Peach Gum Dessert Sweet Soup

Peach Gum Dessert Sweet Soup (桃胶糖水) is a wonderful dessert to serve hot or cold. Peach gum dessert common recipe contains ingredients like peach gum, red dates, dried lily petals, and lotus seeds.

What is Peach Gum?

The main ingredient, peach gum is the resin from Chinese wild peach trees which naturally hardens into a gummy crystalline form on the tree bark.

Peach gum is a natural gum that is rich in collagen, galactose, rhamnose and amino acids. Collagen is a popular ingredient and nutritional supplement in most skincare and beauty products that help improve skin quality and muscle function. Collagen is one of the major building blocks of tendons, bones, ligaments, skin, and muscles. Amino acid allows collagen to be quickly absorbed into the human body. Read more about peach gum here.

In this recipe, I will cook peach gum with red dates, dried Lily petals, lotus seeds and rock sugar. This is one of the best dessert combinations and one of my childhood favourites. Peach gum is the best ingredient to include in sweet soups and desserts. Besides the wonderful taste, peach gum dessert has plenty of nutrition benefits, such as amino acids and organic acid which is believed to improve the skin lucency, decrease wrinkles and lighten dark spots.

Recipe Ingredients

The ingredient of peach gum dessert calls for:

• Peach Gum
• Red Dates
• Dried Lily Petals
• Lotus Seeds
• Rock Sugar

How to Cook the Peach Gum Dessert Sweet Soup?

1. Wash and soak peach gum overnight. Clean the impurities and drain.
2. Wash and soak the dried lily petals and lotus seeds for 1 hour.
3. In a pot, add in the peach gum, dry lily petals, lotus seeds, red dates and rock sugar. Add in 1.5 litres of water.
4. Put the pot in the wok, simmer it for 45 minutes.
5. Done and serve immediately. You may serve it cold.