Mung beans: 400g

Rock sugar powder: 70g.

Butter or lard: 80g

Salt: a little.

Water: 800g

method of work

1, mung beans were washed and soaked in water for 4 hours, and the water absorption of mung beans was 70% to 80%. After soaking 12 hours, mung beans will be soaked 100%. I used 400 grams of mung beans, and after soaking 12 hours, mung beans reached 930 grams after soaking. I used to soak my hair 12 hours.

2. Put water into the main pot, put mung beans into the net pot, steam for 40 minutes /V/ speed 1, remove the measuring cup cover twice in the middle, and stir with chopsticks, so that it is cooked evenly.

3. Steamed mung beans are full and not broken, and can be crushed by hand.

4. Put half of the steamed mung beans into the main pot, add half of sugar, oil and salt, and it is best to add a scraper to assist in stirring. Set 10 second/speed 10 grinding. If you want to be more delicate, you can set 10 second grinding again.

5, pour out, then hit the other half, and also add the sugar, oil and salt of the other half.

6. After cooling, put it into the mold and flatten it.

Mei shan pin da mung bean paste

Boil mung beans to get a cup of thick mung bean juice with some sugar, which is very delicious.

Mung bean cake without peeling

Tips:

1, I used this formula for 400 grams of mung beans, and the beans after soaking were about 930 grams. One mung bean cake was made of 40 grams, and 27 pieces were made, and the dry humidity was just right.

2. When the finished mung bean cake is finished as soon as possible, it will be freshly made without additives. Don't freeze it, just refrigerate it.

3. I only made the original colors, and I can try various colors, but the mung bean cake is cold. If you don't give it away, you can make less. Mung bean has a very strong detoxification function, and it is also a good food to relieve summer heat. The powerful function of Meishanpin can be done as much as you want. If you want to eat mung bean cake, you can reduce it according to the formula. If you add red bean paste stuffing, or feel the yolk collocation may be better, people with cold spleen and stomach should try to eat less pure mung bean cake.

Learn to make mung bean cakes, and we must always know why we eat mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Why do you want to eat mung bean cake on Dragon Boat Festival?

Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that medicine and food are of the same origin. Mung bean has the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Mung bean cake made of mung bean powder has always been a traditional early summer food in China.

According to the analysis of the 24 solar terms in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the Dragon Boat Festival is the season when the yang is the most abundant all year round. In the hot summer, people's mood fluctuates greatly, and they are easy to be agitated and worried. At this time, something is especially needed to alleviate this situation. Of course, there are iced drinks and ice cream now, and mung beans were the main ones at that time.

The mung bean is sweet and cool in nature, and has the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials. The mung bean cake is also soft in taste. When eaten at this time, it can greatly alleviate the negative effects caused by excessive yang, and can effectively resolve the melancholy mood. Coupled with the homonym of "Gao" and "Gao", it has the meaning of being active and successful in my official career. Together with the Zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival, it has the meaning of "high school", which is a good wish for students preparing for the exam. Therefore, eating mung bean cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival has been handed down from generation to generation.

For example, in Wuhan, Nanjing and Wuhu, you will definitely eat mung bean cakes on this day. People in Xi 'an also eat zongzi on this day, but it is indispensable to eat it with mung bean cake. People in Xi 'an give gifts to relatives and friends on the Dragon Boat Festival, and they also give zongzi and mung bean cake together, which goes hand in hand. This is a custom with a long history.

What does it mean to eat mung bean cake on Dragon Boat Festival?

I remember when I was a child, when my parents went to work, the unit would always come to a pot of mung bean soup to cool down the workers. The fiery heat in summer made the boiled mung bean soup cool down. This has produced a poetic saying-mung beans cook in summer. Eating mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival, first, borrowed the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials from mung beans, and second, because of the legend, in memory of Wu Zixu.

The word "Gao" in mung bean cake is homophone, and the word "Gao" is generally a symbol of good, positive and upward, so it is a good wish for everyone, especially for the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination in June every year. It is also said that eating mung bean cake before the summer solstice can prevent some diseases brought in summer, which will be good for the body, and mung beans themselves have high nutritional value, so they are the first choice for gifts during the Dragon Boat Festival.