Sunday, September 7, 2008

Black Eye Bean Soup (mei tau tong sui)

For my first recipe here with the pressure cooker,
Recipe for 5 persons is as follows:-

Black Eye Bean Soup / mei tau tong sui


300 gm black eye beans, washed
8 tabsp sugar
1 thumb-size old ginger, smashed
4 screwpine leaves, knotted
1 thumb size dried orange peel
50 gm sago ,soaked for 30 min
2 litre boiling water
1 egg, beaten

  1. Put black eye beans, sugar, ginger, screwpine leaves, orange peel and water into pressure cooker.
  2. Boil over big fire till you can see the second red indicator ring.
  3. Switch to very low heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
  4. Remove from fire.
  5. Open the cover when indicator has receded, turn up the fire and stir in the sago.
  6. Bring to boil and stir in the beaten egg.

I normally serve the mei tau tong sui hot.

1 comment:

Stephen said...

Wahhh...my favourite tong sui.