Four-Fruit Sweet Soup

Name: Four-Fruit Sweet Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 50 g red dates (with pits); 10 g persimmon (cut into pieces, pits removed); 100 g dried longan (shelled, pits intact); 300 g white sugar; 50 g winter melon candy

A traditional sweet soup from Quanzhou, made by simmering red dates, persimmon, dried longan, and winter melon candy with white sugar. Served to convey blessings of good fortune.

45 min

Easy

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Ingredients

red dates (with pits) 50 g

persimmon (cut into pieces, pits removed) 10 g

dried longan (shelled, pits intact) 100 g

white sugar 300 g

winter melon candy 50 g

Instructions

Prepare the ingredients

Shell the dried longan but keep the pits to preserve their rounded shape; likewise leave the pits in the red dates; cut the persimmon into pieces and remove the pits.