Recipe: Yummy Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut)

Recipe: Yummy Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut). In a bowl, beat coconut milk and sugar until frothy. Add bean puree and mix thoroughly. Put mixture in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until mixture begins to thicken.

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.

Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut) There are many ways of making ongol-ongol, you can use sago flour, tapioca flour or mung bean flour (hun kwe) And this one is made of hun kwe, very simple and easy.

You can cook Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut) using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut)

1. You need 100 g of hun kwe (mung bean flour).

2. You need 200 g of palm / brown sugar.

3. It’s 750 ml of water.

4. It’s of Vanilla essence.

5. It’s of Grated coconut for toppings.

You only need: hunkwe flour (or use mung bean flour), water, coconut sugar, regular sugar, grated coconut and pinch of salt.

The dark brown color of ongol ongol comes from gula Jawa/coconut sugar/palm sugar.

I like gula Jawa because it really flavors up the food without being too sweet.

Mung Bean Cake with Grated Coconut's recipe is inspired by Kue Ongol Ongol's recipe.

Ongol-ongol (mung bean cake with coconut) step by step

1. Steam the coconut for approx 10 mins and add a little salt once its steamed, then set aside.

2. Place a pot on the stove with medium heat, pour 500ml water and sugar, and cook until the sugar dissolved. Dont forget to add the vanilla essence.

3. Use the remaining 250ml water to dilute hun kwe in a cup before adding it to the pot.

4. Keep stirring the mixture until the texture is thickened and colour becomes transparent, almost similar to a glue.

5. Once its thickened and boiled, remove from the stove and transfer the mixture to go glass container and add the grated coconut on the top.

6. You can also roll a spoon sized of the mixture directly into the grated coconut, do it until all the mixture is finished.

7. Let it cool down before serving. Enjoy!.

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.

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