Tau Suan

Tau Suan is a popular Chinese dessert made with mung beans and served with fried dough fritters.

Ingredients - Serves 4

Rinse the mung beans and soak them in water for 2 hours.
Drain the mung beans and transfer them to a pot. Add 4 cups of water and pandan leaves.
Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until the mung beans are soft.
In a separate bowl, dissolve the potato starch in 1/4 cup of water.
Add the dissolved potato starch mixture to the pot and stir well to thicken the tau suan.
Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
Remove the pandan leaves from the pot.
Serve the tau suan hot, topped with diced water chestnuts and accompanied by fried dough fritters.