Shwe Yin Aye and Mont Lat Saung

 Shwe Yin Aye and Mont Lat Saung

Shwe Yin Aye is a Thingyan dessert and depending on the area, jelly has different colours– either green or white. White jelly is original colour and if you add pandan juice, you can get green colour. People from Southern Myanmar eat this dessert with white jelly and jiggery juice and it is called mont lat saung. People from yangon and Mandalay enjoy eating green jelly with coconut milk.

 

Shwe Yin Aye is prepared with steamed sticky rice, coconut milk, coconut milk jelly, sugar, bread and ice. Most of  the families donate Shwe Yin Aye for free to everyone. This dessert is also similar to some of the desserts from other Asian countries. Now I would like to give you recipe of mont lat saung jelly. Because other ingredients are easy to made and coconut milk jelly is already uploaded.

Mont lat saung jelly

Preparation time 10min

Cooking time   30min

Cuisine - Myanmar (Burmese)

Ingredients for mont lat saung jelly

Mung bean flour           75g

Rice Flour        60g

Topioca Flour   30g

Water   1L

Pandan Juice

Instructions for mont lat saung jelly

1.       Mix mung bean flour, rice flour and tapioca flour with water 600g in a pot with low heat and mix one direction.

2.       Add water slowly and mix until it thicken. Add pandan juice depend on your favorite colour.

3.       Transfer jelly to sieve with middle holes and press with big spoon into big bowl with ice or cool water.

4.       Now you can get mont lat saung jelly. If you want to drink only mont lat saung, take one glass or bowl and add mont lat saung jelly, coconut shredded and jaggery juice or coconut milk juice.

 

Shwe Yin Aye

Cooking time   5 min

Ingredients for Shwe Yin Aye

Mont lat saung jelly      2Tbsp

Tapioca 2Tbsp

Coconut Milk Jelly       3-5g

Streamed sticky rice     1Tbsp

Coconut milk   1Tbsp

Liquid Sugar    4Tbsp

Salt      little

Bread   2Slice

Evaporated milk           1Tsp

Ice

Instructions for Shwe Yin Aye

1.       Put all ingredients in a bowl or glass and serve cool.