Sop Buah

Name: Sop Buah
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: ½ cup condensed milk; ½ cup cold water; 1 mango; ½ pink dragon fruit; ¼ honeydew melon, seeded; 100g grass jelly

This refreshing Indonesian fruit soup is especially popular on hot days. When it’s in season I like to make dragon fruit the star of my sop buah because it’s so colourful, but use any tropical fruits you like including mango, papaya, watermelon, lychees, rambutan, or jackfruit. The other ingredients are also at your discretion, grass jelly (cincau hijau) is typical and available from Asian grocery stores, but include cubes of other agar-agar based jellies if you like and/or cooked sago pearls or soaked basil seeds. Add more or less water to the condensed milk to adjust the sweetness to suit your taste or, if you prefer, make es buah by replacing the milk with chilled sugar syrup and shaved ice. Especially when I’m using pink dragon fruit, I often serve a glass of Innocent Bystander’s lightly fruity sparkling rosé moscato with my sop buah. See video below for another easy Indonesian sweet treat. See video below for another easy Indonesian sweet treat.

Serves 4–8

Ingredients

½ cup condensed milk
½ cup cold water
1 mango
½ pink dragon fruit
¼ honeydew melon, seeded
100g grass jelly

Method

Whisk condensed milk and water together, adding more water if you like to reduce the sweetness to suit your taste. Chill well.
Peel the fruit and cut into bite-sized chunks, placing each fruit in a separate bowl.
Cut grass jelly into 1cm cubes.
Cover fruit and jelly and chill until ready to serve.
Divide condensed milk mixture between bowls or glasses.
Add fruit and jelly.
Serve as cold as possible.