Taro ‘Soup’

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

  • About

Cantonese people are very fond of making a liquid sweet dish – sweet soup by Western standards – with beans, such as the red azuki or the green mung beans, or with root vegetables, such as sweet potato or taro, which they eat warm.

Ingredients

  • 450 g (1 lb) well-peeled taro, cut into rough cubes
  • 55 g (2

Method

  1. Put the taro into a large saucepan and add 1.3–1.5 litres (2¼–2½ pints/5½–6 cups) water. B