Green Bean With Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients:
1 rice bowl green beans
1/2 rice bowl glutinous rice
3 slabs raw sugar ‘peen tong’
12 bowls water (3.5 litres)
1 stalk common rue
Method:
1. Wash green beans in several changes of water. Pick out the grit and discard spoilt beans. Boil beans for 5 minutes, wash and drain.
2. Wash and soak glutinous rice for 1/2 hour.
3. Boil green beans with 1.5 litres of water for 30 minutes or until beans expand.
4. Add in the glutinous rice, common rue or pandan leaves and add another 2 litres of boiling water. Boil for another 30 minutes or until beans and glutinous rice are cooked.
5. Add in the ‘peen tong’ or rock sugar and stir occasionally till the sugar dissolves.
Note: Can substitute Common Rue (chow chau) with few pandan leaves.
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Hello, I stumbled upon your blog while searching for Malaysian recipes. What a pleasant surprise to find so many of the old favourites in one place!
Thank you very much for sharing your recipes. ^^ I will definitely try them out sometime.
Comment by | February 19, 2007
Glad you found your old favourites. Hope you will enjoy trying them out. Thanks and regards. Rose
Comment by | February 19, 2007
Hi Rose, you seem like a very experienced cook so I would like some advice on cooking green bean soup. How do you cook it such that the beans will be soft and intact but not mushy? Does the secret lie in the soaking method or the cooking method? Your help is much appreciated and your site is really interesting, thanks!
Comment by Rachel | July 4, 2009
Dear Rose
What is the Chinese word for commonruw ( chow chan)
Thank you
Anthony Yeo
Comment by anthony yeo | July 8, 2009
Hi Rose, An interesting recipe which I would like to try except I dont know what common rue is? Is there a malay name or an enlarged picture of it please?
Tx a lot for sharing, and god bless from Malaysia
Comment by Mrs Singh | July 12, 2009
Hi Rose, I’ll try this one for my 2 darling girls tomorrow. This is good. Thank you.
Comment by daniel oon | October 3, 2009