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It’s been a while since I did any Facebook Lives but yesterday I plunged back in and demonstrated mung bean omelets.

Another thing to do with the mung bean batter is to make “muffins” with the batter and filling. Grease the cups of a muffin tin, or use silicon cups like I do. Into each cup pour a couple tablespoons of batter. Add a tablespoon or two of filled (I added potatoes and a bit of chopped Mrs. Fields sausage.) Top with more batter. Cook them at 350 for 15 minutes, until the muffin starts to pull away from the pan.

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time3 minutes
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Mung Bean Omelet

Mung beans can be used to make a beautiful omelet
Course: Breakfast
Keyword: brunch
Servings: 2

Equipment

  • non-stick pan
  • blender

Ingredients

mung bean batter

  • 1 cup mung beans shelled, split
  • 1 1/4 cup plant milk any kind
  • 1 tsp black salt aka kala namak
  • 1 clove garlic or 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper

omelet filling – so many possibilities. Any or all of these:

  • 1 medium potato diced
  • 1/2 bell pepper any color, diced
  • 1 tomato chopped
  • 1 handful spinach
  • 3 green onions chopped

Instructions

mung bean batter

  • Soak the mung beans in water, 8 hours or longer. I refrigerate them for this step.
  • Drain and rinse the beans. Add them to a blender with the rest of the batter ingredients. Blend until smooth and creamy. The batter should be pourable but not thick, thin but not watery.

Filling

  • If you are using diced potatoes, cook them in boiling water for 7-9 minutes until done.
  • Sauté whatever filling ingredients you choose. It's necessary to cook them a little (unless you like them uncooked) because the mung bean batter cooks very quickly and will barely even warm the filling.

Make the omelet

  • Heat your non-stick pan over medium heat.
  • Pour 1/2 cup of batter onto the pan. Swirl the pan around to encourage the batter to spread out into a circle of thin batter.
  • Spread filling over half of the circle of batter.
  • The batter cooks quickly, in a couple of minutes. When the edge easily lifts from the pan, the omelet is done. Fold the omelet in half and slide it out of the pan.

Notes

It’s always nice to have a sauce with an omelet. Some options are a vegan cheese sauce (there’s a good one with this nachos recipe) or a quick whisk of vegan mayo and salsa.