Pure Fragrant Mung Bean Cake

Name: Pure Fragrant Mung Bean Cake
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 200g Peeled mung beans; 20g butter; 40g maltose

by Meng Yue's small stove

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

Mung bean cake is made from mung beans, which is also called green adzuki beans. Traditional medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxins, eliminating heat and quenching thirst, diminishing hydration, reducing swelling, improving eyesight, relieving haze, and beautifying skin.
Mung bean cake is divided into south and north according to taste. The north is Beijing style. No fat is added when making it. Although the mouth is soft, it has no oily feeling. It is also called "dry bean cake"; the south includes Su style and Yang style. When adding oil, the taste is soft and delicate. There are also single materials and full materials. The single material is made of mung beans and white sugar. Boil the mung beans to dry, peel and grind them, 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. Serve. Whole ingredients, plus green and red silk, rose jam, walnut kernels, orange cake and other condiments, with equal emphasis on multiple flavors. It is fresh and refreshing for the elderly and those who like to eat.
Mung bean cake is one of the famous Beijing-style four-season pastries. It has the characteristics of regular and neat shape, light yellow color, fine and tight organization, soft taste, soft and non-sticky taste.
Su-style mung bean cake, produced around the Dragon Boat Festival. There are two types: meat and vegetarian. The flavor is divided into rose, jujube puree, red bean paste and no filling (called clear water). Its characteristics are compact and oily, with embedded fillings, clear prints, and delicious flavor.
The raw materials for making mung bean cakes are mung bean powder, pea powder, yellow sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus, etc. It is a good summer snack for clearing away heat and detoxifying, protecting the liver and kidney. "

Ingredients

Pure Fragrant Mung Bean Cake

1. Peeled mung beans purchased online.

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

3. Cover the steamer with a non-woven steamer cloth.

4. The soaked mung beans are washed and dehydrated, and let stand for a while, and steam for 40-50 minutes in a steamer

5. The steamed mung beans are crushed by gently squeezing them with your fingers.

6. The food processor smashes the mung beans

7. Or use the back of a spoon to press the sieve through the sieve

8. Pour crushed mung beans and butter in a pan, stir fry over low heat

9. Add the right amount of maltose

10. Stir-fry until mung bean flour can be kneaded into a ball by hand.

11. Sprinkle an appropriate amount of cooked flour in the mold and gently nip off the excess cooked flour. Add mung bean flour and press evenly. Press the inverted button tightly to make the mung bean cake more stylish.

12. Mung bean cake finished product. Put it into the fresh-keeping box and store it in the refrigerator. Consume as soon as possible.

Tips:
Ready-made peeled mung beans will be more convenient. If not, you need to soak the mung beans and peel them by hand. The frying time of mung bean cake does not need to be too long, and the butter and sugar are mixed well. Butter can be replaced with other vegetable oils, the mung bean cake made of butter will have a milky aroma. Maltose can also be replaced with white sugar, honey, and osmanthus sugar.