Mung Bean Dumplings (Banh Khuc)

(Bánh Khúc) - There are many types of sticky rice, each of them own special tastes, it is delicious and very attractive. Besides, Mung Bean Dumplings is absolutely attractive and popular, Vietnamese also use this dish in the morning as breakfast, it is also sold by vendors on the pavement, or in dessert restaurants.
Mung Bean Dumplings - Banh Khuc

Ingredients

- Pork (bacon): 100gr
- Peeled green beans: 100-150gr
- Sticky rice: 250-300gr
- 200gr of khuc leaves
- Pepper, maggi’s stuff, spices, fish sauce
- Glutinous flour: 250gr

Process

- Glutinous rice soaked 6-7 hours in advance. Then washed, drained and soak with salt or maggi’s stuff.
- Mung beans soaking about 1-2 hours to hatch washed, steamed, when they are still hot, take out and crush them out. Then mix a little spice to mung bean part.
Mung Bean Dumplings - Banh Khuc
- Sliced ​​pork in small thick, marinated with a little fish sauce and pepper.  Fried pork until cooked.
- Khuc Leaves washed, add them into the blender with little water and grind to become a powder consistency. Do not put too much water on grounding. Add Khuc leaves ground into with glutinous flour, knead them well. At this time, control the powder wet, if more water on Khuc leaves, add the more sticky rice, add more flour if too wet. The mixture is not too dry not too wet, just enough to not sticky.
 Mung Bean Dumplings - Banh Khuc
- Make green beans with pork into round balls to moderate. Make into 7 parts.
- Divide the sticky dough into the corresponding section (7), press it into quite thin to wrap outside the mung beans.
 Mung Bean Dumplings - Banh Khuc
- Put the cakes on top and sprinkle with alternating sticky rice cakes to the cake does not stick together.
- Steamed cake for about 30 minutes is cooked, it is ok when check that the sticky rice is soft.
 Mung Bean Dumplings - Banh Khuc
You can feel not only its soft, good-smelling, greasy taste in this popular breakfast. Mung Bean Dumplings is better when be covered in Banana leaf. Besides, you can add roasted sesame if you like on the surface of this cake.

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