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Mung bean cake (green bean cake) is one of the famous specialty of Hai Duong, a small province in the north of Vietnam. Every time people have the opportunity to visit Hai Duong, they correctly choose a few boxes of mung bean cakes to bring back as gifts. Of all the kinds of cake to taste with a cup of hot tea, mung bean cake is the best. The way to make the Hai Duong mung bean cake is not complicated. With the mung bean cake recipe by using an electric rice cooker, which we will introduce below, you can treat your whole family with delicious, nutritious mung bean cakes.

This way of making mung bean cakes also allow you to adjust the amount of sugar to match your own taste. By doing so, you will have the amazingly delicious cakes that are not as sweet as those bought outside.

Ingredients for Vietnamese green bean cake recipe:

• 500 gr whole green beans.
• 150 ml of vegetable oil.
• 100 gr of white sugar.
• Molds for green bean cake.
• A little salt
• A little vanilla
• Water

Instructions for making mung bean cake recipe:

Step 1:

In the first step, put the green beans in warm water for about 15 minutes, and clean their pods. You should do this stage carefully to make a soft green bean cake later.

Then, pour green beans into an electric rice cooker, and add water. The level of water should be a little more than cooking rice. Cook until beans are tender.

The first step of making a delicious green bean cake is to clean the pods and place it in an electric rice cooker to steam.

Step 2

After that, pour the beans into a bowl, use a spoon to grind them pureed and smooth. Otherwise, you can put them into a mortar and use the pestle to grind. Then use a sieve, rub it back and forth 2-3 times to make sure the beans are pureed and smooth without any nut. It is an essential factor to have a delicious cake.

Put the beans into a bowl and mill them.

Step 3

Now, place the beans in a non-stick pan, add cooking oil, and stir well to make the beans soft and smooth. Then, add sugar, and mix well for 3 minutes before turning off the heat.

Put green beans on the non-stick pan, stir for 3 minutes, and turn off the heat.

Step 4:

Finally, you pour green beans into the mold, place in the refrigerator. After freezing, you can taste the cake.

With only about 50 - 60 minutes, you have a delicious green bean cake like Hai Duong specialties. Moreover, your homemade green bean cake usually tastes just right, not too sweet like those sold in the bakery.

When eating, you can feel the sweetness of the sugar, the aroma of the green bean cake. After biting a piece of cake, green beans gradually dissolve in your mouth. Then, taking a sip of hot tea, you will find it extremely interesting. Moreover, the mung bean cake recipe with using an electric rice cooker at home, you will find it much more economical. Therefore, you can make more and send out your homemade green bean cake as gifts.