The market · Beans and pulses · South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

Mung beans

Small green beans — mild, faintly sweet and quick to cook. The source of bean sprouts, glass noodles and moong dal.

sweet · mild · green

Kinds

Whole green
For sprouting, soups and dal.
Split and hulled (moong dal)
Yellow, soft in 20 minutes; the gentlest dal, and the one in khichdi.
Starch
What glass noodles are made of.

Goes with

gheecumin seedturmericrice

Knowing it

Where to buy
South Asian and Chinese grocers.

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