What is a matcha mooncake? This is probably a question that many housewives are really interested in. Matcha-flavored mooncakes are not only delicious, flexible, but also extremely strange and eye-catching with the green color from matcha powder that we often use in skin beauty recipes. In addition, matcha mooncakes you can completely make at home with a very simple recipe. Let Dry Agricultural Products introduce to you in detail 3 ways to make soft, supple matcha mooncakes at home with a super quick recipe.
How to make baked Matcha mooncakes
Preparation ingredients
- 200g peeled green beans
- 1kg white sugar
- 100g flour (dry powder)
- 300g flour
- 30g green tea powder
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- 2 egg yolks
- 30ml fresh milk without sugar
- 20ml lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Pure water
- Hot water
Step 1: Soak green beans
- Wash green beans 2-3 times under clean running water
- Using your hands, completely remove the damaged green beans, flat seeds, impurities, … in the bowl of green beans
- Soak green beans for 4-6 hours with warm water to soften the green beans
Step 2: Boil green beans
- After soaking the green beans, pick up the green beans, lightly shake the water until the green beans are drained
- Put green beans in a pot with 500ml of purified water + teaspoon of salt
- Proceed to cook green beans for 60 minutes on low heat
- While cooking the green beans, skim off the air bubbles floating on the green beans’ surface
- Put 3 tablespoons of white sugar in the pot of green beans
- Stir well with your hands to dissolve the sugar and prevent the green beans from burning, stoking on the bottom of the pot
Step 3: Puree green beans
- Cooked green beans, use a sieve to remove the green beans from the pot, let the green beans drain
- Put the green beans in the blender, proceed to puree the green beans for 10 minutes
Step 4: Green bean slug
- Put the pan on the stove and heat the pan
- Hot pan, pour the pureed green bean paste above into the slugs evenly with low heat to drain the green beans.
- Mix 15g of flour with 300ml of water. Stir until the powder is dissolved in the water
- Slowly pour the flour mixture into the green bean pan. While pouring, stir well to mix the green bean paste together
- Put 20g of matcha powder in a bowl with 20ml of boiling water. Stir until the matcha powder dissolves with the water
- Slowly pour the matcha powder mixture into the green bean pan. While pouring, stir well until the green bean paste turns light green and dry
- The filling is dry, the color is beautiful, you turn off the stove and pour the filling into a bowl and let the filling cool
Step 5: Make sugar water
- Put 200g of white sugar in a pot with 500ml of pure water
- Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water
- Put the sugar water mixture on the stove and boil for 20 minutes
- The sugar water boils, reduce the heat, continue to boil the sugar water with low heat for 5-7 minutes
- Pour 20ml of lemon juice into the pot of sugar water
- Hold the pot handle, shake gently on both sides for the lemon juice to dissolve with the sugar water
- Pour the sugar water mixture through a sieve, filter out dirt and impurities
- Finally, pour the sugar water into a bowl, let it cool
Step 6: Mix the dough
- Put in a bowl including: 285g flour + 1 teaspoon baking soda + 20g margarine + 40g cooking oil + 200g baking sugar + 30ml fresh milk
- Whisk all the ingredients until well combined for 10 minutes
- Knead and knead gently with your hands for 5-7 minutes to form a smooth, uniform, non-sticky dough.
- Wrap the food in cling film, let the dough rest for 30 minutes
Step 7: Wrap the cake
- Take the dough out, divide the dough into equal parts
- Use a rolling pin, roll it thin and flatten the dough into a circle
- Place the matcha filling in the center of the cake
- Using your hands, grasp the edges of the crust tightly to cover the filling
- Shape the dough into a circle
- Put the cake that has just been molded into the shaping mold
- Press firmly with your hand and hold for about 10 seconds to shape the cake
Step 8: Bake the cake
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Lightly brush a layer of cooking oil on the parchment paper
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes
- Neatly place each finished cake on top of stencils
- Put the cake tray into the oven, bake the cake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius
- Beat the egg yolk mixture in a bowl
- Take out the baking tray, lightly brush the egg yolk layer around the cake
- Put the cake in the oven, continue to bake the cake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius, the cake is completely cooked
- Take the cake out of the oven, let it cool, cut it into small pieces and enjoy
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How to make soft Matcha mooncakes
Preparation ingredients
- 320g glutinous rice flour
- 300g peeled green beans
- 20g cornstarch
- 50g green tea powder
- 10ml grapefruit flower essential oil
- 20ml lemon juice
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- Cooking oil
- Grain salt
- White sugar
Step 1: Make cake sugar water
- Put 200g of white sugar in a pot with 500ml of pure water
- Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water
- Put the sugar water mixture on the stove and boil for 20 minutes
- The sugar water boils, reduce the heat, continue to boil the sugar water with low heat for 5-7 minutes
- Pour 20ml of lemon juice into the pot of sugar water
- Hold the pot handle, shake gently on both sides for the lemon juice to dissolve with the sugar water
- Pour the sugar water mixture through a sieve, filter out dirt and impurities
- Finally, pour the sugar water into a bowl, let it cool
Step 2: Soak green beans
- Wash green beans 2-3 times under clean running water
- Using your hands, completely remove the damaged green beans, flat seeds, impurities, … in the bowl of green beans
- Soak green beans for 4-6 hours with warm water to soften the green beans
Step 3: Cook green beans
- After soaking the green beans, pick up the green beans, lightly shake the water until the green beans are drained
- Put green beans in a pot with 500ml of purified water + teaspoon of salt
- Proceed to cook green beans for 60 minutes on low heat
- While cooking the green beans, skim off the air bubbles floating on the green beans’ surface
- Put 3 tablespoons of white sugar in the pot of green beans
- Stir well with your hands to dissolve the sugar and prevent the green beans from burning, stoking on the bottom of the pot
Step 4: Puree green beans
- Cooked green beans, use a sieve to remove the green beans from the pot, let the green beans drain
- Put the green beans in the blender, proceed to puree the green beans for 10 minutes
Step 5: Green bean slug
- Put the pan on the stove and heat the pan
- Hot pan, pour the pureed green bean paste above into the slugs evenly with low heat to drain the green beans.
- Mix 20g of glutinous rice flour with 300ml of water. Stir until the powder is dissolved in the water
- Slowly pour the flour mixture into the green bean pan. While pouring, stir well to mix the green bean paste together
- Put 20g of matcha powder in a bowl with 20ml of boiling water. Stir until the matcha powder dissolves with the water
- Slowly pour the matcha powder mixture into the green bean pan. While pouring, stir well until the green bean paste turns light green and dry
- The filling is dry, the color is beautiful, you turn off the stove and pour the filling into a bowl and let the filling cool
Step 6: Make the crust
- Put in a bowl including: 200gr sugar water + 30gr green tea powder + 20ml grapefruit flower essential oil + 300gr glutinous flour
- Mix all ingredients together until thickened
- Use your hands, knead and squeeze gently to form a dry, smooth, non-sticky dough mixture
- Wrap the food in cling film, let the dough rest for 30 minutes to rest and soften
Step 7: Shape the cake
- Thinly slice 100g of dry powder onto a clean tray
- Take out the cake dough, divide the dough into small pieces
- Use rolling, rolling, flattening and rounding the dough
- Divide the dough into small pieces. Round and multiply
- Place the filling in the center of the crust
- Using your hands, pinch the edges of the dough to tighten
- Continue, place the filling in the center of the matcha crust
- Using your hands, pinch the edges of the dough to tighten
- Put the cake that has just been molded into the shaping mold
- Press and hold about 10 pieces of paper to shape the cake
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How to make super strange salted egg Matcha mooncakes
Preparation ingredients
- 300g peeled green beans
- 300g cake dough
- 20g cornstarch
- 10ml grapefruit flower essential oil
- 10ml lemon juice
- 20ml white wine
- 7 salted eggs
- Cooking oil
- Sesame oil
- White sugar
- Grain salt
Step 1: Make cake sugar
- Put 200g of white sugar in a pot with 500ml of pure water
- Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water
- Put the sugar water mixture on the stove and boil for 20 minutes
- The sugar water boils, reduce the heat, continue to boil the sugar water with low heat for 5-7 minutes
- Pour 20ml of lemon juice into the pot of sugar water
- Hold the pot handle, shake gently on both sides for the lemon juice to dissolve with the sugar water
- Pour the sugar water mixture through a sieve, filter out dirt and impurities
- Finally, pour the sugar water into a bowl, let it cool
Step 2: Prepare green beans
- Wash green beans 2-3 times under clean running water
- Using your hands, completely remove the damaged green beans, flat seeds, impurities, … in the bowl of green beans
- Soak green beans for 4-6 hours with warm water to soften the green beans
- After soaking the green beans, pick up the green beans, lightly shake the water until the green beans are drained
- Put green beans in a pot with 500ml of purified water + teaspoon of salt
- Proceed to cook green beans for 60 minutes on low heat
- While cooking the green beans, skim off the air bubbles floating on the green beans’ surface
- Put 3 tablespoons of white sugar in the pot of green beans
- Stir well with your hands to dissolve the sugar and prevent the green beans from burning, stoking on the bottom of the pot
- Boil the green beans for another 15 minutes until the beans are cooked and drained
- Remove the green beans from the pot, drain and cool
Step 3: Puree green beans
- Put the green beans into the blender and proceed to puree and smooth the green beans for 5 minutes
Step 4: Green bean slug
- Put the pan on the stove and heat the pan
- Hot pan, pour pureed mung bean paste and slugs over low heat
- Put 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a pan of green beans
- Slug with oil and green beans
- Put 20g of matcha powder in a bowl with 300ml of water. Stir until cornstarch is dissolved in water
- Slowly pour the matcha powdered water mixture into the green bean curd on the stove
- Stir well to thicken the cornstarch mixture with the green beans
- Concentrated mung bean paste, you add 10g of sticky rice flour and continue to slug it with the green bean paste to form a smooth, homogeneous, non-sticky filling.
- Turn off the heat, pour the matcha green bean paste into a bowl and cool the filling
- Divide the matcha green bean paste into small pieces
- Roll up the filling, wrap the filling, and store it in the refrigerator
Step 5: Bake salted eggs
- Place salted eggs in a bowl with 20ml white wine. Mix well
- Line the parchment paper in the oven
- Arrange salted eggs, lightly brush a layer of sesame oil around the eggs
- Put the salted eggs in the oven, bake the salted eggs for 10 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius
- Remove the salted egg from the oven, let it cool
Step 6: Make the crust
- Put in a bowl of sugar water 10ml grapefruit essential oil. Stir well
- Slowly add 150g of sticky rice flour into the bowl of grapefruit flower sugar
- Using a whisk, beat the mixture until combined
- Add 50g of glutinous rice flour to the bowl, knead it with your hands and gently squeeze it for 5-7 minutes to form a smooth, uniform, non-sticky dough.
- Thinly slice 50g of cake dough onto a non-stick towel
- Put the finished dough on top, fold the dough horizontally and vertically several times to form a rectangle
- Using a knife, divide the dough into equal parts
Step 7: Shape the cake
- Take out the cake batter just divided on top. Roll and flatten the dough
- Take the matcha green bean filling. Rolled thin and flat
- Place each salted egg on the matcha green bean filling
- Using your hands, grasp the edges of the dough, do not let the salted eggs open
- Put the salted egg filling on the crust
- Using your hands, grasp the cake crust to cover the filling
- Shape the cake into a circle
- Put the cake in the cake mold
- Press firmly with your hand and hold for about 10 seconds to shape the cake
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