Fresh Fruit Pearl Soup
A traditional sweet soup dessert from Zhejiang, featuring smooth, chewy bright pearls paired with fresh fruit. It has vibrant color and shape, and is sweet and delicious.
Ingredients
Instructions
Steam the pearls
Rinse the dried pearls and place them in a large bowl, add hot water, steam in a bamboo steamer until the outer layer turns jade white and the core is only left with small white spots, then remove and rinse with cold water, set aside.
Prepare the fruit
Take the flesh of the fresh seasonal fruits, cut into pieces the size of a fingernail, place in a bowl and set aside.
Cook the soup
Add water to a wok and bring to a boil, add the prepared pearls, skim off foam when it boils up, add white sugar, skim off sugar foam again, then add the starch slurry to the wok to thicken the soup lightly.
Finish
Add the prepared fruit, stir well, pour into a soup bowl, sprinkle with crushed rose petals and osmanthus sugar, and it is ready.