Kuih Kasturi (Mung bean fritters), another Malaysian delight

Insomnia...that's what lead me into stumbling upon this recipe on my iPad...I have the habit of taking a screen shot of interesting recipes only to be ignoring them for a whole year! While looking through my photos, I thought I'd make this, especially so when Pravina gave me 500g of dried mung beans...Yay!

Ingredients:

250g                 Mung beans, soaked in water for 5 hours
50g                   Jaggary OR palm sugar (gula melaka) OR brown sugar
1/2 cup             desiccated coconut
2 + 1/2 cup       water (magnetised)
100g                 Rice flour
To taste            salt
1 cup                Light Olive Oil for frying



Method:

1. Boil mung beans in 2 cups water and season water with salt (after soaking for 5 hours). Halfway trough, add jaggary (diluted in 5 Tbsp water and filtered to remove any impurities) and desiccated coconut and stir well.

 

Desiccated coconut

Jaggary (diluted with water and filtered)

2. Once all the water has been absorbed, let it cool.
3. Add 1/2 cup water to rice flour and season with salt.

4. Heat 1 cup oil in a wok.
5. Roll mung beans into a ball and press down to form a patty.
6. Coat with rice flour batter and fry until golden brown.
7. I managed to get 15 medium sized patties with this recipe. I fried 6 pieces and froze the rest for when I have unexpected visitors... :P