take 4 - sweet green bean soup by pressure cooker

mar 1, 2024 (fri).............made 4th attempt

introduction

- it is one of popular sweet soups for hongkongers

- you can totally adjust thickness, sweetness and taste by adjusting portion of each ingredient

main ingredients

- 3/4 cup x green bean 

- kelp

- cane sugar (replaced by brown sugar coz available)

- dried tangerine peel

- ruta/ rue (skip coz unable to buy here)

steps

1. wash green bean few times with water

2. soak kelp for 1/2 hour and green bean for ~1 hour

3. soak dried tangerine peel in hot water until soft

4. scrap the back of tangerine peel

5. slice tangerine peel and softened kelp

6. add 900ml of water and tangerine peel into pressure cooker

7. select pressure cook/ custom mode...........high pressure for 20 mins

8. turn off and manual release air

9. open lid................add in kelp

10. select pressure cook/ soup mode...........low pressure for 20 mins

11. turn off and release air.................add brown sugar (my sweetness level 6 tablespoon)..........mix well

12. select saute mode...........low pressure for 5 mins

13. done

taste
-when i was a kid, my family usually added evaporated milk in sweet soups eg sweet red bean soup, sweet green bean soup, sweet mixed bean soup...........so that's my habit now

-adding tangerine peel is like giving sweet soup a soul..............i tried cooking it without tangerine peel, taste a big different (boring and no personality)

-the aged the tangerine peel, the more splendid the taste.......mine is 20 years

-portion of each ingredient in this sweet soup recipe can be highly customized to your preference............this 1 works for me

areas of improvement

-i am happy with this attempt