Snack · 20 min · chinese

Taiwanese Shaved Ice

Weeknight-friendly Chinese cooking: Taiwanese Shaved Ice comes together in 20 minutes with shaved ice, sweetened red beans, and not much else. It is weeknight cooking that still hits your targets — 5 grams of protein per serving. Leftovers keep well, so it doubles as next-day lunch without any extra work.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 8 cups Shaved ice
• 1 cup Sweetened red beans
• 1 cup Taro balls
• 0.25 cup Condensed milk
• 1 Mango
• 0.5 cup Brown sugar syrup

Steps

1. Cook the taro balls in boiling water until they float, then chill in ice water. They should be chewy, like boba with a taro soul.
2. Shave the ice as fine as your machine allows and mound it high in chilled bowls. Fine ice absorbs syrup; coarse ice just gets wet.
3. Arrange the red beans, taro balls, and mango over the ice in neat sections — the Taiwanese way is a composed mountain, not a pile.
4. Drizzle generously with brown sugar syrup and zigzag with condensed milk.
5. Serve immediately, with long spoons. Eat fast; the mountain melts, and that is part of the fun.

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