Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mung bean cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. The Mung Bean Cake is said to be an ancient cake in China.
Mung bean cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mung bean cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mung bean cake using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mung bean cake:
- Get 250 gram split mung beans (mung ni chhadi daal)
- Make ready 100 gram butter
- Prepare 150 gram sugar
- Prepare 50 gram vegetable oil
- Get 3 tablespoon pink tea (Royal chai)
Mung beans can be found in Asian markets, or Asian sections of larger supermarkets. This is a very dense, moist cake. These are Mung Bean cakes a.k.a Banh Dau Xanh in Vietnamese. They are popular year round and make great gifts for those coming back from their travels in Vietnam.
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.
Find mung bean cake stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. These Mung Bean Cakes are made with split mung beans and they can pass off as mooncakes as they are shaped using the plunger moulds for mooncakes. This recipe for Filipino-style monggo beans (aka mung bean soup) is so easy! Monggos are the same thing as mung beans. They are widely used in Asian countries and they cook almost exactly.
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