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Photo: 楊枝甘露 Yeung Ji Gum Lo, 利苑酒家午市點心 Lei Garden Lunchtime Dim Sum SML.20120925.G12.00428 (8099363414) by See-ming Lee from Hong Kong, CC BY 2.0, cropped and resized.
Sweet soup 糖水
Mango pomelo sago
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Gentle and balanced. Traditionally fine for most people, any time of year. Mango and coconut milk are neutral; pomelo is cool.
Good for Hong Kong’s summer star, dreamed up at Lei Garden in the 1980s. Pomelo is traditionally said to help digestion.
- 20 minprep
- 20 mincook
- 4servings
- One potSummer
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Ingredients
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- 1½ quarts1.5 LWater
No pantry items here. Buy the fresh mango and pomelo locally or on Weee!.
Method
- Boil the water, add the sago and cook 10 minutes, stirring. Cover off the heat for 10 minutes until clear, then rinse cold and drain.
- Dice a quarter of the mango for the top. Blend the rest with the coconut milk, milk and sugar until smooth.
- Stir in the sago and most of the pomelo. Chill for 30 minutes.
- Spoon into bowls and top with diced mango and the last of the pomelo.
Who should go easy
Pomelo, like grapefruit, can interfere with some medicines; check yours. Some people react to mango skin.
Traditional Chinese food therapy, not medical advice. Ask your doctor if you are pregnant, on medication or unwell.
Ingredient natures from Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, "中醫之食物屬性飲食指導" (food nature table), Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, "中醫食療——食物種類分析" (Dr Lam To-yee, registered Chinese medicine practitioner, 2022). How we judge a soup’s nature.
Recipe checked against The World of Chinese: Behind the name of an immortal Hong Kong dessert, Young Post (SCMP): How to make a mango pomelo sago.
