Mung bean cake

Overview

Mung bean cake is said to have originated in ancient China. In order to seek safety and health during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to eating rice dumplings, people also drank realgar wine, mung bean cake and salted duck eggs, three cooling foods, to avoid diseases caused by the summer solstice.

Tags

• snacks
• common dishes
• old man
• afternoon tea
• bean paste filling
• corn oil
• honey
• mung bean flour
• soft white sugar
• sugar osmanthus
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare materials.

   

2. 2 Cover the mung bean flour with plastic wrap.

   

3. 3 Steam in a steamer over water for 25 minutes.

   

4. 4 Steamed mung bean flour will agglomerate and need to be broken up

   

5. 5 Sift the steamed mung bean flour

   

6. 6 Put the sugar osmanthus, honey, and white sugar into a bowl and stir evenly.

   

7. 7 Add the prepared honey, sweet-scented osmanthus, white sugar, and corn oil to the sifted mung bean flour.

   

8. 8 Mix well.

   

9. 9 Divide the bean paste filling into equal portions.

   

10. 10 The live mung bean flour is also divided equally.

    

11. 11 Fill one-third of the mold with mung bean flour and compact it tightly.

    

12. 12 Then add bean paste filling.

    

13. 13 Then fill the mold with mung bean flour and compact it.

    

14. 14 Just remove the mold.