Loaded Grass Jelly Dessert Bowl
By making every component from scratch, you will be able to control the use of sweetener of choice and even adjust the formula for the herbal tea base in grass jelly to what the body needs!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Sweet adzuki beans
- 1 cup Dried adzuki beans Soaked for 8 hours
- 4 cup Filtered water
- 1/2 cup Honey
Grass Jelly
- 2 cups Herbal mix half a monk fruit and 1 cup five-flower tea herbs used here
- 1 L Filtered water
- 1/3 cup Sweetener of choice can skip if monk fruit is in the herbal mix
- 1 cup Dried shredded agar agar
Sweet rice balls
- 1/2 cup Glutenous rice flour
- 1/4 cup Filtered water
- 1 tbsp White granulated sweetener of choice
Coconut milk base
- 1 can Coconut milk
- Maple syrup or sweetener of choice optional
Instructions
Sweet Adzuki Beans
- Place dry adzuki beans in a bowl. Cover with a lot of water and let soak for at least 12 hours
- Drain soaked beans and place them in slow cooker
- Add filtered water and cook on low for 6 hours (see note)
- Sweeten cooked adzuki beans with sweetener of choice, and mash if desired
- Let cool in container and set aside in the fridge
Grass Jelly
- In a small to medium pot (see note), place herbal mix in cold water and bring it to a boil
- Turn heat to low and keep simmering for 10 mins or until liquid gets darker in color
- Strain liquid through a mesh sieve. Discard herbs and return half of the liquid to heat along with sweetener of choice
- Add agar agar strips to herbal liquid and keep stirring until all dissolved
- Pour herbal agar mixture into glass container while it is still warm, let cool then set aside in fridge
Sweet Rice Balls
- In a bowl, mix glutenous rice flour and granulated sweetener with half of the filtered water with a spatula
- If the mixture is too dry to form a dough, add a little bit more water at a time
- Once a dough started forming, stop adding water and roughly knead the dough to make it uniform
- Bring a pot of water to boil. Cut the dough into quarters and roll into 1 cm to 1.5 cm wide strips
- Cut strip at 1 cm to 1.5 cm intervals and roll into balls with floured hands
- Boil sweet rice balls until they float to the top. Drain and set aside
Assemble the bowl
- Scoop grass jelly in shallow flat scoops with a spatula and place in serving bowl
- Assemble dessert bowl with adzuki beans and rice balls toppings
- Fill bowl with coconut milk and serve
- Optional: add maple syrup to taste!
Notes
You can also make the Adzuki beans quicker using an Instant Pot. Simply put all adzuki beans ingredients in the pot insert, use the beans setting and follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Ideally it is best to boil the herbal mix in a ceramic or any non reactive pot. However if all you have is a stainless steel pot, that works fine too as long as the boiling time is limited.