Song Que's Bananas With Tapioca Pearls (Che Chuoi)

This pudding, similar galore desserts autochthonal to Vietnam, is some saccharine and starchy -- a cleanable finishing people connected a blistery day.

You'll request to bargain small, achromatic tapioca pearls, not the larger, caramel-colored pearls utilized for bubble teas. Thanh Tran, matriarch of the Vietnamese household down Four Sisters successful the Merrifield Town Center and the Song Que deli successful Falls Church, relies connected the fresher tapioca pearls disposable online astatine Amazon.com and different online sites. If you usage the hard, dried assortment sold astatine Asian supermarkets specified arsenic Great Wall successful Rockville and Falls Church, you'll person to show your cooking process. It mightiness instrumentality longer for the pearls to go translucent.

Pandan leaves are an indispensable portion of the dessert, imparting sweet, grassy and floral notes to the dish. You tin find them successful the freezer lawsuit successful Asian supermarkets.

The dessert tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 days.

Adapted from Thanh Tran of Song Que deli successful the Eden Center.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12)

• Calories

  250

• Fat

  10 g

• Saturated Fat

  9 g

• Carbohydrates

  42 g

• Sodium

  105 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  25 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Thanh Tran of Song Que deli successful the Eden Center.

Tested by Tim Carman.