Sweet Potato And Sago Dessert

Dessert With Coconut Milk Brown Sugar Syrup

                                                                                                                                                  Dessert Before Adding Brown Sugar Syrup

Easy to prepare dessert and not much ingredients.  We had this for afternoon snack.

Ingredients
[serves 6]

500 gm orange color sweet potatoes - skinned and cut wedges, soak in water before cooking

100 gm sago pearls [small] wash under tap water 1 time]

1.7 litres water

125 gm sugar

2-3 screwpine leaves - wash and tie knot.

1. Boil water with sweet potatoes and screw pine leaves till soft.
2. When sweet potatoes are cooked and soft .Off heat.
3. Remove scum and turn on heat to boil again, add in the sago which has been wash and drained.  Continue to boil and stir till sago pearls turn clear.  Off heat, serve with brown sugar coconut milk syrup.

How to prepare syrup?

Boil 3 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp water, a pinch of salt and 2 screwpine leaves [tie knot].  Boil till bubbling for 1-2 minutes.  Add in 50 ml coconut milk.  Let it boil again, off fire. Syrup is ready to be served with sago dessert.