How to cook small tapioca pearls or sago pearls

How to cook small tapioca pearls or sago pearls

Small sago or tapioca pearls are tasteless on their own. However, when added to hot dessert soups or cold desserts, it will add a chewy texture to the desserts and make them tastier.

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Cook Time 40

Total Time 40

Course Dessert

Cuisine Southeast Asia

Servings

Calories 63 kcal

Ingredients

60 g small sago
2.625 Liter water 1 Liter + 150 ml + 1 Liter

Instructions

Bring 1.5 liter of water to the boil, add in 150 ml of water, add in sago.
Bring to the boil again, turn to medium heat, cook without cover for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Off the heat, cover, let sago soaks for 10 minutes.
After soaking for 10 minutes, the sago is partially cooked (semi-translucent with white spot in the center).
Drain and rinse sago with running water until it is cooled. (Cook until this stage if sago is added to hot desserts.)
Bring another 1 liter of water to the boil, add in sago.
Bring to the boil again, off the heat, cover and soak for 5-7 minutes.
After 7 minutes, sago is fully translucent.
Drain and rinse the fully cooked sago with running water until completely cooled before adding to cold desserts.