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Fruity Mung Bean Dessert in Thai, Luuk Chuup

 

 

ลูกชุบ

 

 

Prepare:

 

1 cup mung bean (500g)

2 and 1/2 cup sugar

1 and 1/2 cup thick coconut milk

 

 

Gelatin:

 

2 tbsp. gelatin powder

2 cups water

1/4 cup sugar

Food coloring

 

 

 

Cooking Instructions:

 

 

1. Leave mung bean in the water for 3 hours. Then, steam for 20 minutes.

 

 

2. Ground the mung bean very well. Mix it well with sugar and coconut milk in the pot.

 

 

3. Put the pot on the stove and heat it will medium heat. Stir until the mix gets dry. Make sure you can mold it.

 

 

4. Leave it cool.

 

 

5. Now, it’s a fun part and you need your artistic heart. Mold it into a fruit shape, cherry, mango, red chili pepper, banana, orange, watermelon for example.

 

 

6. Use food coloring to color them. Make it as real as possible. Put a stick to the fruit shape and put it on a piece of Styrofoam. Then, leave it dry.

 

 

 

7. Next, dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Add 1/4 cup sugar. Wait until it is boiling, dip the fruit shape into it and leave it dry on the Styrofoam again.

 

 

8. Dip the fruits again for 3 times. Then decorate it with leaves to make it look real.

 

This is another fun Thai dessert recipes I love to make. It takes time to get the shapes and colors perfect. However, it is a fun activity to try. When I first present this food to my husband, he scared that I would give him a fake food, as it looks really like a toy or something you made as souvenir more than something to eat.

 

Hope you get some fun! Have your kids help!

 

 

 

 

 

Joy …..\(^v^)/

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ขนมเข่งไส้เค็ม (Khanom Keng Sai Kem)

ขนมเข่งไส้เค็ม
Khanom Keng Sai Kem

Prepare:

2 cup sticky rice flour

1 and 2/3 cup sugar

3 cup water

 

 

 

Stuffing:

1 cup mashed mung bean (genus Phaseoias)

1/3 cup minced pork

2 tbsp. minced coriander roots

1 tbsp. pepper

1 and 1/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp. salt

3 tbsp. vegetable oil

1 cup vegetable oil to spread on banana leaves

 

 

Cooking Instructions:

 

 

 

1. Soak mung bean in the water for 30 minutes.

 

 

2. Place a white cloth filter in the steam pot. Put soaked mung bean on it and steam the mung

bean for 20 minutes.

 

 

3. Ground the bean finely.

 

 

4. Ground coriander roots and pepper altogether.

 

 

 

5. Add vegetable oil in the pan and stir-fry the mixed in number 4 until it smells aromatic.

 

 

6. Next, add pork and cook for 10 minutes. Then, add grounded mung bean, sugar and salt. Mix well.

 

 

7. Mold it to 1 inch ball.

 

 

8. In a bowl mix the flour with sugar. Add water little by little as you knead it.

 

 

9. Leave the dough for 30 minutes. Then, mold it into 1 inch flat round shape, put stuff in the middle and mold it to a round ball.

 

 

10. Make a cup from banana leave. Dress vegetable oil all over the cup. Then, place a ball inside it.

 

 

 

11. Steam for 45 minutes and remove from the stove.

We have two kinds of Khanom Keng. One with stuffing, we call it Sai Kem (salted stuffing) and another without stuffing. If you don’t like the stuffing, you can jump to number 8, 10 and

 

12. Skip all the stuffing instructions.

 

 

 

I like salted stuffing better. It made the sticky texture taste better with salty mung bean. In the early morning when I was at home, my mom usually woke me up to go offer this dessert to the monks. We prepare about 9 pieces every time. If that day 5 monks came, the rest of them would go into my stomach.

 

 

 

Here is what my mom always told me to do when we offer food to the monks:

 

 

1. I shouldn’t have a messy face in the morning and dress properly. It would cause an ugly face in the next life. Since I was never ready when they went out to offer food, this rule is only for me I guess.

 

 

2. Take off your shoes and sit down before you offer the food.

 

 

3. Move the food to your forehead and make a wish. (Usually, we asked for forgiveness from people if our bad actions ever caused them suffers and we prayed that the food would go to our pass away grandparents through the monks.)

 

 

4. Don’t let any part of your hand touch their bowl when you drop the food into it. Girls can’t touch their clothes.

 

 

5. When you finish, sit down still and wait for blessing.

 

 

 

 

 

Joy … \(^v^)/

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