Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mung bean cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mung bean cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Mung bean cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Mung bean cake is one of the traditional special pastries, which is a summer snack. According to legend, in ancient China, in order to seek safety and health, dumplings, realgar wine, mung bean cake, and salted duck eggs were eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mung bean cake (lvdougao) is a traditional and popular Chinese dessert in summer. The main ingredient, mung beans or sometimes called as green mung bean is a common and daily ingredient in Chinese cooking.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mung bean cake using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mung bean cake:
- Get 250 gram split mung beans (mung ni chhadi daal)
- Prepare 100 gram butter
- Get 150 gram sugar
- Get 50 gram vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 tablespoon pink tea (Royal chai)
The cake is often used when drinking green tea because it will create a sense of relaxation. There are many ways to use Mung beans. You can sprout, cook, or ground them to make flour. In some Asian countries, like in Thailand we make it into a paste, sweeten it, and use it as a filling in pastries or make a cake.
Instructions to make Mung bean cake:
- Soak the mung beans for 4 hours. Rinse and pressure cook using water slightly covering the mung beans. Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Remove from pressure cooker and blitz it in a food processor until the mixture is smooth.
- Transfer the paste in a non stick pan. Add butter and vegetable oil to the paste. Cook on medium heat stirring continuously. Once the oil and butter is incorporated add sugar and keep stirring until it forms a dough.
- Divide the mixture in 2 parts. Add 3 tablespoon of Royal pink tea in one part of the mixture and leave the other part plain. - Divide the mixture into smaller balls while the mixture is warm. Shape with a mooncake mould or any other mould you prefer.
You can sprout, cook, or ground them to make flour. In some Asian countries, like in Thailand we make it into a paste, sweeten it, and use it as a filling in pastries or make a cake. Mung bean cakes & mung bean mooncakes are a popular snack in China, Taiwan and Asia. According to some health website, mung bean consumption helps in the detoxification process in our body and also helps to alleviate gastrointestinal disorders. It is effective especially for removing body heat, so it is widely used in the Summer.
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