Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mung bean cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mung bean cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Take 250 gram split mung beans (mung ni chhadi daal)
- Get 100 gram butter
- Make ready 150 gram sugar
- Prepare 50 gram vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 tablespoon pink tea (Royal chai)
The main ingredient, mung beans or sometimes called as green mung bean is a common and daily ingredient. Traditional Sesame Mung Bean Cake (古早味麻油绿豆糕) - Guai Shu Shu. INTRODUCTION In Singapore and Malaysia, we all know of a Chinese New Year cookies, lek tao Ko or mung bean. Mung beans can be found in Asian markets, or Asian sections of larger supermarkets.
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.
This is a very dense, moist cake. How this mung bean paste become a cake instead of a filling. As its name implies, this cake is made with a mung bean paste that is usually used as filling for many of the Asian. 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.
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