Strawberry and Green Tea Mung Bean Snow Skin Mooncake

I may have been a little over excited about the whole Mid Autumn Festival this year. This is a snow skin moon cake made mainly from corn flour, wheat starch and glutinous rice flour which are completely gluten free. Although you need to make sure that you buy the gluten free version of wheat starch as some can contain a small amount of gluten if you are coeliac and is concern about that.

This mooncake recipe is made with a mung bean base Green Tea paste and a Strawberry snow skin. There are absolutely no food colouring involved, which is great if you are making them for children and want to stir away from food colouring for them.

What is mid autumn festival?

Mid autumn festival is a festival widely celebrated by the Chinese. It is a day where family will gather and have dinner together. It is a lot like a Chinese version of a thanksgiving.

During this festival, adults will be busy buying moon cakes for relatives and friends as well as organising a huge family dinner gathering whilst the children will be anticipating for the night where they will walk around neighbourhoods in the night with paper-made lanterns.

Mid autumn festival also marks the day for moon appreciation hence why moon cake is a big thing for this festivities.

When is mid- autumn Festival this year 2020

In the year 2020, mid autumn festival falls on the 1st of October.

Recommended "consume by" time frame

It is recommended that you consume the freshly made snow skin moon cake on the day that they are made. These mooncakes can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks depending on the quality of your storage.

How to store the moon cake

If you intend to keep the moon cake to be consumed later on, it is best that you keep the moon cake in an air tight container and store them in the freezer.

Before serving, simply thawed them for a couple of hours. It is best to consume a thawed snow skin moon cake on the same day for best quality.

Rice Flour

I find that the rice flour in Australian supermarket are quite different than the ones you would get from the Asian groceries. The ones from the western supermarket tend to be coarser and drier. I would highly recommend that you use the Asian Rice Flour that contain 88% Rice and 12% water for the best result.

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RECIPE

Yield: 5 Large Mooncake

Strawberry Snow Skin

50 g Glutinous Rice Flour

40 g Rice Flour (88% Rice, 12% Water)

20 g Wheat Starch

45 g Castor Sugar

185 ml Coconut Milk

20 g Vegetable Oil

6 g Freeze Dried Strawberry Powder

Green Tea Mung Bean Fillings

75 g Mung Beans (Skinned and Split)

10 g Green Tea Powder

1 g Fine salt

65 g Castor Sugar

90 g Full Cream Milk

15 ml Vegetable oil

1 tbsp. Glutinous Rice Flour

30 g Wheat Starch (for Dusting)

10 g Freeze Dried Strawberry Powder (For Dusting)

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Method

For the Green Tea Mung Bean Fillings

Before proceeding, make sure that you soak the split mung bean in water covering at least 2 cm with water above the beans overnight.

1. Strained the soaked and soft mung beans.

Steam the soaked mung beans for approximately 30 minutes or until the beans are completely soft. Set aside to cool fully before placing the beans into a food processor.

2. Process the mung beans until it turns in to a smooth paste.

3. Add the rest of the ingredient in to the food process with the mung bean paste and process until combine and the paste turns smooth.

Note: Process the paste until it is as smooth as possible. If you do not have a strong processor like myself, pass it through a sieve.

4. Once the paste is smooth, transfer it into a non stick deep frying pan over medium, heat, sprinkle the glutinous rice flour and stir into the paste to combine. Keep stirring until the paste comes together into a really thick consistency.

5. Transfer the paste into a bowl and wrap with cling film touching the surface of the paste and leave to cool.

6. Once cooled, portion in to 5 x 50 g portions.