Pomelo Mango Sago ~
This is a very famous Hong Kong dessert that you usually wont miss every time you visit the place. Luckily the famous dessert stall 满记甜品 came in to Singapore few years ago to relieve our cravings.
But we can actually make this at home especially for us who live in the tropical countries which has abundant of good quality mangoes around. As you know the success of this dessert depend on the most important ingredient, MANGOOOOO.
So let me have the honour to show you how to do it... of cos you can improvise to suit your taste from here...
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
400ml mango juice (you can use those marigold mango juices that you can get from supermarket)
200ml coconut milk
80-100g sago pearl (depending on how much you love this)
4-5 cups of water to cook the sago
1 to 2 cup of Pomelo arils
3 large ripe mango (sliced and cubed)
sugar syrup (2tbsp sugar + hot water)
Directions:
1. Cook the sago:
- Boil the water.
- Add in sago pearl and bring to boil and stir well to prevent them from sticking together.
- Once it boils, turn off the heat and cover with lid for 20min.
- Turn on the heat and bring to boil again and stir well to prevent them from sticking together.
- Once it boils, turn off the heat and cover with lid for 10 min.
- Drain the sago and rinse to remove the excessive starch. Soak in cold water and drain when completely cool. Set aside and keep in refrigerator.
2. Cut the mango while cooking the sago.
Separate 2 mango for blending and 1 mango for garnishing.
If you want to know how to cubed the sago, this youtuber show you how...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&gl=SG&v=lvLdPjpELyU
3. Bring coconut milk to boil and set aside to cool.
4. Blend the 2 mango and cool coconut milk till smooth. Add some sugar syrup if its not sweet enough else you can skip this. Add the sago and stir well. Set aside and keep really chill in the fridge, the cooler it is the more yummy it is. At this stage, your dessert is almost done until serving time.
5. To serve, in a bowl add mango juice and then the mango mixture and garnish with mango cube and some pomelo. Enjoy...