Mung Bean Cakes
Mung Bean Cakes

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mung bean cakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Find Deals on Mung Bean Cakes in Groceries on Amazon. 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.

Mung Bean Cakes is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mung Bean Cakes is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mung bean cakes using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mung Bean Cakes:
  1. Prepare 1 cup peeled green beans
  2. Make ready 2 Tbs sugar
  3. Make ready 4.5 Tbs maple syrup
  4. Take 4 Tbs low-fat, salt-free butter (soften)
  5. Prepare (Note: You may increase butter to 5.5 Tbs)

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. The main ingredient, mung beans or sometimes called as green mung bean is a common and daily ingredient in Chinese cooking. Every time people have the opportunity to visit Hai Duong, they correctly choose a few boxes of mung bean cakes to bring back as gifts.

Instructions to make Mung Bean Cakes:
  1. Rinse the mung bean several times with water until the water is clear, soak in water overnight. (add water at least 3 inches above the top of the beans.)
  2. Drain, after soaking. Set the steamer: Add enough water in the bottom of the pot. Cover the steamer and bring the water to boil. Place mung beans in the steamer and steam for 30 minutes. (you may cover a parchment paper under the lid to prevent extra water falling in to the beans.) Check the cooked mung beans: It should have a soft texture when squeezed between your fingers.
  3. Meanwhile, prepare Mooncake Mold: I use the jelly mold, rinse it with hot water, and set dry. (You can apply a thin layer of oil in the mold to help demolding if needed)
  4. Use a food processor to break the steamed mung beans into fine powder when it is still hot.
  5. Add sugar, maple syrup, and butter into the food processor. Blend everything together until smoothly. (This is "Mung bean paste" which can be used as a filling for other desserts)
  6. Preheat a pan, use a paper towel to apply a thin layer of oil to the bottom of the pan. Fold the mung bean paste over medium/small heat until the paste dries up and become a soft/ smooth dough.
  7. Transfer the dough to a bowl and let it cool down a bit about 5 minutes. Wear gloves, apply a little butter on the gloves. Take a small portion of the mung bean paste then roll it into a round ball (about 30 g per ball). Gently press it into mold.
  8. Let it cool down more in the mold about 10 minutes. Put a parchment paper on the cooling grid, demold the mung bean cake on it, let sit until completely cool down. Enjoy it directly or chill in the refrigerator then eat it cold as the iced mung bean cake. (This is a low-fat formula, so the product is easy to break/crack, depending on personal preference, you may increase the amount of butter to 5.5 tablespoons)

Of all the kinds of cake to taste with a cup of hot tea, mung bean cake is the best. How to make mung bean pancakes. To make these pancakes, you'll need to soak the dried mung beans in water for a few hours, and then ground into a batter. I usually buy pre-hulled and split ones, so soaking and preparing the beans is fairly simple. Growing up, we used to have a stone mill, called maetdol (맷돌), to grind soaked beans.

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