HONEY MELON AND SAGO DESSERT

This is a very common dessert served at most Chinese restaurants. It can be said as one of the easiest desserts to prepare. It can be served with or without shaved ice or chilled.

It is thick with blended honey dew mixed with sago and coconut milk. The sweetness is just nice.  Refreshingly good after meals.

Recipe adapted from Agnes Chang’s Book-Tasty Temptations

Ingredients

1 kg honey dew melon – seeded and skin removed

200 gm sago – soaked

300 ml thick coconut milk

½ tsp salt

Syrup Ingredients

150 gm sugar

2 pandan leaves –knotted

125 ml water

1 bowl of ice cubes – optional

1. Boiled syrup ingredients until sugar dissolves. Set aside.
2. Shape some honey dew melon into small balls with a scoop as garnishing. Set aside.
3. Cut the remaining into small pieces and liquidize them in a blender. Chill in the fridge.
4. Bring a pot of water to boil. Put sago into boiling water and cook till transparent. Pour into a sieve, rinse under running tap water to remove the starch and drain.
5. Mix sago, honey dew balls, syrup, coconut milk and salt with liquidize honey dew in a mixing bowl and add ice cubes [if using] otherwise, chill in the fridge until later.
6. Dish into small bowls to serve as dessert.
   

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