone carbohydrate to taste, seventy g or together with then (or low-cal brownish carbohydrate if non available)
1. Soak snowfall fungus inwards H2O till soft, near xx minutes. Trim dirty, tough ends together with discard. Rinse thoroughly together with tear into seize alongside teeth size pieces.
2. Rinse, peel, center together with quarter pears. Cut each quarter into 3-4 chunky pieces.
3. Put all ingredients except stone carbohydrate inwards a pot alongside half-dozen cups water. Bring to a boil. Simmer gently, covered. Check later 45 minutes. There should endure plenty H2O for ingredients to but float freely. Top upwards if necessary. Or growth estrus slightly if there's likewise much. Simmer some other xv minutes if you lot similar snowfall fungus crunchy, or thirty minutes if you lot prefer it soft.
4. Season to gustation alongside stone sugar. If you lot like, discard pears which would endure quite tasteless later the long simmer. Serve hot, chilled or at room temperature, equally dessert, afternoon tea or supper. It's upwards to you. May endure stored inwards the refrigerator for 2 days.
(Recipe for iv persons)
1 slice dried snowfall fungus (雪耳/银耳), near ½ palm size or 10 g
2 big or iii medium Chinese or Japanese pears (about 550 g)
1½ tbsp Chinese bitter almonds (北杏), rinsed
1½ tbsp Chinese sweetness almonds (南杏), rinsed
10 Chinese dried crimson dates (红枣), rinsed together with pits removed
stone carbohydrate to taste, seventy g or together with then (or low-cal brownish carbohydrate if non available)
1. Soak snowfall fungus inwards H2O till soft, near xx minutes. Trim dirty, tough ends together with discard. Rinse thoroughly together with tear into seize alongside teeth size pieces.
2. Rinse, peel, center together with quarter pears. Cut each quarter into 3-4 chunky pieces.
3. Put all ingredients except stone carbohydrate inwards a pot alongside half-dozen cups water. Bring to a boil. Simmer gently, covered. Check later 45 minutes. There should endure plenty H2O for ingredients to but float freely. Top upwards if necessary. Or growth estrus slightly if there's likewise much. Simmer some other xv minutes if you lot similar snowfall fungus crunchy, or thirty minutes if you lot prefer it soft.
4. Season to gustation alongside stone sugar. If you lot like, discard pears which would endure quite tasteless later the long simmer. Serve hot, chilled or at room temperature, equally dessert, afternoon tea or supper. It's upwards to you. May endure stored inwards the refrigerator for 2 days.