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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Green bean and grapefruit dessert is chewy, fragrant, and delicious; the trick to making grapefruit peel not bitter is very easy to do. Go to the kitchen with TasteVN to make this dessert right away!
Ingredients for Green Bean and Grapefruit Dessert For 4 people
Grapefruit peel 200 gr Green beans 50 gr Coconut milk 200 ml Sugar 190 gr Tapioca starch 60 gr Pandan leaves 20 gr Alum 10 gr Salt 1 teaspoon
How to choose ingredients
How to choose green beans for dessert
- For this dessert, you can choose either unpeeled or peeled green beans depending on your preference. Here, we use unpeeled green beans to create an attractive color for the dessert.
- Choose beans that are of moderate and uniform size, not too large; when squeezed, they should be firm and not easily broken.
- Avoid beans that have unusual colors, signs of mold or pests, or that smell strange. Pay careful attention to the packaging and expiration date to choose good-quality green beans.
How to choose delicious grapefruit
- When buying, you should choose grapefruit with shiny, firm, yellowish skin. When you hold it, it should feel heavy, and the skin should still be fresh, not dry.
- Additionally, you should prioritize selecting fruits that make a “pop pop” sound when you flick the skin with your fingers, indicating that the skin is thick and contains plenty of pulp for making dessert.
- Avoid choosing grapefruits with small, thick bumps, as this indicates that the grapefruit is still young and does not have much pulp.
How to make Green Bean Grapefruit Dessert
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Prepare the grapefruit peel
First, mix 1 teaspoon of salt with 10 grams of alum and water. Next, use a knife to peel off the green veins of the grapefruit peel, then finely chop the white pulp.
After that, soak the grapefruit peel in the salt and alum mixture for 8 hours. After 8 hours, squeeze the grapefruit peel by hand and continue to rinse and squeeze the pulp with clean water 6 times.
Next, mix 200 grams of grapefruit peel with 10 grams of sugar and 50 grams of tapioca starch, ensuring the starch coats evenly.
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Prepare and cook green beans
You soak the green beans in clean water for 30 minutes. Next, you will put 50g of green beans into the pot and boil it with 10g of pandan leaves and a pinch of salt, when the water boils, add 170g of sugar.
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Boil grapefruit peel
You put a pot of water on the stove, bring it to a boil, then add 200g of grapefruit peel and boil for 5 – 7 minutes, when you see the grapefruit peel floating, you take it out to drain.
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Cooking grapefruit with mung beans
Next, you add 200g of boiled grapefruit peel into the pot of mung beans that is cooking. You should dilute 10g of tapioca starch with 100ml of water, then add half of the mixture into the pot of dessert.
With 200ml of coconut milk, you put it on the stove and cook with 5g of salt, 10g of sugar, 10g of pandan leaves, and add the remaining diluted tapioca starch until the coconut milk boils again.
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Final product
The grapefruit with mung beans is chewy and drizzled with a little fragrant coconut milk, making it very appealing.
The mung beans are soft and rich, the grapefruit peel is chewy and crispy without bitterness, the dessert has a moderate sweetness and is extremely delicious and attractive.
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