Freeze the mung beans before cooking

Mung beans can be frozen. When freezing, they will be frozen into ice cubes if placed in the freezer. The nutrients in them will not be lost. This is also a way of preservation. When buying mung beans, it is best to choose mung beans produced in the same year, so that the mung beans are fresher. In addition, you should also pay attention to maintaining the strength to prevent mold and deterioration, and to avoid the mung beans from being infested with insects.

Frozen green beans before cooking

Soak the mung beans and then freeze them. Soak the mung beans in water for about 10 minutes, drain the water, put them in the freezer and freeze them into ice cubes. After being soaked, mung beans absorb water. Based on the principle that water expands in volume when it freezes, the mung beans are frozen and cracked. The cracked mung beans will expand when exposed to hot water, so they can be cooked into flowers quickly. It's just a simple physical change, the nutrients will not be lost.

Quick Cooked Green Beans:

① Before cooking porridge, put the mung beans in a wok and stir-fry for one to two minutes, then put them in the pot and cook them quickly.

②After the porridge is boiled, add cold water to the porridge. After the mung beans are stimulated by the cold water, they will bloom easily and can be boiled quickly.

③Wash the mung beans and soak them in boiling water for 10 minutes. After cooling, put the mung beans into the freezer of the refrigerator, freeze them for 4 hours, take them out and cook them again, the mung beans will become soft and tender soon.

How to choose mung beans

1. Determine whether the mung beans are fresh. When choosing mung beans, be sure to choose those that are not moldy, insect-infested, or spoiled. Fresh mung beans should be bright green, while old mung beans will turn yellow.

2. Determine whether mung beans are contaminated. To see whether mung beans are contaminated, one is to see whether the mung beans are shriveled and wrinkled, and the other is to see whether the mung beans have a pungent chemical smell.

3. Mung beans that are uniform in size and free of impurities and worm holes are high-quality mung beans; low-quality mung beans contain a lot of impurities such as sand and gravel, and most of them have high water content and are easily affected by moisture and mold. You can feel the dampness by putting your hand into the mung bean bag.

If you want to drink mung bean soup right after buying mung beans, and there is no time to freeze the mung beans, we can put the washed mung beans directly into the pot and stir-fry them. After the water is dried up, add cold water directly into the pot. When hot mung beans meet cold water, the mung bean skin breaks faster. After the water boils, cook the mung beans for a few more minutes until they bloom.