Mung Beans Dessert

Mung Beans Dessert.

Some call it Mung Beans, some Cantonese call it green beans, some call it green gram. What about you? It was said that it is full with vitamins and also for Chinese believe it could clean heat and toxins in the body as this bean is park under the cooling category. Mom only mentioned not to have this if I have diarrhea.  Well, I can’t really comment much as I am no doctor here. Eat at your own risk. Many many Chinese have this as a sweet dessert, so that is what I am going to make for now.

Before you start to make this dessert, you would have to soak mung bean for about 6 hours but NOT more than 8 hours. If do more than eight (8) hours, you don’t need to make mung bean dessert anymore, you can change to cooking vegetable bean sprout dish (Taugeh). If you soak them for too long, the roots start to grow, your green bean would look like infested with worms because you will see tiny little tails growing out on each bean or just like some tiny worm trying to squeeze out from the shell. So if you don’t feel like having this dessert, you may sprout them and get bean sprout meal.

How to determine the beans are cook. The beans will start to turn soft and the skin of the beans will start to peel off.

  

I bought the rock sugar in tiny cubes so I could just spoon it out instead of weigh it.

Wonder what is pandan leaves? It’s also known as screwpines.

Gula Melaka = palm sugar.

Ingredients

1 pack green beans

2 tablespoon of rock sugar , 3 pandan leaves

½ pack dry longan or 15 pieces

½ roll palm sugar

Prepare & cook

Boil beans 20-30minutes with 3 pandan leaves

Add 2 tablespoon of rock sugar

Add dry longan

½ roll palm sugar

Use low heat, boil another 15minutes

If it dries up, add ½ cup water

Taste the sweetness

If not sweet enough for you, add more sugar,

Boil another 20-30minutes

Check the beans texture, if it is still intact with the dark green skin, continue boil.

Hmm... the sweet aromatic smell of the palm sugar and longan, can't wait to eat them.

Sorry this look so messy in the pot, I should have taken it after i place it my bowl, but I forgot to snap it as i was to eager to eat them up.  Next time hopefully I would remember to snap one.