Tau Suan With You Tiao(豆爽油条)
By: Cuisine Paradis...
Published: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 1:28pm

Ingredients




100 grams Spilt Green Bean (hulled mung bean, 去壳绿豆)
2 knots of Pandan Leaves
1 litr of Water
1 tablespoon Caster Sugar
Cane Sugar To Taste
1 pair of Fried Fritter (You Tiao, 油条)
For Thickening:
3/4 tablespoon Potato/Water Chestnut Flour
100 milliliters Drinking Water

Preparation

1 Soak mung beans for 10 minutes in lukewarm water till the bean slightly expand. Drain well and set aside. 2 While soaking the mung bean, in another pot bring about 1 litres of water to boil, add in pandan leaves together and simmer for about 5 - 7 minutes till the water change colour. (refer to the photo above) 3 In a non-stick pan or pot, add in drained mung bean together with about 1 tablespoon of caster sugar and fry over medium low heat till the beans are fragrance and caramelised. (according to Mr Seetoh this process will held to firm up the beans while cooking) Turn off the heat and set aside. 4 Remove the pandan leaves from the water, add in the cooked beans and simmer on medium low for about 5 minutes then season it with cane sugar/caster sugar to taste. 5 Lastly lower the heat and quickly stir in the potato/water chestnut flour mixture to thickened it. 6 Turn off the heat and ladle tau suan into serving bowls, top with fried fritter/you tiao and serve.

About


Tau suan(豆爽) is also one of the popular item on the list which is a sweet Chinese dessert made of split mung beans which are steamed till soften before being stirred into a pandan infused water then thickened with either potato or water chestnut flour.