Monday, March 24, 2008

White Fungus Dessert


Feel heaty lately? Here is a simple recipe to cool you down. All you need is a steamer or a slow cooker for this recipe.
Ingredients:
1 or 2 dried white fungus, soaked with hot water until soft, discard the yellowish part and shred the fungus to bite size
1 handful of dried longan (if you’re feel heaty, you can omit this)
1 handful of dried red dates
1 pack of ginkgo nuts
1 handful of winter melon sugar
Honey rock sugar to taste

How to make:
Steam all the ingredients together with water for approx. 30 minutes. Do make a quick check every 15 minutes to see if the fungus is soft already.
Can be serve hot or cold (I prefer cold because it tastes so refreshing).

This recipe calls for your creativity too. You can omit or add on other ingredients to your taste. But make sure to check with the people in Chinese medicine shop whether the ingredient that you want to mix in is hot or cold in nature because certain ingredients are not to be mixed together.
PS: to make it grand, you can add bird nest J. It’s good for your skin complexion J.

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