Desserts that are "saviors" for summer days

05/06/2020

One of the favorite dishes of Vietnamese people is sweet soup. If in winter there is sweet soup with cassava, sweet soup with floating balls, sweet soup with bee, in autumn there is sweet soup with green rice, sweet soup with glutinous rice, then in summer there are countless refreshing sweet soups such as green bean sweet soup, black bean sweet soup, grapefruit sweet soup, lotus sweet soup, sweet potato sweet soup...

Green bean dessert

In the “collection” of sweet soups, of course green bean sweet soup makes me feel as if green beans and coconut milk - the two ingredients that make up this gift - were born for each other, when the fragrant, sweet taste of green beans blends with the rich, fatty taste of coconut milk, just enough flavor and sweetness. Especially on hot summer afternoons, enjoying a bowl of green bean sweet soup, adding cool shaved ice, you will feel surprisingly refreshed.

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Banana dessert

This dessert has a very simple name because the main ingredient is banana, cooked according to a traditional recipe. The light yellow, plump, ripe bananas will be peeled, sliced, then marinated with a little sugar, salt, then cooked with smooth, thick coconut milk and sweet pandan leaves. A bowl of dessert blends the fragrant flavor of ripe bananas, the fatty taste of coconut milk, the rich flavor of roasted peanuts and shredded coconut, ideal whether you eat it hot or cold. The unique combination of bananas and coconut is skillfully and delicately processed, making anyone who has tasted it once will definitely not forget it.

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Black bean dessert

Although it is a familiar snack for Vietnamese people, to be fair, no ingredient can "dethrone" black beans in the effect of cooling the body in the heat of summer. That is why, although chefs are increasingly creating many types of sweet soup, the traditional black bean sweet soup is still not forgotten and is always loved. Among a "forest" of mixed sweet soups, Thai sweet soup, sweet potato sweet soup, green bean sweet soup, black bean sweet soup is simply a simple dark brown color, dotted with soft cooked beans, and sprinkled with a little coconut milk, shredded fresh coconut, roasted peanuts... enough to make your stomach throb.

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Grapefruit tea

On hot summer days, sipping pomelo sweet soup with crispy and chewy pomelo pulp, fragrant green beans, rich coconut milk, and a little cool ice is the best culinary experience. Don't think that sweet soup made from pomelo pulp will be bitter. On the contrary, pomelo pulp is skillfully prepared, cooked in the right amount with green beans, enough to make even the most demanding diners nod in approval.

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Thung tea

The rich, fatty taste of coconut water and the fragrant, rich taste of mung beans are the characteristics of chè thung, a typical Southern dessert with ingredients such as mung beans, wood ear mushrooms, peanuts, potato starch, vanilla powder, sugar, shredded coconut... When cooking the dessert, if you want it to be more flavorful, you can add a little salt and a little sugar to give the bowl of chè thung a distinctive delicious taste.

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Lotus seed longan tea

Lotus seed longan sweet soup is a specialty of the ancient capital, loved by many people and has spread everywhere. The appeal of this sweet soup lies in its moderate sweetness, the longan flesh on the outside is crispy and sweet, the lotus seed filling on the inside is fragrant and fragrant. The bowl of sweet soup looks very simple, not as eye-catching and sophisticated as other sweet soups, but its taste really makes people's hearts flutter.

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Ginseng and tonic tea

Sam Bo Luong is a very popular dessert, and it is not expensive. For only ten thousand dong, you can enjoy a delicious cup of Sam Bo Luong at restaurants, markets... The special thing about Sam Bo Luong is that it can be eaten cold when the weather is hot and hot when the weather is cold. The ingredients to cook the dessert are medicinal herbs such as longan pulp, jujube, lotus seeds, cornel, snow fungus, wood ear... which are very good for your health.

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Water chestnut and coconut dessert

Coconut water chestnut sweet soup is no longer a strange name to Hanoi people, you can easily find this sweet soup on any street in Hanoi, especially on summer days.

Coconut water chestnut dessert is served in a coconut, but the most interesting thing is that when you eat it, you will enjoy 3 layers of flavor. First is the water chestnut dessert. This part includes many toppings such as palm sugar, jackfruit, water chestnut pearls, longan...

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The water chestnuts are cut into small pieces like pomegranate seeds, covered with a layer of transparent red or light green tapioca pearls. These tapioca pearls have a very soft outer shell, and when eaten, they are extremely crunchy, combined with the rich, fragrant coconut milk flavor that spreads the sweetness. In particular, the water chestnut dessert is only slightly sweet, so it is very cool to eat and not too rich. When you finish eating the dessert, you will see the coconut jelly with a layer of white jelly and a layer of clear jelly. In addition to eating each layer like that, we can try eating both layers at the same time, scooping up this jelly to eat with coconut milk and dessert. The third layer is the young coconut pulp, easy to scrape and delicious, so almost everyone likes it.

Thai Tea

On hot summer days like this, there is probably nothing better than enjoying a bowl of eye-catching Thai sweet soup, with the crunchy taste of jelly, the fragrant taste of durian, the richness of coconut water... The name of the sweet soup tells you its origin. This sweet soup was introduced to Vietnam about 20 years ago and is loved and chosen by many people to enjoy on hot summer days. This is probably also the most popular imported sweet soup in Vietnam.

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