Red Bean With Sago Porridge
Ingredients:
250g red beans
100g sago, soaked
200g rock sugar
2 pieces dried tangerine peel
2 pandan leaves, knotted
2.5 litres water
Method:
1. Wash red beans in several changes of water and remove any grit that rises to the surface. Rinse and drain. Rinse tangerine peel briefly.
2. Bring 2.5 litres of water to a boil. Add the red beans, pandan leaves and tangerine peel and boil over high heat for 15 minutes. Lower heat and simmer for 1 hour till beans are softened. Remove half of beans and blend till fine. Pour blended bean paste back into the pot.
3. Add rock sugar and continue to simmer over low heat for another 1/2 hour. Add sago and boil until the sago turns translucent.
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Hi Aunty Rose! How are you? I’m going back soon - will arrive on Sunday morning. This recipe looks good!
Comment by Joel T | August 26, 2007
hi Joel,
Glad you are coming back soon. Uncle says we will have watermelons to eat again. I cooked the red beans with sago instead of lotus seeds and both of us finished the whole pot. I’ll cook it for you when you return.
Blessings!
Aunty Rose
Comment by rose | August 27, 2007
Hello Rose,
hope u r doin gr8!
M a malaysian but now staying in India, i miss all chinesse food i used to eat back in Malaysia so i browse internet to find any easy chinese food i can cook (since there are very limited ingredients i could find here)and i end up at up at your site. Such a wonderful site that i gonna refer whenever i feel like eating chinese food. Thank you very much Rose. By d way can u give me a receipe on how to prepare the filling paste for red bean pau?!
Thanks n regards,
Gowri
Comment by Gowri | April 19, 2008