Thread: A Bean Soup

This is easy to make and just the ticket for these cold winter evenings. A hearty mung-bean soup, based on a recipe from the Philippines.


-half a pack of beans(250g)
-100ml coconut milk
-onion, garlic, tomato; augergine or other veges optional
-dried shrimps (and/or cubed pork belly)
-salt, fishsauce, vinegar to taste

1st: soak the beans in plenty of hot water for a few hours, add salt

Boil at low heat ('congee' setting on my rice cooker) until the beans start to disintegrate -30 min.

Chop up the veges, shallow-fry the aubergine, add onions after 5 min, and finally the garlic.


Add the tomatoes, shrimps and the fry, simmer for another 10 min before adding the coconut milk.


Simmer for another 10 min, add fish-sauce and vinegar.
Chopped koriander leaves are an optional refinement just before serving.

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Originally Posted by Begbie

I wanted to say that...

many apologies.

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This makes more than one liter of steaming, thick soup.


Note to the thaiophile cooks: You may add as much chillie (pik bon) as you like without spoiling the flavour.