Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Ongol-ongol is a snack from West Java. The chief ingredients of this soft, slightly jiggly cake are tapioca starch and palm sugar. This version is slightly different in that I used hunkwe (mung bean flour) instead of tapioca starch. I think this version is as good as the original, especially if you like desserts and snacks made with hunkwe.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut) using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut):
- Make ready 100 g hun kwe (mung bean flour)
- Make ready 200 g palm / brown sugar
- Take 750 ml water
- Prepare Vanilla essence
- Get Grated coconut for toppings
Instead of using tapioca flour, I use mung bean flour. I even made the flour myself by grinding the peeled split mung beans in the spice grinder. You can sprout, cook, or ground them to make flour. In some Asian countries, like in Thailand we make it into a paste, sweeten it, and use it as a filling in pastries or make a cake.
Steps to make Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut):
- Steam the coconut for approx 10 mins and add a little salt once it's steamed, then set aside
- Place a pot on the stove with medium heat, pour 500ml water and sugar, and cook until the sugar dissolved. Don't forget to add the vanilla essence
- Use the remaining 250ml water to dilute hun kwe in a cup before adding it to the pot
- Keep stirring the mixture until the texture is thickened and colour becomes transparent, almost similar to a glue
- Once it's thickened and boiled, remove from the stove and transfer the mixture to go glass container and add the grated coconut on the top
- You can also roll a spoon sized of the mixture directly into the grated coconut, do it until all the mixture is finished
- Let it cool down before serving. Enjoy!
You can sprout, cook, or ground them to make flour. In some Asian countries, like in Thailand we make it into a paste, sweeten it, and use it as a filling in pastries or make a cake. Main ingredients includes tapioca flour, rice flour, coconut milk, mung beans, and pandan leaves. This Steamed Rice Cake has green color layers of pandan leaves alternating with the yellow color layers of mung bean paste. The Best White Bean Cake Recipes on Yummly
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