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Why do you want to eat mung bean cake on Dragon Boat Festival? It is not only healthy but also meaningful.
Why do you want to eat mung bean cake on Dragon Boat Festival?

1, health and health care

According to the analysis of the 24 solar terms, the Dragon Boat Festival is the season with the highest yang in a year. At this time, people's mood fluctuates greatly, and they are easily excited and worried. Besides, it's summer and the temperature is getting higher and higher. At this time, something is especially needed to alleviate this situation. Mung bean itself has high nutritional value, sweet and cool taste, and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Mung bean cake is also soft in taste, which is very suitable for eating at this time. It can greatly alleviate the negative effects caused by excessive yang and effectively resolve the melancholy mood. It is a good summer snack.

2. Sorry

"Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, which means being active and successful in my official career. Together with Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, they have the meaning of "high school" and are another good wish of students preparing for the exam. Therefore, eating mung bean cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival has been passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, mung bean cake is also a good choice for Dragon Boat Festival gifts.

How to make mung bean cake?

Mung bean cake is a cake made of cooked food. Traditionally, mung beans are cooked first, then dried, peeled and ground into mature mung bean powder, and then sugar powder and sesame oil are added to the mold for molding. The mung bean cake made of pure mung bean powder is dark in color and slightly fishy in taste. Yellow is a beautiful color, probably with pigment. In order to diversify the taste of mung bean cakes, food manufacturers added different fillings, so mung bean cakes with different tastes appeared in the market. Because mung bean powder is steamed, and mung bean itself is cold, it will not get angry if eaten too much, so it is very suitable for eating in hot summer.

Ingredients: raw mung bean powder, sugar, salad oil, osmanthus fragrans, honey and water (added as required)

Exercise:

1, prepare the main ingredient mung bean powder.

2. Steam the mung bean powder in a steamer for 25 minutes.

3. Steamed mung bean powder will agglomerate and need to be broken up.

4. Sift the steamed mung bean powder.

5, add osmanthus, honey, sugar, salad oil, water should be added as appropriate.

6. stir.

7. pinch the block.

8. Group into balls of appropriate size.

9. Fill the mold with mung bean powder.

10, compaction and demoulding.

skill

Eating mung bean cake is good and meaningful, but try not to eat too much mung bean cake, not more than 4 pieces a day. The mung bean cakes we usually eat are high in calories, and some of them have high oil content. Eating too much will make you fat, which is not good for cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases, so eat less and drink more water after eating mung bean cake.