Burmese Tapioca Refresher (Moh Let Saung)
Ingredients
185 g/6 oz/1 cup tapioca pearls
1.5 litres/3 pints/6 cups boiling water
250 g/8 oz chopped palm sugar
ice cubes
coconut milk
salt
Directions
Wash and soak tapioca in cold water for 1 hour. Drain, drop into a
large pan of boiling water and simmer over medium heat until the
tapioca grains are clear. Cool and chill. Put palm sugar into a small
pan with 1 cup of water and dissolve over low heat. Cool and strain the
syrup. (Or buy palm sugar syrup from an Asian grocery.)
For each serving, put 3 or 4 tablespoons of chilled tapioca into a tall
glass, add the same amount of syrup and mix well. Add 2 tablespoons
crushed ice or 2 ice cubes and fill the glass with coconut milk which
has been diluted with water if very thick and rich. Add a pinch of
salt, stir and serve.
Recipe excerpted from Encyclopedia of Asian Food by Charmaine Solomon (Periplus Editions, 1998)
