Living in tropical country we only have two seasons, the hot and the rainy. And starting this week we are officially into rainy season .

One of my favourite thing to do during this cool and cloudy day is eating warm and sweet dessert .  For my comfort food today I made “Tau Suan” aka “Split green bean  sweet soup.”

It is a popular Chinese sweet dessert and can be easily found across Asia and it taste very good to goes with “You Tiao/ You Char Kway/ Fried dough fritters), one can eat it as breakfast, dessert, noon snacks or even supper.  In Indonesia some vendor sell it with a little of coconut milk  as additional topping.

This is the first time I made this Tau Suan (get the recipe from mum) and was quite surprised that it is quite easy to cook .

Ingredients :

• 150 – 200 gr of split green bean/mug bean
• 2-3 pieces of pandan leaves, washed and tied to a knot
• 50 gr sugar (mum suggest to use rock sugar for better taste, but since I don’t have rock sugar then I use normal white sugar instead)
• 500 ml water
• Thickener : 50 gr sweet potato flour mixed with ½ cup of water
• 1 fried You Tiao (split the set into 2 and cut with scissor into 0.5 cm width)
• Coconut milk (optional)  : cook 20 ml coconut milk + 30 ml water +  pinch of salt

Steps :

1. Soak the  bean in water until expand, about 1 hour, drain, rinse with cooked water and drain again.
2. Steam the beans until they are  cooked/soft but not mushy.
3. In a pot, cook the water and pandan leaves , add rock sugar when water start to boil and stir until  sugar dissolved.
4. Reduce the heat and add the steamed beans, stir for about 2 minutes.
5. Stir  in thickener slowly until the mixture reach the thickeness according to your liking , let it simmer for a while and turn off the heat.
6. Serve with fried you tiao or drizzle coconut milk into the soup (I forgot to buy you tiao, therefore  my version only have Tau Suan with coconut milk).