World Flavors Cookbook

Lü Dou Zhou (Mung Bean Congee)

Name: Lü Dou Zhou (Mung Bean Congee)
Cook time: 75 min
Cuisine: Ancient World
Ingredients: green mung beans, white rice, water, rock sugar or brown sugar

Green mung beans slow-cooked with rice into a cooling summer porridge — documented in Chinese medical texts as a heat-clearing preparation for summer months.

Cuisine: Ancient World

Ingredients

green mung beans, white rice, water, rock sugar or brown sugar

Instructions

Soak mung beans 2 hours. Drain. Combine mung beans and rice with 10 times their combined volume of water. Bring to a rolling boil. Skim any foam. Reduce to a low simmer. Cook 1 hour, stirring regularly, until beans burst and rice has dissolved into a thick congee. Sweeten with rock sugar. Serve warm in summer or chilled.