Tau Suan (Mung Bean Sweet Soup)

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Ingredients:

• 250 gm dry split mung beans
• 4 pandan leaves (cut into 3 inches long)
• 16 pandan leaves (tied into a knot)
• 200 gm of sugar
• 6 cups of water
• 2/3 cup of sweet potato flour mixed with 1/3 cup of water
• 2 tbsp of olive oil

Preparation:

• Soak mung beans in water for 2 hours.  Drain. 
• Spread half of mung beans onto a plate.  Top with the loose pandan leaves.  Add on remaining beans.
• Steam mung beans over boiling water for 10 minutes.  Remove pandan leave from beans once done. 
• Put sugar into a pot.  Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of water.  Cook over medium-high heat. swirling to ensure even browning.
• Once sugar is lightly coloured, lower heat and continue to brown sugar.
• Turn off heat, add 6 cups of water and knotted pandan leaves.
• Turn on heat and bring to boil for 10 minutes.
• Adjust sweetness as necessary.  
• Lower heat. Drizzle in sweet potato starch and keep stirring.
• Once the desired consistency is reached, stir in mung beans, taking care not to over cook the beans.
• Serve wth youtiao. 

No Churn Ice-Cream

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Ingredients:

• 1 litter of whipping cream
• 1 can of condensed milk (chilled)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Preparation:

• Fit stand mixer with whisk attachment. 
• Whip whipping cream until soft peaks form.
• Turn off mixer and pour in condensed milk.
• Whisk till mixture is thick and stiff peaks form.
• Turn off mixer and stir in vanilla extract.
• Transfer mixture into container and freeze, or use as base to add in other ingredients as needed depending on flavours.

Flavour Options:

Blueberry Cheesecake

• Boil half cup of blueberry with around three tablespoons of water and 2 tablespoons of sugar.  Berries will start to burst and thicken into sauce.  Strain to remove seeds and skin.  Set aside to cool.
• Pulse soften cream cheese block using blender or chopper to break up lumps.
• Fold cream cheese into ice-cream mixture.
• Transfer  mixture into container in batches, swirling in blueberry sauce in-between.

 

OREO Cheesecake

• Break 15 to 20 pieces of OREO cookies into bits.
• Pulse soften cream cheese block using blender or chopper to break up lumps.
• Fold cream cheese and OREO bits into ice-cream mixture.

Coffee

• Prepare 300ml of concentrated black coffee.  Set aside to cool
• Chop nuts into small pieces (walnut, almond etc) 
• Fold coffee and chopped nuts into ice-cream mixture.