Monday 7 September 2015

Homemade Low-Sugar Mung Bean Paste 自制低糖绿豆蓉 (中英食谱教程)



This is my first time making homemade bean paste and I am glad that I am in control of the sugar level and have made these low sugar version. Mung bean paste can be used for making many types of desserts like Jin Deui (a type of fried Chinese pastry made from glutinous rice flour, coated with sesame seeds on the outside and is crisp and chewy), Ang Ku Kueh (a small round or oval shaped Chinese pastry with soft stickyglutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling in the centre),
 mooncakes etc. 
这是我第一次试做豆蓉,自己做的不但健康还可以控制糖份。绿豆蓉可以用来制作不同的甜点如煎堆/芝麻球一种油炸的甜点,用糯米粉制成,外层沾了芝麻,咬下去酥脆又有嚼劲)红龟粿,月饼等等。

I have used the low-sugar mung bean paste to make a batch of watermelon-shaped pastry mooncakes (
as seen below) using all natural ingredients and no artificial colourings or baking chemicals at all. Isn't it cute? 
我用了自制的低糖绿豆蓉,做了以下的西瓜造型月饼,用的是全天然材料,无人工色素或化学,可爱吗?




Homemade Low-Sugar Mung Bean Paste
自制低糖绿豆蓉 
(中文食谱取之‘这里’,english recipe translated by bakingtaitai)



Ingredients: (makes 1.56kg of mung bean paste) 
500g split mung (green) beans 
180g sugar (this is super low sugar, please increase amount if you prefer slightly sweeter.) 
150ml cooking oil (I used sunflower oil) 
35g wheat starch  (also known as tim sum flour) 




食材:(可做1.56公斤绿豆蓉)
500克 绿豆绊
180克 细砂糖 (这
份量是超低糖的,如果喜欢甜一点可以增加多一些)
150毫升 食油 (我用葵花仔油)
35克 澄面 (也称为虾饺粉)




Method 做法:



1. Wash and soak mung beans overnight. 
1。绿豆绊洗净浸泡过夜




2. Discard the water soaked overnight and put mung beans into a pot with fresh water. Bring it to a boil over medium heat and cook for 10 minutes. Scoop up any bubbles/foam arising to the surface. Off the fire, cover for 10 minutes. 

2。倒掉浸过夜的水,绿豆放入锅中,另加新的清水,以中火煮滚10分钟,用汤勺舀起浮起的泡沫,熄火后加盖焗10 分钟。




3. Pour the mung beans into a strainer to strain out the water. 

3。绿豆倒入滤网过滤,滤掉水份。 




4. Use a blender to blend till paste form. 
4。用搅拌机搅碎成蓉。





5. Pour in half sugar and half oil into the wet paste, using low heat to stir/fry till paste is drier. Stirring continuously to melt the sugar and absorb the oil. Pour in the remaining sugar and oil and continue to stir till paste thickens like peanut butter form.
5。湿润的绿豆蓉,倒入一半糖及植物油,用小火炒至干身,其间要不停搅拌,让糖开溶解并慢慢吸收油份。再倒入另一半的糖及油,继续搅拌,收干水份的豆蓉会像花生酱般柔软浓稠。


6. Off the fire. Sift the wheat flour in and mix well. Store in the fridge after it has cooled down completely. (Can be stored in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days. If you want to keep it longer, you may store it in the freezer. Just transfer to thaw in the fridge the night before you need to use it.)   
6。熄火,筛入澄面,搅拌均匀。盛起放凉,放入雪柜备用。(在雪柜可存放4 – 5 天,如要长时间保存,可放进冷冻库,需要用前一晚,移到下层解冻即可。)





I have used the homemade low-sugar mung bean paste and added some black sesame seeds to it to make some pastry watermelon mooncakes which I will share the recipe in the next post, do look out for it! 
我用了自制的低糖绿豆蓉,加入了一些黑芝麻来做西瓜造型月饼。接下来,我将会分享西瓜造型月饼的食谱和做法,请留意哦!






Updated on 8 Sep 2015
Using this homemade low-sugar mung bean paste, I added some beet-root powder and made more healthy and all natural watermelon pastry mooncakes. Click 'here' for watermelon mooncake recipe.

今天又用全天然材料做西瓜造型月饼了。这次在自製的低糖綠豆蓉里加了些甜菜根粉,做了红西瓜。现在红黄西瓜都有了!
点击‘’看西瓜造型月饼。







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2 comments :

Kimmy said...

Hi Cheryl, your homemade paste looks so good. Love your watermelon mooncakes. Nice.

Baking Taitai said...

Thank you Kimmy!