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Preparation
1 hour 15 minutes
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Processing
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Green Bean Lychee Dessert Serves 4
Split green beans 200 gr Lychee 300 gr Rock sugar 300 gr Water 2 liters
How to choose fresh and delicious lychee
- Lychees that are pink-red in color, round, smooth-skinned, and have a lot of flesh are usually delicious and ripe. You should not choose lychees that are prickly and still green as they are very sour.
- Additionally, you should pay attention to choosing bunches of lychees that have stems attached to the fruit and still have green leaves, as these fruits are usually freshly harvested and retain their sweetness.
- Good lychee should feel slightly soft when held, and when touched, it should have a certain elasticity.
- If the lychee has thick, soft flesh, translucent white color, juicy, and easily separates from the seed, then it is delicious and sweet lychee.
Where to buy peeled mung beans and rock sugar?
- You can buy peeled mung beans and rock sugar at the nearest Bách hoá XANH supermarkets or purchase online through the website bachhoaxanh.com.
- Note that you should choose a reputable place to ensure product quality and health safety for your family.
How to make Mung Bean Lychee Dessert
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Prepare the ingredients
First, soak the mung beans in warm water for 2 – 4 hours to allow them to expand. After soaking, rinse the beans clean and let them drain.
Peel the lychee and separate the seeds from the flesh. Then rinse again with water.
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Cook the mung beans until soft
Place the mung beans in a pot, then pour in 2 liters of water, and bring the pot to a boil for 5 minutes.
When the water boils, reduce the heat and continue to cook the mung beans for another 10 minutes until they are soft.
Tip: While cooking, remember to skim off the foam to make the dessert look more appealing!
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Cook lychee dessert
After 10 minutes, add the lychee flesh into the pot and stir well.
Continue to cook for about 2 more minutes, then add 300g of rock sugar into the pot and stir well until the sugar completely dissolves.
Keep simmering for another 2 minutes, stirring continuously for the lychee and mung beans to absorb the sweetness.
At this point, when you see the mung beans just soft and the lychee flesh floating on top, taste and adjust the seasoning as desired, then turn off the heat.
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Final Product
The dessert, when cooled, has a thick consistency, the mung beans are soft, and the lychee does not break apart. When eaten, the dessert has a mild sweetness, a fragrant aroma of lychee, and a distinct scent of mung beans, with the sweet lychee pieces tasting very delicious.
Hope that with the steps to cook green bean and lychee dessert that TasteVN just shared, you can add another delicious dessert recipe to your collection. Wishing you success in making this attractive dessert!
*Source for the recipe and images from the YouTube channel Susan’s Kitchen.
