Coconut Tapioca Pudding Recipe 椰汁西米露

Winter is soon approaching, Autumn is sprinkling those golden leaves across the pavements.. It's about time for some warm pud to warm myself up! This is what lead me to make this sweet pudding.

 Sorry this post is going to be as short as I hope Winter will be! My hands and fingers are hell ass freezing! I'm ready to dive into that hot pudding bath!

My recipe is adapted from [Yi Reservation]

Ingredients

• 1/2 Cup Tapioca Pearls
• 2.5 Cup Water
• 1 Cup of Taro Cubed
• 1 Can of Coconut Milk
• 1/2 Cup of Rock Sugar (Can alter according to taste)
  

 Directions

1. Bring 2.5 Cups of water to boil in a pan, add the tapioca pearls to the boiling water and cook over low heat, constantly stirring the mixture so that the pearls do not stick to the pan. 

 Cook for 10 minutes then take off the heat and cover for a further 15 minutes. 

You see them opaque hard bits, they should all disappear when the tapioca pearls are fully cooked, that's when they turn soft. I can think of metaphor here, but hey I will leave that for the creative minds out there :)

2. Cut taro into 1cm cubes. In another pot, bring 2 cups of water to boil and add the cubed taro pieces. This will need cooking for around 10 minutes until the taro pieces are all soft. Drain when done.

I cut up a bit too much taro at first as I miscalculated my cup! I actually only used half of what's in the above pic!

3. In a fresh pan pour in all of the coconut milk and add sugar, bring to a simmer until all the sugar has melted. 

 Please don't be like me and put in a huge rock of sugar. If you've seen rock sugar melt, watching grass grow and paint dry ain't nothing!

4. Ok, now for the fun part! Combine all the coconut mixture, taro and tapioca pearls together in a pot and stir! 

5. Depending on how thick/thin your soup is you can add in water to get it to the consistency you like. 

6. Get your favourite blanket and film and sip away! 

This is a very simple recipe to make! I don't think you can really go wrong. Classic pudding which can be eaten hot or cold, though right now in this weather I do prefer it hot! 

I'm meeting my friends this weekend and I have been put in charge of making the dessert, so I will be whipping up this dish, I wonder how my non Chinese friends will like this pudding! We shall see soon! dun dun dunnnn.... TO BE CONTINUED...