【Mung Bean Cake】——A snack to beat the heat in summer

Overview

When it comes to ingredients to relieve summer heat, the first thing that comes to mind is mung beans. According to traditional Chinese medicine: Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature. They have the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, relieving heat, diuresis, and removing acne. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", mung beans: thicken the intestines and stomach. It can be used as a pillow to improve eyesight and cure headache due to head wind. Eliminate vomiting. Treats acne and relieves swelling. There are also many ways to eat mung beans. The most common one is mung bean soup, which can be made with rice or white fungus. Today I will introduce the slightly more complicated method of making mung bean cake. Although it is relatively troublesome to make, the result is indeed more delicious~~ Ingredients: 80g mung beans, 10g fine sugar, 20g honey, 30g light cream

Tags

• snacks
• afternoon tea
• dinner with friends
• summer recipes
• relieves summer heat and quenches thirst
• honey
• mung beans
• whipping cream
• fine sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the mung beans and soak them in appropriate water overnight

   

2. 2 The next day you can see that the mung beans have become somewhat swollen and part of the skin has been burst

   

3. 3 Grab a handful of mung beans and rub them gently with both hands

   

4. 4 The mung bean skin will fall off under the action of friction. Rinse off the peeled mung bean skin with water. You can see that some mung beans have been peeled off

   

5. 5 Continue the previous step, knead and pass through water. After doing this for several times, most of the mung beans will have taken off their bean skins. The remaining mung beans that have not fallen off can be removed manually

   

6. 6 Place the peeled mung beans on the steamer and steam over high heat for about 15 minutes

   

7. 7 Steam and let cool

   

8. 8 Take a mesh sieve and place it on a small basin, add an appropriate amount of steamed mung beans, crush them with a spoon and sift

   

9. 9 The sifted mung bean puree is very delicate

   

10. 10 Add honey to mung bean puree

    

11. 11 Add whipped cream

    

12. 12 Add sugar

    

13. 13 Mix well and knead into a ball

    

14. 14 Weigh 60g of bean paste and knead it into a ball

    

15. 15 Put the bean paste balls into the mold

    

16. 16 Place upside down on a plate, press out the shape and lift the mold