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My Wok Life Cooking Blog - Dried Bean Curd, Barley with Gingko Nuts Dessert Soup (腐竹薏米白果糖水) -

Dried Bean Curd, Barley with Gingko Nuts Dessert Soup (腐竹薏米白果糖水)

Posted on July 17, 2008December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Fu Zhok dessert

“Tons of good reasons for having this great dessert soup all the time!”

I cooked this dessert umpteen times and still cook it always, for my family and colleagues! Why so often? Because this dessert benefits our health and it’s tasty. Most Cantonese believed that having dessert soup daily helps to rejuvenate skin and promote better complexion. This dried bean curd, barley with gingko nuts sweet soup offers even greater health benefits. Not only the dried bean curd helps to lower cholesterol level and for better skin, barley does help to reduce risk of getting cancer, also lower cholesterol and alleviate water retention in body. Gingko nut helps to improve female genital issues such as minor vaginal discharge problem.

Made it a little different, I added sago. Not getting much from it, except for carbohydrate and little protein and minerals. I like its chewy texture and crystal-like appearance in my soup (smiling)!

There were a few times I added unsweetened soy milk in this sweet soup (lessen the amount of water by half and replaced with soy milk). It was nice, the thick and ‘milky taste” added pleasure to the palate!

This sweet soup counts 220 kcal for a large portion.

My Wok Life Cooking Blog - Dried Bean Curd, Barley with Gingko Nuts Dessert Soup (腐竹薏米白果糖水) -Ingredients
½ cup of pearl barley (about 150 gram)
1 packet of vacuum-packed (shelled) gingko nuts (about 35 – 40 softened nuts)
1 large sheets of dried bean curd skin (premium grade specially for dessert)
½ cup of small white sago (about 50 gram)
2 large eggs
1 large rock sugar (add more to your preference)
1 large pot of water, 70% filled (about 2000ml)

Method
1) Briefly wash pearl barley. Put barley into a pot of water and bring to a boil over high heat.

2) Add gingko nuts, sago and rock sugar. Bring down heat to low fire, simmer for 30 min, place and tilt the lid on the pot.

3) Break up dried bean curd into smaller pieces. Rinsed before adding to the soup. Need not to steep dried bean curd. Simmer for another 10 min, or until dried bean curd completely soften.

4) Break eggs in a bowl, briefly beat with serving fork (beat no more than 4 strokes). Slowly swirl eggs into the soup (in few stages). Stir constantly till egg-drop forms strips. Heat off. Serve warm.

Usually, only egg white will be used in this dessert. However, I do not wish to waste it. So, I used whole egg since I did not see any difference in taste with or without yolk. However, if for health concern, eliminate or include only 1 yolk instead.

Tips: Do not beat the egg completely as the presence of both white and yellow (yolk) egg-drop in your soup made it more appealing.
*If you wish to try the soy milk version, use half the recommended amount of water to boil ingredients, and then add soy milk only after adding in dried bean curd.
*Vacuum-packed gingko nuts are available in most supermarket. If unable to get, try canned gingko nuts. Both are ready shelled types.

Tags: Egg
Category: DessertRecipeSweet Savoury

4 thoughts on “Dried Bean Curd, Barley with Gingko Nuts Dessert Soup (腐竹薏米白果糖水)”

  1. Anonymous says:
    September 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Hi,
    I am working in Mumbai, India. Wife and kids are still living in Singapore, so sometimes have to do some simple cooking on my own with the Singapore foodstuff which I bring over from Singapore. Discovered I had dried bean curd skin so was trying to find out how to make that dessert soup. Thanks for the recipe on your Wok site. Will try it out. Your 1-dish recipes will also come in handy for me. Your Wok site is good. Instructions are simple to understand, down to earth, and yet interesting. My compliments to your efforts. All the best.

    Foo CW.

    Reply
  2. PatriCa BB says:
    September 15, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    Hi CW,

    Thanks for visiting and trying my recipes! I am sincerely appreaciate it…

    I like to share my experiences to people, and receive feedback from people…

    I hope you will visit my site more.. Do let me know if you have more query!

    Blessing to you…

    Reply
  3. Lilacz says:
    May 15, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Hi

    I have been trying out some of your recipes and i must say its wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

    I really like this dessert with milky soup but never know what was added in it till i read your blog. May i just double check is the milk just plain soy milk or is it soya bean milk?

    Reply
  4. PatriCa BB says:
    May 16, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Hi Lilacz,

    I thought soy milk and soy bean milk the same… Yes, plain soy (bean) milk without sugar added.

    Reply

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