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Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 September 1, 2017 · Updated: 💻September 1, 2017 · 🗨 Leave a Comment

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Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious.

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com

Sweet soups (tong sui) are very popular in Malaysian Chinese cuisine. They are usually quite light as compared to other kinds of desserts and require only a few ingredients. Perhaps most important is that they are very quick and easy to prepare. This Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup uses only a handful of ingredients and takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. It is hard to beat that especially when you are in a pinch.

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com This dessert usually comes in a clear ginger flavored syrup like this one. Since I have a good stock of gula melaka (palm sugar) at the moment, I decided to treat myself and use a little of it in this dessert.

Gula Melaka is a little less sweet than regular sugar and so a little more is needed to sweeten the soup. If you do not have gula melaka, please use brown sugar.

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com

You can use any kind of sweet potatoes you have on hand. I used one I purchased at my regular grocery store which is usually orange in color and a purple one I purchased at the Asian market. It will probably look much prettier if I had a yellow flesh sweet potato. If you are in Malaysia or Singapore, you should not have a problem getting yellow sweet potatoes. They are the norm over there.

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com
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Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Dessert
Cuisine : Chinese
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 200kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 2½ cups water (600ml)
  • 2 pandan leaves (shredded and knotted)
  • 1 inch ginger (peeled and crushed) (30g)
  • ½ cup gula melaka (shaved) (75g)
  • 2 small sweet potatoes (peeled and cut into ¾ inch cubes) (1 lb/450g)

Instructions
 

  • Combine water, pandan leaves, ginger, shaved gula Melaka, and sweet potatoes in a medium saucepan. Bring syrup to a boil. Stir to dissolve sugar.
  • Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Turn off stove.
  • Remove and serve warm or chilled.

Nutrition

Calories: 200kcal
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This dessert turned out to be quite fragrant and delicious with the use of gula melaka and pandan leaves. Do give it a try.

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com

Sweet Potatoes in Gula Melaka Syrup is a twist on a sweet soup dessert using palm sugar instead of regular sugar syrup. Simple, fragrant, and delicious. | MalaysianChineseKitchen.com

Categories: 🗂 Chinese, Sweet Soups Tags: 📋 sweet potatoes

About Linda

Linda is a food writer and photographer who hails from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She now lives in Wyoming, USA. Her other blogs are Roti n Rice and Tea Tattler.

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