Red Ruby Dessert (thai dessert)

Ingredient:

800 gm water chestnut
500 gm coconut milk
2 tbsp tapicoa flour (for dusting)
1/4 tsp red colouring

Syrup:
4 cups of water
230 gm sugar pandan leaves (cut into strips)

Method:

1. Prepare the syrup first. Bring those ingredient of syrup to boil until smell of pandan leaves fragnant off the fire let it to cool down. Wash & peel off the water chestnut skin. Soak in water and drain it. Cut them into cube then drain them dry.

2. Add in few drops of red colouring, Add in tapioca flour then mix it until dry then it become red ruby. Boil water until boiling hot, add the red ruby into it. Drop them one at a time, once they are cooked, it will float in the water. Then scoop up the cooked red ruby then put them in cold water. Drain dry the red ruby and set aside.

3. Add 500gm of coconut milk to the cold syrup. Then add in the drained red ruby. Its ready to be serve. It tastes exactly like the red ruby dessert we had in those kopitiam dessert stall.

(ref: Mdm Lee's Dessert-making)