mung bean with dates soup😊
Hellow foodies and steemit fellows😉
I'm a bit late to post this week, because I'm away from home for several hours and I consumed an anti-alergic pill which made me sleeping longer than usual😂.
But, I'm not gonaa missed out to use #fruitsandveggiesmonday by 
I know.. I know, I'm the judge of this week but there's no rules to prevent a judge of posting, right? Beside... I won't choose mine to be a winner 😂😂😂
My FIL surprised me by soaking the mung bean since 2.pm last saturday. I thought that he wants me to make a creamy mung bean soup. So, I decided to proceed the soup on the evening. Though 4-6 hours is not the right time to soak the bean, but I know a trick to make it well-cooked😊
I think that I will wait for another hour before I cook it, but My FIL was starting to proceed the soaked mung beans himself. I took over everything from his hand. I wash the soaked mung bean and boil the water before I put the bean in.
the trick is cook this mung bean soup with low heat in a closed pan😊 maybe around 30-45 minutes, and you can add a thumb of fresh ginger root too. Don't put any salt!
While I was cooking the mung bean, My FIL came with a can of left over dates he gots from her step daughter a month ago. He said that I need to put the dates when the mung bean well-cooked and I don't have to add coconut's cream or additional sugar. I never made a mung bean soup with dates before😨 so I followed his instruction.
I took the seed out and I know why he wanted me to add this dates into the mungbean soup😊
The dates were already to dry to consume, My FIL is toothless and he wanted to eat the dates. So, following my instinc, I need to cook this dates for a few minutes to make it a bit soft for him. The taste was too bland and plain. So I add 50 grams sugar and a tsp salt too before I turn off the heat.
My FIL ate the soup happily, I knew that he doesn't likes a sweet soup. In the other side, My hubby asked for a sachet of condensed milk for his mung bean soup😊 and he told me that he loves the dates in the soup. Though he hates the ginger taste in his soup😂😂😂.
I like them both😊 with or without dates, with or without condensed milk, with or without coconut's cream. Mung bean is always welcome 😉