The total cooking time for mung bean is 45 minutes. Before cooking, pour mung beans into a sieve and rinse under running water, put in a saucepan with boiling water in a ratio of 1 cup of cereal: 2,5 cups of boiling water, bring water to a boil, cook for 30 minutes over low heat. Salt the mung bean 10 minutes before the end of cooking to prevent the beans from becoming tough. You can add some sunflower oil.
How to cook mung bean
You will need – 1 glass of mung bean, 2,5 glasses of water
1. Measure out 1 cup of mung bean.
2. Put mung bean into a bowl.
3. Rinse with cold water.
4. Pour 2,5 cups of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil.
5. Put the cereal into the water.
6. After 20 minutes salt the mung bean.
7. Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil into a saucepan.
8. Cook the mung bean for another 10 minutes: almost all water should be absorbed into the mung bean.
9. Put mung bean in a colander to drain excess liquid.
10. Put the mung bean on a plate and serve, your mung is ready!
How to cook kichari
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Mash – half a glass
Rice – 1 glass
Cauliflower – several inflorescences about 100 grams
Tomato – 1 small
Carrots – 1 small or half large
Ghee butter – 2 tablespoons
Ginger – half a tablespoon
Cumin – a tablespoon
Cumin – 1 tablespoon
Turmeric – a teaspoon
Coriander – a teaspoon
Asafoetida – a pinch.
Cooking kichari
Rinse mung bean, cook for 10 minutes, then add vegetables, after another 10 minutes – washed rice, cook for 20 minutes. Heat a frying pan a little, pour ghee on the bottom. While the oil has not boiled, add cumin, coriander, turmeric and asafoetida to it. Add all the spices and salt to the pan, mix well. Simmer for another 7 minutes.
The amount of water for making kichari is 10 glasses.
Quite rare spices and oils for making kichari can be found in Indian food stores.
Soup with wave
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on a saucepan of 2,5 liters
Green mash – 300 grams
Minced meat – 400 grams
Potato – 4 pieces
Onion – 1 onion
Carrots – 1 piece
Garlic – 3 cloves
Greens – 1 bunch
Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons
Salt and pepper to taste
Water – 1,5 liters
How to make mash and minced meat soup
1. Pour 150 grams of mung bean into a saucepan, rinse.
2. Pour in 1,5 liters of water and put on fire.
3. After boiling water mark 30 minutes: cook over low heat, add salt 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time.
4. Wash and peel potatoes, onions, carrots and garlic. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.
5. Grate carrots, finely chop onion and garlic.
6. Pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan, add onion and garlic, fry until golden brown.
7. Then add the grated carrots and fry for another 5 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly.
8. Add minced meat to frying, mix everything and fry for another 7 minutes; Add salt and pepper to taste.
9. After 30 minutes of boiling, add the fry and chopped potatoes to the pot.
10. Stir the soup, let it boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
11. Wash greens, dry and chop finely.
Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
Facts about masha
Mung bean is a leguminous crop originating in India. It is eaten whole (with green husks) or shelled (then the color of the mung bean is light, as in our picture). Very common in China.
People often ask whether it is necessary to soak mung bean. The mung bean should not be soaked. Although the cereal belongs to beans, it is very tender and begins to boil after half an hour of cooking. Even if you need porridge, it is enough to cook cereals without soaking, just increase the cooking time to 40 minutes.
When cooking mung bean increases by 2 times.
The calorie content of mung bean is 312 kcal / 100 grams.
Mash is also called “golden beans” or “mung beans” or “mung dal” (“mung dhal”).