Green Bean Melody Soup

 Ingredients:

180g green beans
40g dried split lotus seeds (with skin), washed and soaked for 30 ?40 minutes
1 piece dried mandarin peel (the size of a 50 sen coin)
150g castor sugar
1.8 litres water
2 screwpine leaves, shredded and knotted
25g pearl sago, washed and drained in a colander

Cooking methods:

1. Wash green beans well. Put in a container and leave in the refrigerator overnight. (This makes it easier and faster to cook the beans.)
2. Put water in a saucepot and bring to a boil. Add in green beans, lotus seeds, mandarin peel and screwpine leaves.
3. Simmer for 50?0 minutes or until beans and lotus seeds are soft.
4. Add sugar and simmer until sugar dissolves. Put in sago and keep stirring until sago is cooked and transparent.
5. Add a pinch of salt or to taste. Discard screwpine leaves. Serve immediately.