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Chinese Dessert – Sweet Red Bean Soup

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Ingredients
2 cups of red bean
1 small piece of dried Chinese orange peel
400 g rock sugar
200 g lotus seeds (soak for 10 minutes and remove the green bitter shoot)
6 cups of water
Method
Wash red beans and place in a deep sauce pan. Add lotus seeds, orange peel and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and continue to simmer for 30 minutes until red beans are half cooked. Add rock sugar and continue to simmer for another 15 minutes until red beans are well cooked and soften. Serve hot.

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