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Preparation
10 minutes
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Processing
50 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Green bean cake is a dessert that frequently appears on the dining tables of Vietnamese people, captivating everyone from children to the elderly with its fragrant and rich flavor. Let’s join the Into the Kitchen section of TasteVN to make this delicious traditional dessert.
Ingredients for Green Bean Cake Serves 4
Peeled green beans 250 gr Coconut milk 2 tablespoons Sugar 250 gr Salt 1/2 teaspoon
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to select good peeled green beans
- First, to make a delicious green bean cake, you should choose beans that are medium-sized and uniform, not too large.
- Next, you should select beans that are yellow, shiny, and plump. When held, the beans should feel firm and slightly hard.
- Avoid choosing beans that have unusual colors, are broken, or have a musty smell, or are infested with worms as these will make the dish less tasty.
Where to buy coconut milk?
- To save time, you can buy canned coconut milk at supermarkets, grocery stores, or e-commerce websites. Additionally, you can also purchase coconut milk at TasteVN stores nationwide!
- To make it authentic, you can also make coconut milk at home following the recipe from TasteVN.
How to make Mung Bean Dessert
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Preparation and soaking mung beans
Wash the mung beans thoroughly with water three times, removing any damaged or broken beans that float to the surface. Next, place the beans in a bowl and add enough water to soak them for 3 – 4 hours until the beans soften.
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Cooking mung beans
After the mung beans have soaked and softened, remove them, rinse with water 2 times to clean, and then put them into pot. Add enough water to cover the mung beans and add 1/2 spoon of salt.
Place the pot of mung beans on stove, bring to a boil over high heat until bubbles form, then use a ladle to skim off all the white foam on top, cover the pot, reduce the heat to the lowest setting, and simmer the beans for 40 minutes.
After 40 minutes, when the mung beans are soft, add 250g of sugar to the pot and stir well with a ladle. Next, add 2 tablespoons of coconut milk and stir continuously for 7 minutes. Then turn off the heat and cover the pot again.
Note: When adding sugar and coconut milk, you must stir continuously for 7 minutes to prevent the dessert from burning at the bottom of the pot!After the dessert pot has cooled for 5 minutes, scoop all the dessert into a large bowl and let it cool completely.
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Final Product
After the mung bean sticky rice has cooled and hardened, flip it onto a plate and use a knife to cut into shapes. The mung bean sticky rice has an eye-catching yellow color, an attractive aroma, and a soft yet firm texture that everyone will surely love!
You can drizzle some coconut milk on top to enjoy with it; the light creaminess of the coconut milk will definitely enhance the flavor of the dessert.
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The dish green bean pudding is both delicious and visually appealing, be sure to save the recipe so that one day when you enter the kitchen, you can show off your skills and make the offering for the ancestors even more beautiful! Wishing you great success in your cooking.
