Pure fragrant mung bean cake

Pure fragrant mung bean cake

Overview

Mung bean cake is made from mung beans, also known as green adzuki beans. Traditional medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, and have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and swelling, improving eyesight and reducing nebula, and beautifying the skin. Mung bean cake can be divided into southern and northern styles according to taste. The northern style is the Beijing style, which does not add any oil when making. Although it is soft in the mouth, it has no oily feel, and is also called dry bean cake; the southern style includes the Su style and the Yang style, which requires adding oil when making, and has a soft and delicate taste. There are also single materials and complete materials. The single ingredient is made of mung beans and white sugar. Cook the mung beans and dry them, peel them, grind them finely, add sugar and mix thoroughly, sieve them in a special square steamer with a fine sieve, press them evenly with a copper spatula, cut them into suitable rectangles, and steam them. It has all the ingredients, plus green and red shredded silk, rose jam, walnut kernels, orange cake and other condiments. It is multi-flavored and suitable for the elderly and those who prefer light meals. It will feel fresh and refreshing. Mung bean cake is one of the famous Beijing-style pastries of the four seasons. It has the characteristics of regular and neat shape, light yellow color, fine and moist texture, and soft and non-sticky taste. Su-style mung bean cake, produced around the Dragon Boat Festival. There are two types: meat and vegetarian. The flavors are divided into rose, date paste, bean paste and unfilled filling (called clear water). Its characteristics are small and oily, embedded with fillings, clear printing, and delicious numbness. The raw materials for making mung bean cake include mung bean flour, pea flour, brown sugar, osmanthus, etc. It is a good summer snack that can clear away heat and detoxify, protect the liver and nourish the kidneys.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Peeled mung beans purchased online.

    Pure fragrant mung bean cake step 1

  2. Wash the mung beans with clean water and soak them in enough water for about 3-4 hours

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  3. Line the steamer with non-woven steamer cloth.

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  4. Wash the soaked mung beans and let them stand in the dehydration basket for a while, then put them into a steamer and steam them over high heat for 40-50 minutes

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  5. Gently crush the steamed mung beans with your fingers.

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  6. Crush mung beans in a food processor

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  7. Or press through the sieve with the back of a spoon

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  8. Pour the crushed mung beans and butter into the pan and stir-fry over low heat

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  9. Add appropriate amount of maltose

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  10. Fry until the mung bean flour can be kneaded into a ball with your hands.

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  11. Sprinkle an appropriate amount of cooked flour into the mold and tap off the excess. Add mung bean powder and press evenly. Turn upside down and press firmly to make the mung bean cake more shapely.

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  12. Finished mung bean cake. Store in a crisper box in the refrigerator. Eat as soon as possible.

    Pure fragrant mung bean cake step 12