9 super easy, delicious and authentic vegetarian mooncake recipes

Vegetarian mooncakes are a popular type of cake that many dieters and diabetics choose every August full moon festival. If you don’t like buying cakes from stores and want to try your hand at making them yourself, the following 9 ways to make vegetarian mooncakes are for you.

1. How to make vegetarian mooncakes with mixed fillings

1.1 Ingredients

– Cake filling: familiar and delicious jams (pumpkin, lotus, red ginger, lemon), cashews, melon seeds, shiitake mushrooms, peanuts, green beans, cheese, lemon leaves, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, powdered sugar… Ingredients for vegetarian mooncakes with mixed fillings can be added or subtracted depending on each person’s taste and preference.

– The crust includes: flour, sugar water, baking soda, peanut butter, oil.

1.2 Steps

For the cake filling, cut the shiitake mushrooms into small cubes, shred the vegetarian spare ribs, finely shredded lemon leaves, cashews, crushed peanuts, chopped jam, and ground sugar. Mix the above mixture with soy sauce, sesame oil, and oyster sauce, stir-fry in a pan until cooked, let cool, and roll into even balls.

The moon cake crust is made by mixing about 500g of flour with 1/4 of the amount of baking soda, finely ground. The sugar water, peanut butter, and cooking oil are mixed well and mixed into the dough. Then let the dough rest for about 30 minutes. Next, divide the dough into balls, roll them into balls, and roll them out thinly.

Continue to put the rolled filling in the middle, roll into a ball and put it in the moon cake mold, press lightly. Turn the mold upside down to take out the cake. After the mixed filling vegetarian moon cake is shaped, put it in the oven to bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Take the cake out, turn it upside down, spray water to dry and bake for about 10 more minutes to complete the delicious, healthy mixed filling vegetarian moon cake.

How to make vegetarian mooncakes with mixed fillings
How to make vegetarian mooncakes with mixed fillings

2. How to make vegetarian soft mooncakes with mung bean filling

2.1 Ingredients

Ingredients Vegetarian soft moon cake with green bean filling including skinless mung beans soaked overnight, sticky rice flour, lemon, grapefruit essential oil, sugar, salt, cooking oil.

2.2 Steps

For the sugar water, boil 0.5kg sugar, 350ml water, half a lemon until the sugar dissolves, let cool.

For the green bean filling, put the beans in a pot, add water to cover the beans, add a little salt, cook on the stove for about 10 minutes until the beans are soft. After the beans are soft, put the warm beans in a blender, add sugar and then puree.

Put the ground mixture into the pan with cooking oil and grapefruit essential oil. Stir-fry until the beans do not stick to the pan and thicken, then turn off the heat and let cool. Roll the cooled beans into balls.

For the vegetarian mooncake crust, add the cooked sugar water and grapefruit essential oil into a bowl and stir well. Sift the glutinous rice flour into the sugar water and mix gently until thick. Roll into balls twice the size of the filling.

Then, use a rolling pin to roll out the dough and put the filling in the middle, roll it into a ball. Press it into the mold, then turn the mold upside down and take out the cake. You’re done! How to make vegetarian mooncakes without oven Delicious and attractive green bean filling.

How to make vegetarian mooncakes with green bean filling
Vegetarian mooncakes with green bean filling suit many people’s taste.

3. How to make vegetarian mooncakes with purple sweet potato skin without oven

3.1 Ingredients

To make vegetarian mooncakes with purple sweet potato skinusers need to prepare the following ingredients: sugar, fresh milk, condensed milk, green beans, purple sweet potatoes, grated coconut.

3.2 Steps

To make the vegetarian mooncake crust, do the following: Wash 1kg of purple sweet potatoes, peel and steam until cooked. When the potatoes are cooked, mash them with 75ml of condensed milk and 200ml of fresh milk, mix well. Put the mixed potatoes in a pan, stir continuously until the mixture is soft and smooth, then roll into balls.

For the filling: take 200g of peeled mung beans, soak overnight, put in a pot, add water to cover and boil until the beans are soft. Put the boiled beans and sugar in a blender, puree. Continue to put the pureed mixture in a pan and stir-fry until cooked, add grated coconut and roll into balls the size of 1/2 of the dough.

Roll out the dough thinly with a simple, convenient multi-purpose baking tool, put the mung bean filling in the middle, roll it into a ball so that the dough covers the filling. Put the rolled dough into the mold, press lightly and turn the mold upside down to take out the cake. Thus, you have a delicious vegetarian moon cake with purple sweet potato skin without an oven. With a beautiful color, this is definitely a meaningful gift for relatives and friends this Mid-Autumn Festival.

Vegetarian mooncake with purple potato skin is delicious, chewy and sweet.
Vegetarian mooncake with purple potato skin is delicious, chewy and sweet.

4. How to make vegetarian jelly mooncakes

4.1 Ingredients

Vegetarian jelly mooncake is a type of cake with a unique flavor that is chosen by many people today because of its coolness and ease of eating. Especially, the way to make it is simple so everyone can make it at home.

Ingredients include sugar, water, pandan leaves, fresh milk, kiwi, cherry or other fruits of your choice, and agar powder.

4.2 Steps

How to make fruit jelly mooncakes by adding water, white sugar, jelly powder, pandan leaves into a pot, bring to a boil. When the mixture boils, remove the pandan leaves, add fresh milk, continue to boil and turn off the stove. You can add food coloring as desired to create color. Pour the cooked water into the cake mold and put it in the refrigerator. After the jelly has solidified, take it out of the mold and now you can enjoy this cool jelly.

Vegetarian jelly mooncake
Delicious and cool vegetarian jelly mooncakes.

5. How to make vegetarian mooncakes with green tea filling

5.1 Ingredients

To do green tea mooncakeyou need to prepare the ingredients including: sticky rice flour, grapefruit flower water, cooking oil. The sugar water part includes water, white sugar, lemon for the cake crust. The cake filling part includes: peeled mung beans soaked overnight, sugar, sticky rice flour, cooking oil, green tea powder, …

5.2 Steps

To make the filling, put the mung beans in a pot, cover with water and cook until the beans are soft. Add the cooked beans and sugar to the blender and blend until smooth. Cook the filling until it is thick but not sticky.

Add green tea powder, boiling water, and glutinous rice flour to a small bowl and stir well. Then add the green tea powder mixture to the bean paste. Roll the paste into small balls. Make the sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water, adding lemon juice and bringing to a boil again, then turning off the heat.

The crust is made by adding cooking oil, sugar water, grapefruit flower water to a bowl, adding the smooth flour and using a special dough mixer to knead the mixture until smooth and elastic. Let the dough rest for 15-20 minutes, use your hands to flatten the dough, add the filling inside, wrap it tightly. Put the dough and filling into the mold, press lightly and flip it upside down to release the cake.

How to make vegetarian mooncakes with green tea filling
How to make vegetarian mooncakes with green tea filling.

6. How to make vegetarian mooncakes with red gac peel

6.1 Raw materials

To do Vegetarian mooncake with gac fruit You need to prepare the following ingredients: flour, gac sugar water, gac fruit rice, cooking oil, grated coconut, water, sugar, sticky rice flour, roasted sesame, mung bean filling.

6.2 Steps

How to make gac mooncakes is also very simple. Squeeze the gac pulp, remove the seeds and sift with 800ml of water. Put the gac juice and sugar in a pot, boil then add lemon juice and continue to boil until the sugar water thickens. Add flour and glutinous rice flour to the sugar water, mix well into a dough. Roll into small round balls.

The green bean filling is made by putting peeled green beans soaked overnight into a pot. Add water to cover the beans, boil until the beans are soft (about 15 minutes), put the cooked beans in a blender and puree, add sugar. Put the pureed mixture in a pan and cook until smooth, turn off the heat and roll into balls.

Use your hands to flatten the dough, put the filling in the middle and roll it up so that the dough covers the filling. Put the cake in a convenient, compact oven, turn on 200 degrees C for 7 minutes. Add water and bake again at 150 degrees C for 5 minutes.

7. How to make ice cream moon cake

7.1 Ingredients

Ice cream moon cake is a vegetarian moon cake that is loved by many children. The ingredients are also easy to find, including only: chocolate, sugar, and cream of your choice.

7.2 Steps

Melt the chocolate by steaming or using a genuine, multi-function microwave. Next, put the chocolate into the mold so that it is evenly around the mold, put the mold in the refrigerator until it is completely frozen. When the chocolate is frozen, take it out of the mold and fill the mold with cream, continue to fill the mold until the cake is frozen. Add the remaining chocolate to fill the mold and freeze the cake. When the cake is frozen, you can take it out and enjoy the delicious ice cream moon cake.

You can use white chocolate, then mix colors to make different colors of vegan cream mooncakes to suit your children’s preferences.

8. How to make Singaporean cold soft mooncakes

8.1 Raw materials

Do Singaporean cold soft mooncake Need to prepare ingredients for the cake crust including cooked sticky rice flour, powdered sugar, shortening, cold milk.

8.2 Steps

Put the roasted glutinous rice flour into a bowl, sift it, then add shortening, mix well with the flour, and beat the dough evenly. Then add cold milk and knead until the dough is smooth. Let the dough rest for about 15 minutes.

The filling ingredients include peeled mung beans soaked overnight, sugar, and water. Put the mung beans in a pot, add enough water to cover the beans, and boil until the beans are soft. Puree the beans with sugar and put them in a pan to cook until the beans are dry and let cool. Roll them into a ball to form the filling. Use your hands to flatten the dough, put the filling in the middle, then roll the dough and filling into a ball again. Put them in the mold, press lightly, and take the cake out.

How to make Singaporean soft cold mooncakes
How to make Singaporean soft cold mooncakes

9. How to make vegetarian mooncakes with red bean filling

9.1 Ingredients

To do Vegetarian Red Bean Mooncake You need to prepare the crust including flour, sugar water, cooking oil. For the filling, you need to prepare green tea powder, red beans, lemon juice, sugar, and salt.

9.2 Steps

First, put water and sugar in a pot and boil until the sugar boils and dissolves until the sugar turns golden brown. Let the sugar water cool. Mix the flour into the sugar water, add cooking oil. Mix well then add green tea powder and knead until the dough is soft and smooth. Let the dough rest for 15-20 minutes. Divide the dough into small balls twice the size of the filling.

Continue making the filling, put red beans in a bowl, pour water to cover and microwave for about 10 minutes. Red bean vegetarian cakes are usually low in sugar and calories, suitable for people with diabetes and dieting. Put red beans in a blender, run smoothly, blend with white sugar. After blending, put the mixture in a pan and cook until the red beans are dry, let cool and roll into balls.

Flatten the dough, put the filling in the middle and roll it into a ball. Put it into the mold, press it into shape, take the cake out. Bake the cake in the oven for about 10 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. Take the cake out, add more water to moisten the cake and bake again for about 5 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius.

Above are 9 ways to make delicious, standard vegetarian moon cakes that you can refer to to make delicious, healthy cakes right at home. Hope you have a happy, meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival.

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