Vietnamese Mung Bean Rice Dessert - Xoi Dau Xanh
Vietnamese Mung Bean Rice is a wonderful dessert that you can't pass up. It's a combination of sticky rice and bits of mung bean mixed together. When topped with a garnish of sugar, sesame seeds, and roasted peanuts that are crushed, it's a dessert that is filling and out of this world.
- Prep time
- 1 hr
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup of mung beans
- 2 cups of sticky rice
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
- 1 13.5 ounce can of coconut milk
- 4 pandan leaves
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds
- ¼ cup of roasted peanuts
Instructions
- 1
Soak the mung beans and sticky rice in separate bowls for at least an hour.
- 2
After an hour, drain the water and pat dry the mung beans and rice. Mix both ingredients together in a bowl with your hands.
- 3
In the pot for the rice cooker, add to the bottom the pandan leaves. Add overtop the mung bean and rice mixture.
- 4
In another bowl, mix together the can of coconut milk, vegetable oil, and salt. Mix together and pour over the mung bean and rice mixture.
- 5
Cook in rice cooker according to machine settings.
- 6
For the topping, use a processor or mortar/pestle to grind the sugar, sesame seeds, and peanuts.
- 7
Next, add the vegetable oil and sugar into the mung bean and sticky rice mixture.
- 8
Once the rice is done, put it on a serving plate and top with the sugar, sesame seed, and peanut garnish.