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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.

30 min
Easy
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Fresh Fruit Pearl Soup

Ingredients

fresh seasonal fruits (bananas, oranges, peaches, etc., use only the flesh, cut into pieces the size of a fingernail) 150 g
dried pearls (rinse, steam in a bamboo steamer with hot water until the outer layer turns jade white, remove and rinse with cold water) 50 g
rose petals (crush) 3 cloves
osmanthus sugar 2 g
white sugar 175 g
starch (mix with water to form a thin slurry for thickening) 15 g

Instructions

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

Finish

Add the prepared fruit, stir well, pour into a soup bowl, sprinkle with crushed rose petals and osmanthus sugar, and it is ready.