Do you like to eat desserts after meals? For me, there is no specific time to eat desserts after eating. But for us, the people of Indonesian villages, we prefer to eat this type of dessert meal when relaxing. For example in the afternoon, before entering dinner time.
Most days where I live are sunny and hot. So, we often make desserts that are served cold as a snack. One of them is jelly pudding.
This time I will share the mung bean porridge pudding recipe. A combination of mung beans with coconut milk and vegan jelly served cold. Refreshing, and also healthy for digestion.
Well, to make this pudding, you need a lot of patience and time. That's because we need to soak the mung beans for at least 3 hours, then boil the soaked mung beans and make the mung beans mush before finally making them into pudding.
This recipe is actually inspired by leftover mung bean porridge. Mung bean porridge is a type of porridge that is popular in Indonesia. We also make them a lot, and there are occasional leftovers. So, I made leftover mung bean porridge as pudding. So, no food is wasted for that.
Making Boiled Mung Beans
The thing that must be considered is that there are several steps that must be repeated in boiling mung beans. We have to be patient doing that. This is to get the soft texture of mung beans.
If you fail to boil mung beans with the correct technique, it will make the mung beans taste rock hard to eat and will be very annoying. In fact, several times I have eaten mung beans with a texture like that when I bought them from street food vendors.
I learned the technique of boiling mung beans from my late mom. A knowledge that I will always remember because it is very useful for my life.
Ingredients needed:
- 250 grams of mung beans
- 1000 ml of water for boiling mung beans
Cooking Instructions
First, we need to soak the mung beans for at least 3 hours before we boil them. The shape of the mung beans will be bigger than their original size after we soak them.
Then, prepare a pot for boiling, using the lid. We must use a lid for the technique of boiling mung beans. Bring the water to a boil.
Put the beans into the boiling water. Then, cover the pot. Boil the mung beans for 5 minutes. After that, immediately turn off the heat and let them sit for 30 minutes with the pot still closed.
After letting it sit for 30 minutes, turn the heat back on, and cook for another 5 minutes.
Then, turn off the heat again and let it sit for 30 minutes. Only after this are the mung beans ready to be processed into porridge.
Mung Beans Porridge
Ingredients needed:
- boiled mung beans
- 100 ml of coconut milk
- 100 ml of water
- 150 grams of brown sugar
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- a tumble-size flattened ginger (optional)
- pandan leaves (optional)
Cooking Instructions
Cook chopped brown sugar, and sugar with 100 ml water, also ginger, salt, and pandan leaves. Cook until the brown sugar melts completely.
Then, add coconut milk. Bring them to a simmer while continuing to stir.
Add boiled mung beans. Bring them to a simmer then, remove them. Furthermore, mung bean porridge is ready to be processed into pudding.
FUN FACTS
Mung bean porridge is ready to be served. If you don't want to make pudding, then just serve them as mung bean porridge. It must be delicious. Creamy, sweet, and savory porridge. Perfect for cold days, or just to accompany your chill time.
Mung Bean Porridge Pudding
This pudding recipe uses two layers for a more interesting look. So, for the base layer, I used coconut milk pudding.
Ingredients needed:
- mung bean porridge
- 2 sachets of agar powder, each sachet for about 5-7 grams of agar powder. Or, 1 teaspoon agar powder per sachet.
- 1/2 cup of sugar for coconut milk pudding
- 800 ml of coconut milk for coconut milk pudding
- pandan leaves
Cooking Instructions
First, make coconut milk pudding. How to make coconut milk pudding is quite easy. We only need to stir all the coconut milk pudding ingredients. Mix coconut milk, sugar, and agar powder. Mix them well, then bring them to a boil while still stirring.
When the fire has been turned off, keep stirring the pudding mixture to remove the hot steam. After a while, then the coconut milk pudding mixture is poured into the pudding mold as the base layer.
After transferring the coconut milk pudding mixture into a mold, then make mung bean porridge pudding. The thing to watch out for is to fill only half of the mold to leave room for one layer of pudding later.
Mix the mung bean porridge and agar powder. Mix them well, then start to start a fire. Keep stirring them until they boil.
Add mung bean porridge pudding mixture into mold, on top of the coconut milk pudding layer. Do it slowly so the base before is not broken.
Store them in the refrigerator for at least two hours before serving. Remove from the mold, and serve them with the pieces according to your taste.
This pudding is a favorite of the children here. Sweet and soft, but not overly sweet. Add extra fresh fruit for an extra cold refreshing meal for super hot weather. Want to spoon this delicious pudding? :)
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Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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