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 fruit 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. See video below for another easy Indonesian sweet treat.
Serves 4–8
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