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
  • 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
  • Grower of mung bean sprouts in his desk drawer at work.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 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
  • The mung bean egg is, is new and does do something different.
    Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • The sticky rice balls at Dinette Bakery contain red bean, mung bean and coconut.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • It will be added to a veggie stock with the mung beans, mirepoix and more miso, and then topped with fried oyster mushrooms.
    Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Dinette Bakery has two options: mung bean and coconut, and red bean.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Rollover Make extra sprouted mung bean salad and serve it over cooked brown rice for a complete lunch the next day.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • It's made of pea, rice and mung bean, according to the company’s website.
    Ava Garcia, azcentral, 24 June 2019
  • Add mung beans and cook until slightly softened, about 1 minute.
    Eleanore Park, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • 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 restaurant makes some of the snacks and desserts itself, like lotus crackers, rice crackers and sweet, gluten-free sesame balls, filled with mung beans and coconut milk.
    Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Thuc and her husband of 54 years, Hoang Quang Trung, served us Vietnamese sticky rice made with mung beans, tapioca and sugar.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Vermicelli can be used to refer to noodles made with rice or mung bean starch.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • To test the new solar cells, Yang’s team compared the yields of two dollhouse-sized greenhouses growing broccoli, mung beans, and wheat.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The major grocery chain is already stocking Just Egg, made with mung beans, in some of its locations.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Outside of lamb, turkey, and soy, products like mung beans wormed their way into Bureau taste tests.
    Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Glass noodles might describe those made with sweet potato or mung bean starches.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Nguyen spends a full day making them, soaking the rice, preparing the filling of pork belly and mung beans, and steaming the cakes in banana leaves for six to eight hours.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The mung bean isn’t just making waves in American retail outlets.
    Chase Purdy, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The formula also includes red clover and mung bean to prevent further hair loss.
    Jesa Marie Calaor, ELLE, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Diners can pile on shredded chicken, mung bean dumplings, barbecue pork or a mix of sausage, dried shrimp, pork roll and dried shredded pork to their rice pile.
    Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Instead of only wheat flour, jianbing recipes often use mung bean flour or millet flour.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Even the smell is surprisingly convincing for something made out of mung beans.
    Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Glassy mung bean noodles join the dumplings and the chewy, oval rice cakes, and then a full choir pipes up: thinly sliced carrots and zucchini, a handful of battered onion bits, red chile flakes.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019

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