Sweet potato soup dessert

Ok here’s a really easy dessert that anyone can make right in the comfort of your own home and very quickly too, I must say. I had been having a hankering for this traditional dessert or “tong sui” and when the craving did not get better, I caved.

You need:

• Sweet potatoes – try to get the white and orange varieties for a mix of colour
• Ginger – peeled and sliced into chunks
• Sugar (I used rock sugar)
• Pandan Leaves (optional)

How to:

1. Peel the sweet potatos and cut them up into chunks. Small chunks will cook faster but bigger chunks give you more bite.
2. Place the sweet potato, ginger and pandan leaves into a pot of water and bring to the boil. Let it boil for a spell before removing the ginger. The longer you leave it in, the spicier it gets. Similarly, the more ginger you use, the more spicy it will be, so its a matter of taste. Don’t worry if you don’t have pandan leaves, I didn’t either.
3. Add some sugar into the water and stir until it dissolves. Sugar is added to taste.
4. Boil until the sweet potato softens. Poke it with a fork to check.
5. When done, turn off the fire and serve hot or let it cool and stick it in the fridge and serve cold. It works both ways.

This is a traditional dessert that always reminds me of cool rainy afternoons when my grandma or mom will boil this up. The sweetness of the soup and the sweet potato is tempered by the spiciness of the ginger, which adds a very piquant taste.

I didn’t realise it was so easy to boil up! So, you can imagine I’ll be having it more often from now.

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