Longan and Snow Fungus Dessert Soup龙眼雪耳糖水
Snow fungus or White fungus is a type of jelly fungus that is used in Chinese cuisine. This product is often purchased dried and must be soaked before use. It was traditionally used in sweet dessert soup.


Ingredients:
60g Snow fungus
50g Chinese red dates ~pitted, rinsed and drained
1 can Longan ~drained (I used can longan to substitute dried longan)
200g Sugar or add to taste
5 Pandan leaves ~rinsed and tied into a knot
2 Litre Water
Method:
- Soak snow fungus in water for 30 minutes to rehydrate or until soft, then washed and use scissors to cut into smaller pieces.
- Put Snow fungus, red dates and pandan leaves into a pot and bring to boil over medium heat ~ then simmer at low heat until fungus and red dates are tender, about 30 minutes. Lastly pour in longan and simmer for another 10 minutes. Add sugar to taste.
- Discard pandan leaves before serving, either hot or cold.
Kitchen note: Can also add ginko nuts and wolfberries in this dessert soup
Hi Ann! How should I adjust the ingredients if I’m preparing for 15 pax? Thanks
Hi Ai Li, can double the recipe and increase the water volume and sugar to your taste.
Thank you!
If I were to use dried longan, how much to add? Thanks
Thanks! If I were to use dried longans, how many to add for 15 pax? Thanks
can add about 30 or more but add sugar to taste last because dried longans is very sweet. Add more water if dessert soup is too sweet.
This looks so entiing. Now to find the ingredients…not easy in MN. But it's so pretty!
Oh dear, this sounds terrific especially during this kind of heaty weather! Gosh, it was so hot over here eventhough it's raining almost every evening. Hope you're having a cool cool day!
Cheers, Kristy
gotta try this soon :)..looks gorgeous and yummy
I miss all these desserts and seldom make them here ourselves. Good to see it blogged.
I like this dessert too…cold in Singapore but warm in California.
I would love to have this served cold … the recent hot spell has been too much to bear and this dessert would have been a welcomed treat!
I loves this, but never made b4, normally buy from outside…
This dessert is my favourite food in winters. I sometime use snow fungus to cook Chinese soup,very healthy.
This is my all-time favourite, be it hot or cold.
Healthy dessert. Thanks for sharing this recipe, I should try it at home 🙂
Thank you Madin for visiting me again. Love your comment.
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Anyway thank you very much for letting me know ;D
this remind me I have quite long did not cook this soup, i must cook this soon.
Thanks Sweetum ;D
Rachel: 你那里容易找到这些才料吗?我想到Chinatown 应该有。
Thank you Mymoonah for visiting 😉
Yee Er: 呵呵。。。你说错了!你的才是正版呢。
Zerrin: Yes, please try this 🙂 You'll love it.
哈哈~我的版本是银耳,红枣和莲子。觉得喝起来特别养颜。 很久没有煲了,先拿你的解馋,不介意吧!!
Hi Ann, I love Snow Fungus Soup. And this dessert is just unique, with the longan, just great. Thank you for sharing.
最近这里天气很干,这个滋润的糖水来得恰到好处。。^^
I haven't haerd of snow fungus before,looks good. All your recipes are mouthwatering, happy to follow you:-)
Wiffy: Thanks! Must have of this ;DLS: Oh really? I thought this is very common in Japan.Jess: Sometime I also add sweet potato in it ;))Angie: Next time I'll lotus seed. Thanks ;))Thanks Suma.Blessed Homemaker: Yes, I used to add dried longan too but forgot to buy, so just add can longan.Cheah: Due to the hot weather we really need a lot of "TongShui".Shirley: hahaa…you're right!Cherry Potato: 对了。。多喝。。对身体有益 *.*Foodessa: Thanks for your comment.Thank you Rachana.Little Inbox: Thanks, next time I must add hard boiled egg too.Clare: hehee…sorry to make you jealous *.* Anyway thank you for your compliments.
I cooked this quite some time ago. My version is using dried longan and I have some hard-boiled quail eggs added. See here
I can't see all the photos even after 3 times refresh and click the photo but I can imagine it's must taste really good..especially I love longan!!
A very unique recipe! Never had such a dessert before. As I love dates, I must try this.
The soup looks so lovely and refreshing! You have such interesting and beautiful ingredients in there.
来我家,我会马上煮给你喝。。。哈。。
Thanks Mimi 😉
WOW Tata! This is interesting, fry with flour? must show me how you do it one day.
Mimid3vils: hahaa…really? But snow fungus is really healthy and is not cheap now 😉
Lisa: Thanks for coming and your nice comment.
够养颜,我要喝。。哈。。
I am fascinated by all these unusual and delicious ingredients in your cuisine; I would love to try and incorporate them in mine!
HI Anncoo! Thank you for visiting our blog. I love snow fungus with the texture and now i know their benefits. it's been a long time since i had this type of sweet soup. My mom would double boil it with papaya n apricot seed….miss that. Well now you remind that i need to add some snow fungus to my pantry. Perfect my skin been dry lately 🙂
Thank you!
Lisa
The snow fungus looks so pretty in the soup. A good soup for a warm day!
snow fungus = poor people bird nest 😉
Used to cook chicken soup with this fungus. Somehow I have forgotten to make a sweet drink out of it. Thanks for reminding me. I love this one…very simple to cook, too.
wow this looks so cool, love the way this puff up thanks for coming on my hols with me love Rebecca
I have never had this before, so interesting.
Mimi
Oh! I haven't had this dessert for so long…yours look so beautiful…great pictures as always 😉
Thanks ALL for reading this post and your nice compliments ;DD
Snow Fungus! Now I have a huge stock of it :D. I like to fry it with seasoned flour as a snack hehehe. Thanks for your dessert idea 😀
Love the crunchy fungus texture, but this is my first meeting with the whole snow fungus! Looks really interesting like a see sponge 😀
Ann I'm so jealous that you know how to make every Asian classic in the book =) Your blog always stirs up my appetite…
我前两天也煮了这道很滋润的糖水咧!
I like snow fungus soup…esp. when cooked with lotus seeds..just heavenly.
Your blog is opening up a whole new world of food to me Anncoo…Unfortunately, we do not get a lot of things here:-((.The snow fungus looks so pretty!!
in such hot weather, this dessert is so refreshing!
This is what I need right now, to cool down! You've said it right, insane weather!
I wanted to make this dessert for some time already. your bowl looks delicious and nourishing 🙂
I haven't tried this before…looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing such unique and flavourful recipes.
I admit to never having tried any dish like this before…very interesting. I have to look into some of these ingredients before commenting further ;o)Thanks for sharing and flavourful wishes, Claudia
I haven't had this in a long time! I usually don't add pandan leaves, should be really refreshing!
We ladies should eat more white fungus! It is the poor man's bird's nest – full of collagen and help to firm up the skin!
thanks for the info about the benefit of snow fungus referred as poor man's bird's nest. malays especially are not used to such healthy sweet soup.thanks…time to check my healthy diet…
Coincidentally I cooked this 2 weekends ago but haven't got time to blog about it. I used dried Thai longan.