Tau Suan

Name: Tau Suan
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz) mung beans; 10 pandan leaves; 80 g (2⅘ oz) sweet potato starch; 2 litres (64 fl oz / 8 cups) water; 150 g (5⅓ oz) sugar or to taste; 2 you tiao (fried Chinese crullers), toasted and sliced

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hawker Favourites

By The MeatMen

Published 2017

About

Tau suan is a dessert soup made with split mung beans. These lentils are said to help reduce body heatiness, and we believe that the starchy and gooey concoction will help warm the stomach as well!

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb 1½ oz) mung beans
10

Asia
Singapore
Dessert
Soup
Vegan
South East Asia
Street Food
Gluten-free

Method

Rinse and soak mung beans in water for 2 hours.
Cut 5 pandan leaves into short strips and place some on a steaming tray. Drain mung beans and transfer to steaming tray. Place remaining cut pandan leaves on mung beans and steam for 10 minutes.
Mix sweet potato starch with water. Set aside.
Bring 2 litres (64 fl oz / 8 cups) water to a boil in