Green Bean with Terigu Dessert

Ingredient

300gm green bean
200gm terigu (white wheat)
150gm sago
450gm brown sugar (or 225gm if using 7 bowls of water)
1 coconut (or 250ml of pkt coconut milk)- optional
10 pieces of pandan leaves
14 bowls of water (or 7 bowls of water, 1 bowl = 250 ml)


Method

1. Soak the sago for 5 mins with hot water. After 5 mins, drain dry.

2. Soak green beans & terigu in hot water for 1/2 hours. (this is reduce the cooking time)

3. Boil water, once it boiled, put in the drained sago to boil, until boiling bubble, off the fire, cover it, let it simmer for 1/2 hour or longer. Then check after 1/2 hour, if not yet transparent, cook it over the fire for it to boil and simmer it for 1/2 hour. If the sago turn transparent, wash it thru tap water and drain dry.

4. Tear pandan leaves into strip then tie a knot, not too tight if not the fragrant of pandan will not come out.

5. Put the tied pandan leaves into the pot of 14 or 7 bowls water to boil.

6. Once the fragrant of pandan leave is out, remove pandan leave from the pot of boiling water.

7. Put in the pre-soaked green bean & terigu to cook in high fire for 1st half hour, then reduce to low fire, let it cook slowly for another 1 hour.

8. After 1 hour, check whether it turn soft, if it is soft, add brown sugar, sago & coconut milk let it boil for a while then off fire.