How to Use mung bean in a Sentence

mung bean

noun
  • The glutinous rice cakes are filled with mung bean and pork, then steamed in banana leaves.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The mung bean egg is, is new and does do something different.
    — Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • In some Asian cultures, mung beans are cooked and mashed to form a sweet dessert paste.
    — Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In some Asian cultures, mung beans are cooked and mashed to form a sweet dessert paste.
    — Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Chen’s favorite filling is glutinous rice with split mung beans.
    — Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • Add mung beans and cook until slightly softened, about 1 minute.
    — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • Made with tender glutinous rice flour and filled with mung bean paste, the balls are then rolled in sesame seeds and fried.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • Glass noodles might describe those made with sweet potato or mung bean starches.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • To make a jian bing guozi, first, a mung bean mixture is fanned out with a ladle onto a flat-iron pan.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Some of her recipes include lentil granola, bean-ana bread and a mung bean scallion pancake.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 18 May 2026
  • Much of the 20 grams of protein in each burger comes from peas, but some comes from rice and mung bean.
    — Larissa Zimberoff, Time, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Sold in one pound packages, Beyond Beef is made of a mix of pea, mung bean and rice.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2019
  • Vermicelli can be used to refer to noodles made with rice or mung bean starch.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • The rice cakes Tran referred to are filled with mung beans and pork belly wrapped and steamed in banana leaves.
    — Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Instead of only wheat flour, jianbing recipes often use mung bean flour or millet flour.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The sticky rice balls at Dinette Bakery contain red bean, mung bean and coconut.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
  • It's made of pea, rice and mung bean, according to the company’s website.
    — Ava Garcia, azcentral, 24 June 2019
  • The formula also includes red clover and mung bean to prevent further hair loss.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, ELLE, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Made from mung bean starch, glass noodles are also referred to as mien or cellophane noodles.
    — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Even the smell is surprisingly convincing for something made out of mung beans.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The faux sausage is made solely from plants using peas, mung beans, rice and sunflower to provide protein.
    — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This comes from the mung beans, which are full of polysaccharides—a complex carbohydrate that reads sweet on our tongues.
    — Alison Roman, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Outside of lamb, turkey, and soy, products like mung beans wormed their way into Bureau taste tests.
    — Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The savory sticky rice dish, shaped as a square, is traditionally filled with mung beans and pork and cooked in banana leaves.
    — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The mung bean isn’t just making waves in American retail outlets.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The menu includes porridge made from mung beans with cashews and coconut milk, lentil soup with chili or lemon rice with peanuts, mustard seeds and turmeric.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Flavors include Okinawan purple yam with coconut and matcha green tea with mung bean.
    — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • The Leung sisters used their mom's mung bean popsicle recipe as an example.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Adzuki Beans Adzuki beans, or red mung beans, are widely used in Asian cooking.
    — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Other beans are often made into paste to be used as mooncake fillings, the most common include winter gourd and mung bean.
    — Em Chan, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022

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