5 Mung Bean Snack Recipes to Accompany Your Weekend

Kapanlagi.com - Mung beans are one of the types of legumes that are widely liked by the Indonesian people. Its very small size with a considerable amount is usually made into porridge for breakfast. This is because mung beans contain a high amount of carbohydrates. In addition to being made into porridge, there are many recipes for processed mung beans that can be used as food and healthy snacks.

Mung beans are one of the green legumes that have a lot of vitamin content. The vitamin content in mung beans consists of calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, vitamins A, B, C, E, and K, folate, manganese, selenium, magnesium, and carbohydrates. That's why mung beans have many benefits for our body. Therefore, it doesn't hurt to make processed mung bean recipes as a reference when you are bored with the same types. Quoted from various sources, here are 5 processed mung bean recipes that can be made into healthy snacks at home.

1. Molen Filled with Green Beans

Molen Filled with Green Beans (credit: instagram.com/makan_boyolali)

Green bean snack recipe that can accompany your first weekend, there is molen with green bean filling. If usually molen is filled with bananas, now you can be creative with green beans. The ingredients and how to make it are as follows:

Skin Ingredients:

250 grams of high protein flour

50 grams of powdered sugar

60 grams of butter or margarine, melted

50 ml warm water

1 egg yolk

Some ripe bananas

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Filling Ingredients:

100 grams of green beans, boiled until tender

100 ml of coconut milk

50 grams of granulated sugar (according to taste)

50 grams of palm sugar

Some vanilla or pandan leaves

1/4 teaspoon of salt

How to Make the Filling:

- Cook the green beans with coconut milk. Once cooked, you can blend them.

- Then add granulated sugar, palm sugar, vanilla, and salt. Stir until well combined.

- Cook the filling mixture again over low heat until it thickens and can be shaped.

- Then shape the mixture into elongated shapes.

How to Make the Skin:

- Mix the flour, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Stir until well combined.

- Add the egg yolk and melted butter. Gradually pour in the water and knead the dough until smooth.

- Then cover the dough with plastic wrap or a clean cloth and let it rest for about 20 minutes.

- After that, take a portion of the dough, roll it out to a thickness of about 2 mm. Cut into long pieces. Fill with elongated green bean filling.

- Prepare hot oil, fry until golden brown. When frying, make sure all parts are exposed to oil.

- When cooked, remove and drain. Finished green bean filling molen is ready to be served.

2. Green Bean Ice

Green Bean Ice (credit: instagram.com/fenita.d2)

This legendary green bean snack recipe is perfect for accompanying your holiday in hot weather. With a sweet and slightly savory taste, green bean ice is very easy to make. The ingredients and how to make it are as follows:

Ingredients:

250 grams of green beans

150 grams of sugar

50 ml of condensed milk

5 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in half a glass of water

1 teaspoon of vanilla powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

Sufficient water

How to Make:

- Wash and soak the green beans for approximately 2 to 3 hours until the beans slightly expand.

- Then boil the green beans until completely cooked and soft.

- Then add sugar, condensed milk, salt, and vanilla powder. Stir well. (If the water reduces during the boiling process, you can add it as needed.

- Next, add the dissolved cornstarch. Cook again until boiling and the water thickens.

- Remove and let it cool. Once cooled, blend the green beans gently. Leave a few spoonfuls of whole green beans. Then mix it back with the mashed green beans. The aim is to add texture so that there are green bean grains.

- After that, put the green beans into ice lollipop molds or Mambo ice plastic.

- Put it in the refrigerator until the green bean ice freezes. Finished, the green bean ice is ready to be served.

3. Green Bean Cake

Green Bean Cake (credit: Pixabay)

The recipe for a green bean snack that can accompany your weekend is green bean cake. If you are bored with the usual cake preparations, you must try this recipe at home. The ingredients and how to make it are as follows:

Ingredients:

50 grams of green beans, soaked

300 grams of margarine

200 grams of powdered sugar

7 egg yolks

5 egg whites

200 grams of flour

How to Make:

- Boil the green beans until cooked, then remove and drain.

- Mash the green beans, set aside.

- Beat the margarine and powdered sugar until smooth, add the egg yolks, beat until well mixed.

- Beat the egg whites until thick and stiff, then add the flour. Stir until well mixed.

- Then mix the egg yolk mixture and the egg white mixture and beat until well mixed.

- Next, add the mashed green beans, then stir well.

- Prepare a baking pan that has been greased with margarine, then pour the batter into it.

- Bake the cake for about 45 minutes or until cooked, then remove from the oven.

- Take out of the baking pan and the green bean cake is ready to be enjoyed.

4. Dorayaki with Green Bean Filling

Dorayaki (credit: Pixabay)

This snack, loved by Doraemon, can be made with the addition of green bean filling. Its soft texture, combined with the sweetness of the green bean, makes it a perfect snack to accompany your weekend. Making it is not difficult, the ingredients you need are:

Skin Ingredients:

2 eggs

100 grams of granulated sugar

120 grams of medium protein flour

2 tablespoons of cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

75 ml of liquid milk

50 grams of margarine, melted

Filling Ingredients:

50 grams of peeled green beans, soaked for one hour

50 grams of granulated sugar

100 ml of coconut milk from 1/2 coconut

1 pandan leaf, tied in a knot

1/2 teaspoon of salt

How to Make:

- Prepare a frying pan and add a little oil, then add the green beans, granulated sugar, coconut milk, pandan leaf, and salt. Stir until it forms a dough, set aside.

- Beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy using a mixer.

- Add the flour, cornstarch, and baking powder while sifting.

- Beat all the ingredients together at low speed. Then add the liquid milk and melted margarine, mix well.

- Heat the dorayaki mold, grease it with butter, then pour in the batter. Let it cook halfway.

- Put the green beans in it and cover with the batter.

- Flip it over and cook until evenly cooked.

- Remove and serve dorayaki with green bean filling.

5. Onde-onde

Onde-onde (credit: instagram.com/my.appetite)

The last green bean snack recipe is Onde-onde. If we talk about green beans, it's incomplete if we don't mention Onde-onde. This round-shaped and sweet-tasting food can be made at home. The ingredients you need are:

Skin Ingredients:

250 grams of glutinous rice flour

50 grams of steamed potatoes, mashed

50 grams of granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

175 ml of warm water

Enough water, for coating

Enough sesame seeds, for coating

Enough cooking oil, for frying

Filling Ingredients:

100 grams of peeled green beans, soaked for 1 hour

150 ml of coconut milk

50 grams of granulated sugar

1 pandan leaf, tied

1/2 teaspoon of salt

How to Make the Filling:

- Steam the green beans for 20 minutes, then remove from heat.

- Blend the green beans together with coconut milk, granulated sugar, and salt.

- After it becomes smooth, pour the blended mixture into a pan. Turn on the heat and cook while stirring until it thickens. Then, when it's ready, you can remove it and let it cool.

- After it cools down, shape the dough into balls according to your preference, set aside.

How to Make Onde-onde:

- Mix glutinous rice flour, mashed potatoes, granulated sugar, and salt until well combined.

- Gradually pour in warm water while kneading the dough until it can be shaped.

- Prepare sesame seeds and water in 2 separate bowls and set aside.

- Take 1 tablespoon of the dough and flatten it. Then, place 1 ball of green bean filling on top.

- Close and shape the dough, quickly dip the onde-onde in water, then roll it in sesame seeds until the surface is evenly coated.

- Heat the cooking oil, fry the onde-onde over low heat while stirring until it turns golden brown.

- Remove and drain. Onde-onde cakes ready to be served.

Those are 5 recipes of mung bean dishes that can accompany your weekend and make it enjoyable. Not only delicious, this snack is also healthy and easy to make. Enjoy trying it.

(kpl/dhm)