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Preparation
5 minutes
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Processing
45 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Lotus seed and cassava starch dessert is sweet and fragrant, with the buttery taste from the soft-cooked lotus seeds, providing users with a delicious dessert that is extremely good for health. With simple ingredients and quick preparation, you are guaranteed to succeed. Let’s cook with TasteVN!
Ingredients for Lotus Seed and Cassava Starch Dessert Serves 6 people
Lotus seeds 250 gr Cassava starch 50 gr Sugar 100 gr
How to choose fresh and delicious lotus seeds
- You should choose mature lotus seeds that are round in shape and have an ivory or dark yellow color. Mature lotus seeds will taste better than young lotus seeds when cooked.
- Avoid choosing lotus seeds that are bruised, with wrinkled green skins. Additionally, do not choose lotus seeds that are wet as they can easily become bruised and wilted.
What is cassava flour? What are the benefits of cassava flour?
- Cassava flour is made from the tuber of the cassava plant, has a white color, and is usually in the form of a solid powder.
- Cassava flour has many health benefits such as treating alcohol addiction and detoxifying alcohol, aiding digestion, effectively quenching thirst, improving breast size, treating freckles,… and many other uses.
- Cassava flour can be easily purchased at markets, grocery stores, supermarkets, or bought online on e-commerce websites.
- When buying, you need to carefully check the expiration date, examine the packaging, which must be intact and not torn. The flour should still be dry and not moldy or show signs of weevil infestation.
How to make lotus seed cassava flour dessert
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Prepare and cook the lotus seeds until soft
First, wash the lotus seeds with water to clean off any dirt, then remove the inner part of the seed if it is still present.
Next, place a pot on the stove, add the lotus seeds, and a little water so that it covers the seeds by about 2 large finger lengths. Cook over medium heat for about 25 – 30 minutes until the lotus seeds are soft.
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Cooking lotus seeds with tapioca flour
Next, add 100g of sugar to the pot of lotus seeds and stir until dissolved.
Dilute 50g of tapioca flour with a little water, then gradually add it to the pot of sweet soup, stirring until the desired thickness is reached. Continue cooking for another 5 minutes until the sweet soup boils again, then turn off the heat.
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Final product
The sweet soup made from lotus seeds and tapioca flour is smooth with a delicate sweetness and a light tapioca flavor, accompanied by soft and buttery lotus seeds, creating an extremely delicious and nutritious dish for the whole family.
This sweet soup is very effective for cooling the body, so if you are suffering from mouth sores or feeling hot inside, be sure to cook yourself a pot of lotus seed sweet soup with tapioca flour using this recipe!
It will be really simple and quick to cook a delicious and nutritious sweet soup for the whole family with how to cook sweet soup with cassava starch that TasteVN has just introduced to you! Try it out today, and wish you success!
