Green bean barley dessert

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Angeline

green bean barley dessert

After making the green bean (mung beans) cooling drink, there is no need to discard the beans and pandan leaves. Instead, you can transfer them to another pot and cook them together with Chinese barley to make a yummy Chinese dessert. 🙂

Made this dessert soup because we ran out of breakfast foods on Saturday morning and it was pouring so I rummaged through the fridge and decided to work with what I had. Anyway, who says you can’t eat a dessert for breakfast? 😛

Here’s the recipe if you’re cooking the dessert without having made the ‘cooling’ drink:

 

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Ingredients
  • ⅓ bowl mung beans
  • 1-2 handfuls Chinese barley (sheng shou yi mi) - about 60-120g
  • 4 pandan leaves
  • rock sugar to taste
  • 1.6L water
Instructions
  1. Wash the pandan leaves and trim off any brownish edges. Tie the pandan leaves into a knot.
  2. Wash the mung beans and barley thoroughly.
  3. Place the pandan leaves, mung beans and barley into a pot of water and bring it to a boil.
  4. Simmer for about an hour (remove the pandan leaves after half an hour) and add rock sugar to taste at the end of the cooking process. (The green beans should have split and the barley should be soft and fluffy)
  5. Dish and serve. Can be served hot or cold.

 

 
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Green bean drink (Mung bean)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Angeline

The humble mung beans

Mung beans, more commonly known as green beans here in Singapore, are a rich source of nutrients. They are low in calories, sodium and fat, and exhibit powerful antioxidant properties that fight disease and protect your body. Mung beans also contain vitamins A, Bs, C, D, E, K, folic acid, potassium, magnesium and zinc! (Source)

Mung beans have ‘cooling’ properties, provided they are not cooked till they split. After they are well-cooked (i.e. like in green bean barley dessert), they lose the ‘cooling’ properties and become ‘neutral’.

This green bean drink is supposedly even more ‘cooling’ than barley water so if you’re running short of time and would like to make a ‘cooling’ drink to relieve heatiness, give this a try.

After sieving out the green beans and pandan leaves, you can re-use the mung beans to make green bean barley dessert (if you prefer just green bean soup, omit the barley).

green bean drink

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Green bean drink (Mung bean)
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Ingredients
  • ⅓ bowl mung beans (about 120g)
  • 1.5L water
  • 4 pandan leaves
  • rock sugar to taste
Instructions
  1. Wash the pandan leaves and trim off any brownish edges. Tie the pandan leaves into a knot.
  2. Wash the mung beans thoroughly.
  3. Place the pandan leaves and mung beans into a pot.
  4. Bring to a boil then simmer for 5-6min.
  5. Sieve out the mung beans and pandan leaves.
  6. Add rock sugar to taste.
  7. Serve.

 

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