Vietnamese
Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup)
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Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the split mung beans and soak in water 30 minutes, then drain.
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Tie the pandan leaves into a loose knot.
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Bring the water to a boil with the pandan leaves, add the mung beans, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until soft and starting to break down, about 25 minutes.
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Stir in the sugar until dissolved.
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Remove the pandan leaves and stir in the coconut milk, warming through gently without letting it boil hard.
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Ladle into bowls and serve warm, or chill and serve cold on a hot afternoon.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup) carries coconut. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Dua Chua (Vietnamese Pickled Mustard Greens) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 370 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Carbs
- 47 g
- Fat
- 16 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 21 g
- Sodium
- 10 mg
- Saturated fat
- 14 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer and the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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