Recipe: how to cook Chinese food, Black Sesame Soup_dessert

Black Sesame Soup is a popular dessert. It has two main different cooking method, the traditional one and the powder one. The traditional method can serve fresh sesame soup and it has a smoother taste than the powder method, meanwhile, the powder one is very easy to prepare and keep easily, which you could have it anytime you want.

INGREDIENTS:

Traditional Method

• 250g black sesame
• 1300ml water
• 150g glutinous rice
• q.s. rock sugar
• 10 Chinese date (optional)

Powder method

• 250g black sesame
• 125g glutinous rice flour
• 125g sugar

INSTRUCTIONS:

Traditional Method

Step 1: prepare ingredients.

Step 2: wash the glutinous rice and soak in cold water for 1.5 hours.

Step 3: stir-fry the sesame.

Step 4: wash and pit Chinese date, cut into small pieces.

Step 5: grind sesame, glutinous rice, date and 900ml water with a processor in high speed.

Step 6: sieve the paste.

Step 7: keep the filtered sesame water.

Step 8: blend 400ml water and rest mixture in the processor again.

Step 9: repeat step 8 until the mixture is dried.

Step 10: heat the sesame water and rock sugar over medium heat and keep stirring until the soup becomes thick.

Step 11: serve out.

Step 12: decorate as you like. DONE❕

Powder Method

Step 1: stir-fry the sesame.

Step 2: ground in a processor.

Step 3: stir-fry the glutinous rice flour over low heat to light yellow colour.

Step 4: put the sesame powder, glutinous rice powder and sugar together as the 2:1:1 ratio.

Step 5: mix evenly.

Step 6: brew the powder with hot water. keep the powder in a dry container. DONE❕

Enjoy~

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