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Home / Cuisine / Asian / Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 July 24, 2012 · Updated: 💻October 3, 2017 · 🗨 28 Comments

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Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

Many Chinese sweet soup desserts are taken warm or even piping hot. The latter may seem counter intuitive especially on a hot summer’s day. However, there is a vein of traditional Chinese thinking that the hot soup will actually open your sweat glands and pores to help the body cool off. On the last bit I will leave it to my illustrious readers to decide for themselves. 🙂

As an antidote to the wonderful spicy food that I have enjoyed in the past several weeks, there are few better simple and sweet soups like this Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup. This is my Hokkien (Fujianese) dessert counterpart to my previous post on Hokkien Hae Mee. A perfect afternoon snack would have been to partake one after the other. 😯

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

The version that I grew up with has a clear syrup made with rock sugar or white granulated sugar. Some families use brown sugar, often mistaken for a savory soy sauce dish. The ginger is a must as it gives the soup an unmistakable “warming” flavor similar to that of Teh Halia (Ginger Tea). Chinese old wives tales attribute ginger with the property of “chasing the wind” out of the body. One just has to assume that this singular event is a good thing for your health.

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

During my recent visit to Malaysia, I actually hankered for this dessert but made Bubur Cha Cha instead with the available purple sweet potatoes and taro. Ahh…all the hard decisions that one is faced with! Nevertheless, I made up for it by making the soup now back here in Minnesota where orange colored sweet potatoes are plentiful and the preferred color for this very dish. Now, that the wind has been “chased out” of me, I can happily share this recipe with you.

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. | RotiNRice.com
5 from 3 votes

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup

Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only a few ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Dessert
Cuisine : Chinese
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Servings : 4
Calories : 149kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 small sweet potatoes (peeled and cut into bite size pieces) (about 10 oz/300g)
  • 2 inch ginger (peeled and crushed) (60g)
  • ¼ cup sugar (55g)

Instructions
 

  • Place all ingredients together with 2 cups (480ml) water in a medium sized saucepan. Bring it to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
    Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup-5
  • Remove and serve warm or chilled.

Nutrition

Calories: 149kcal
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Sweet Potatoes in Ginger Syrup is a delicious and warming Chinese dessert using only 3 ingredients. It takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎


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Categories: 🗂 Asian, Dessert, Dorm Cooking Tags: 📋 Chinese, ginger, sweet potatoes

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  1. Raymund says

    July 25, 2012 at 2:03 am

    Nice and simple dessert! I never tried this before but I tried eating boiled sweet potatoes while sipping ginger tea 🙂

    Reply
    • Biren says

      July 25, 2012 at 10:30 am

      That should work too! 😀

      Reply
  2. Angie@Angie's Recipes says

    July 25, 2012 at 3:09 am

    This reminds me of my mom’s afternoon snack in the summer time! Delish!

    Reply
    • Biren says

      July 25, 2012 at 10:31 am

      Thanks Angie! This snack reminds me of my childhood. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Shu han says

    July 25, 2012 at 4:47 am

    5 stars
    My mum does that too! Super simple but effective and yummy!

    Reply
    • Biren says

      July 25, 2012 at 10:32 am

      I agree that this is super easy, yummy, and satisfying. 🙂

      Reply
  4. MaryMoh says

    July 25, 2012 at 7:37 am

    5 stars
    I love sweet potatoes and I’m all for this …..mmmm….healthy and delicious.

    Reply
    • Biren says

      July 25, 2012 at 10:33 am

      Sweet potatoes are just the best. I love them too!

      Reply
  5. denise @ singapore shiok says

    July 25, 2012 at 9:28 am

    Wow, your pictures are stunning. Is this the new lens at work?? This is one of my favourite desserts. Chocolate anything is great, but too much leaves me with a feeling of surfeit – so jelak 😛 Where sweet potato soup is concerned (yes I call it that lol) I can never get enough!

    Reply
    • Biren says

      July 25, 2012 at 10:37 am

      Thanks Denise! Yes, this is the new lens at work. I only needed to take a few shots with the baby and I’m done. I love it!

      BTW, I bought a pack of dark chocolate with sea salt from Godiva this time and it was sooooo good. I have to agree though that too much chocolate can be “jelak”. That’s why we need this sweet potato soup to “chase away the wind”. 😉

      Reply
  6. PolaM says

    July 25, 2012 at 11:27 am

    These look truly delicious! I will have to try them soon!

    Reply
  7. Haruna says

    July 25, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Looks so good, and great pictures too.

    Reply
  8. Cheah says

    July 25, 2012 at 11:43 am

    This ‘tong sui’ is perfect to snack on and more fragrant with pandan leaves. I like mine warm!

    Reply
  9. Shri says

    July 25, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Loved this Biren; not a fan of sweet potato but this is so tempting!

    Biren, I find the comment section very difficult; even if one types in the CAPTCHA code correctly, it goes on for at least 2-3 attempts before allowing a comment.
    4th time
    5th time

    Reply
  10. Ramona says

    July 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    I bet this was sweet and delicious. 🙂

    Reply
  11. kitchenriffs says

    July 25, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    A new way to eat sweet potatoes! Looks terrific. Ginger is one of my favorite flavorings, and I actually totally buy into the spicy food has a cooling effect. Or maybe I just rationalize because I like spicy? Could be. 😉 Nice post – thanks.

    Reply
  12. mjskit says

    July 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Oh-I can see how this would be good warm or cold! So simple and what a perfect combination – sweet potatoes and ginger! Love this!

    Reply
  13. kitchen flavours says

    July 26, 2012 at 9:39 am

    One of my favourite tong shui! I like to boil the syrup with pandan leaves for 20-30 minutes to infuse the taste of the ginger, then add in the sweet potatoes! Love it!

    Reply
  14. Lyndsey says

    July 27, 2012 at 8:29 am

    It does look good, I have never tried it before. I love food that bring back such good memories. We are able to get purple sweet potatoes more and more around here.At first is was just in my local Asian store, but now even in the Amish produce store that I love because it carries many local fresh from the farm produce.

    Reply
  15. mycookinghut says

    July 28, 2012 at 11:17 am

    You made one of my favourite tong sui! Mom made this a lot when I was younger..

    Reply
  16. Magic of Spice says

    July 30, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    I love sweet potatoes and adore ginger, so this has my name written all over it 🙂

    Reply
  17. Jessica says

    September 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    In Japan they call catching a cold “catching the wind”, so it’s a good thing to chase the wind away. 😉

    Reply
  18. Klee says

    April 16, 2016 at 8:42 am

    Thank you for the recipe, one of my favorite Tong Sui :-). As a Malaysian living in Switzerland I crave for Malaysian food all the time. Never knew the simple recipe could result in this tasy soup dessert…made it today and it was a treat!

    Reply
    • Linda says

      April 16, 2016 at 10:17 am

      You are welcome, Klee! I am very happy to hear that you were able to make this simple dessert and enjoy it. Please also check out my other website, Malaysian Chinese Kitchen for more traditional recipes. 🙂

      Reply
  19. Shenise Ang says

    August 4, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    Hihi, Can I use Japanese purple sweet potatoes instead?

    Reply
    • Linda says

      August 6, 2016 at 1:00 am

      Yes, you can. 🙂

      Reply
  20. Juanita lim says

    November 11, 2022 at 5:51 am

    5 stars
    Hi Linda thank you for sharing,ginger ssweet potatoe, I made it it tasted awesome, luckily I had the orange sweet potato excellent.

    Reply
    • Linda says

      January 2, 2023 at 9:19 pm

      I am glad to hear you enjoyed this simple recipe. I love it too.

      Reply

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