Sweet soup or 糖水 (táng shǔi) is a very traditional type of Chinese desserts. Hence, they’re typically served after dinner and are seldom heavy in texture. Besides being delicious, they usually will have some medicinal benefits. For example, red bean soup is good for kidneys and sweet potato and ginger sweet soup is good for digestion. The sweet soup recipe that I’m sharing is Asian Pear Peach Resin Sweet Soup 雪梨桃膠糖水 (xǔe lí táo jīao táng shǔi).
Asian pears are high in vitamin C, vitamin K and potassium. They are mildly sweet and a little tangy. They can soothe a sore throat or cough. So it's not surprising that they can help to extinguish the “heatiness” in your body (heatiness can lead to constipation, breakouts, constipation and irritability).
Peach resin or peach gum is the resin found on the bark of wild peach trees. They also have a beautiful yet melancholic name, “peach blossom tears” in China. You can buy peach resin from Chinese herbal stores or even in some Chinese Supermarkets. The use of peach resin for medicinal purposes dates back thousands of years. Chinese people used it to treat digestive issues, skin issues as well as detoxify the blood.
Contrary to popular belief, it does not contain any collagen but is said to have properties to beautify the skin. Collagen can only be found in animals. However, peach resin contains the amino acids that can help promote collagen production and absorption. The only downside to using peach resin is the cleaning. You'll need to use tweezers or a fish bone remover to help remove the debris that was trapped in the resin. I actually find it quite satisfying when I see all the debris that I was able to remove from the resin. Or is that just me?! Going through and removing debris from 10 grams of resin will take around 30 minutes. But did I mention that it can beautify your skin? Totally worth it!!
My Asian Pear Peach Resin Sweet Soup 雪梨桃膠糖水 recipe is very straight forward. Only 4 ingredients…Asian pear, peach resin, water and honey. You can have it hot or cold and perfect for the whole family!
Looking for more healthy options? Try my recipes for Apple Fig Tea 蘋果無花果茶 or Longan Red Date Ginger Tea 桂圓紅棗姜茶.
Asian Pear Peach Resin Sweet Soup 雪梨桃膠糖水
Ingredients
- 2 Asian pears
- 10 g Peach resin, dried
- 1 L Water
- 4 tbsp Honey
Instructions
- On the night before, soak 10g of peach resin in 2 cups of water. Let it soak overnight
- There will be little twigs or stones in the resin that need to be removed. Prepare a fish bone remover or tweezers, a bowl of water to rinse the tweezers and a clean container.
- Take some of the resin into the palm of your hand and remove the debris from the resin and put the debris into the bowl of water. The cleaned resin goes into the clean container. Continue until the resin is completely clear of foreign materials
- Rinse the resin and pour it through a sieve and let the water drain
- Peel and cut the Asian pears into halves
Alternatively, you can also dice the Asian pears - Make a “V” cut to remove the top and bottom ends of the core
- Use a melon baller to scoop out the middle of the core
- Put the 4 halves of the Asian pears and the cleaned peach resin into a pot
- Pour 1L of water over the pears.
- Turn heat to medium-high until the water boils, then reduce the heat to low and cook for 20 minutes
- After 20 minutes, flip the Asian pears over and cook for another 25 minutes
- After 25 minutes, add 4 tbsp of honey and mix well. Taste and add more honey if necessary
- Serve
I added cranberries to the picture with the diced Asian pears 
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