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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Pumpkin is rich in nutrients that are good for health. Besides preparing savory dishes, this ingredient is also used to cook sweet soups and other desserts that are extremely appealing and delicious. Join the kitchen with sister Nhat and make this sweet soup of pumpkin with coconut milk right away!
Ingredients for Coconut Milk Pumpkin Sweet Soup Serves 4 – 6 people
Pumpkin 1/2 fruit (medium-sized pumpkin) Canned coconut milk 165 ml (1 small can) Glutinous rice flour 5 tablespoons Tapioca flour 1 tablespoon Salt/ sugar A little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh pumpkin
- A good pumpkin usually has a yellow-orange color with dark green patches, yellow flesh, and a sweet, fragrant taste with a relatively sticky texture. When holding the pumpkin, if the skin feels smooth and it feels heavy, it’s a good pumpkin, dense and has few seeds.
- Choose pumpkins with a stem length of 2 – 5 cm. Pumpkins without stems tend to rot faster.
- Do not buy if pressing the skin feels soft because this indicates an immature pumpkin, and check carefully to avoid buying damaged or rotten fruits.
Where to buy coconut milk?
- Canned coconut milk can be purchased at food stores, supermarkets, markets,… or online at reputable e-commerce sites like TasteVN.
- In addition, you can make coconut milk at home following TasteVN’s instructions.
Tools needed
Steamer set, stove, bowl, pot, spoon,…
How to make Pumpkin dessert with coconut milk
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Prepare and steam the pumpkin
Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, and wash it 2 – 3 times with water for cleanliness, then cut the pumpkin into small pieces and let it drain.
Next, place the pumpkin in the steamer for about 20 minutes from when the water boils, until the pumpkin is soft, then transfer it to a bowl and mash with a fork.
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Shape and boil pumpkin chè balls
Add 5 tablespoons of glutinous rice flour into the bowl of mashed pumpkin, mix the pumpkin and glutinous rice flour together and roll into bite-sized balls.
Boil a pot of water, add the glutinous rice balls and boil for about 5 – 7 minutes on medium heat until the balls become translucent. Remove the balls and immediately place them in a bowl of cold water to soak for about 30 seconds before taking them out.
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Cook the pumpkin chè
Boil 700ml of water, add 1/2 cup of sugar (rice bowl), boil until the water returns to a boil, then add the boiled pumpkin balls, lower the heat and cook for about 7 more minutes, adjust the amount of sugar to taste and turn off the heat.
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Cook coconut milk
Add coconut milk into a pot along with 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/3 teaspoon of salt, and stir well.
Put the pot on the stove, stirring continuously until the mixture is about to boil, then dissolve 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch (can replace tapioca starch with glutinous rice flour, cornstarch,…) with 50ml of water and then add it to the coconut milk pot, stirring continuously until the water boils again, then turn off the heat.
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Final product
Scoop the pumpkin dessert into a bowl, add a little coconut milk, and it is ready to enjoy.
The coconut milk pumpkin dessert has soft, chewy pieces, fragrant with the smell of glutinous rice flour, and a light natural sweetness from the pumpkin, blended in sweet syrup, and the rich coconut milk is very delicious.
It’s really easy to have a bowl of pumpkin sweet soup with coconut milk that is fragrant and appealing for the whole family. Wishing you success in making this sweet dish!
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