Cakes & Bread
Kue Mendut (Steamed Sticky Rice Dumplings with Mung Bean Filling)
Prep
35 min
Cook
25 min
Servings
10
Level
Medium
Kue mendut, a beautiful Javanese treat wrapped in banana leaves shaped like little boats! Soft white sticky rice dough is filled with a sweet mung bean paste, wrapped in triangular banana leaf parcels, and steamed. It's smoother than klepon and more elegant than onde-onde — a graceful Javanese festive treat.
🧂 Ingredients
🍽️ Servings: 10
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- Dough: 200g white glutinous rice flour
- 150ml warm coconut milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Pandan green or purple sweet potato food coloring (optional)
- Mung bean filling: 150g peeled split mung beans, soaked 2 hours
- 75g granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 leaf pandan leaf
- 2 tbsp grated coconut
- Coconut sauce: 200ml thick coconut milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 leaf pandan leaf
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- Young banana leaves, for wrapping
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👩🍳 Instructions
- 1 Filling: steam the mung beans until very tender, then mash together with the sugar, salt, and pandan leaf.
- 2 Cook in a pan, stirring, until the mixture holds together well; add the grated coconut, let cool, then shape into small oval pieces.
- 3 Dough: mix the glutinous rice flour, salt, and warm coconut milk, then knead until smooth and pliable.
- 4 Divide the dough and add coloring if you like.
- 5 Sauce: cook all the sauce ingredients together, stirring, until slightly thickened.
- 6 Take a piece of banana leaf, place 1 tbsp of the sticky rice dough on it, and flatten it.
- 7 Add the mung bean filling, then wrap and seal the leaf into a triangle or boat shape.
- 8 Steam all the mendut for 20-25 minutes.
- 9 Remove from the steamer, open the wrapping slightly, and pour the warm coconut sauce over the top.
- 10 Serve warm with extra coconut sauce.
💡 Tips
• The mung bean filling needs to hold together perfectly so it doesn't turn watery during steaming
• Pliable young banana leaves are easier to shape and less likely to tear
• The savory coconut sauce poured on top is what sets mendut apart from other sticky rice cakes
📊 Nutrition Facts / serving
170
Calories (kcal)
4g
Protein
6g
Fat
28g
Carbs
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