Chinese Sweet Potato Ginger Dessert Soup 番薯姜糖水
There's nothing that warms you up better than a touch of the right kind of traditional Cantonese sweet soup. And how good this Chinese Sweet Potato Ginger Dessert Soup 番薯姜糖水 is, soft comforting pieces of luscious yams floating in a sweet and fiery soup that warms you right through to the tips of your toes!
- Prep time
- 3 min
- Cook time
- 16 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 4 inches old ginger, 80g
- 1.5 liters water, 6 1/2 cups
- 1 piece slab sugar 片糖, 60g
- 15 dried red dates
- 1/2 piece slab sugar, to adjust to taste
Instructions
- 1
Wash sweet potato and ginger. Peel off potato and ginger skins.
- 2
Cut sweet potato into cubes, whatever size you like. Slice ginger into slices as long as your ginger knob allows. Long slices are easier to remove later.
- 3
Add water and sweet potato to large pot and bring to a boil.
- 4
When boiling, add in ginger, red dates and 1 slab of sugar. Boil at medium heat for 15 mins or until the yam is soft all the way through.
- 5
Taste and add extra slab sugar if needed to taste. Simmer and stir for a minute more to dissolve the slab sugar completely.
- 6
Remove all the ginger slices before serving hot.