Mung Bean Recipes – Collection Of Moong Dal Recipes

If you are looking for easy, healthy, nutritious, vegetarian or vegan mung bean recipes to make at your home from scratch, here you can find my collection of mung bean recipes or moong dal recipe round up (mung beans is known by the name moong dal in India).

Keep in mind that these include recipes for both whole green moong dal and yellow moong dal which is the skin removed version of the whole dal.

What Is Mung Beans?

Mung beans is a very nutritious legumes.

They are very commonly used in many Asian cuisines including Indian, Chinese, Filipino cuisines.

In India, mung beans is known by the name moong dal & both whole green moong dal & the yellow moong dal which is the skin removed variety of moong dal, are used in many recipes.

They are also known as monggo beans, green grams, maash, munggo etc in different cuisines.

Mung beans is very nutritious & naturally gluten free and so mung beans is preferred by those who have diabetes, as a natural replacement to rice in many recipes.

Mung beans is also very healthy & contains less carbohydrates than grains like rice.

Also it is a very good source of vegetarian plant based protein and so it is popularly used in many vegetarian & vegan diets.

Popular recipes around the world using mung beans includes mung bean soup, mung bean curry, mung bean noodles, mung bean sprout salads etc.

Though mung beans can be easily cooked in a pot or pan on stove top, you can cook mung beans even more easily using a pressure cooker or instant pot pressure cooker.

I have a lot of recipes using mung beans, mostly Indian recipes, and you can see them below!

In the below collection, many mung bean recipes are prepared using instant pot pressure cooker, but you may also make those dishes on stove top using a pan or pot.

Instant pot is very convenient to use cook many foods much faster than the traditional methods, and the best thing about instant pot pressure cooker is that you do not have to stand nearby and watch while it’s cooking.

Mostly it’s is just dump & go recipes which is super easy & time saving! You can see all my instant pot recipes here, which includes mung bean recipes, rice recipes, pasta recipes and many more.

So let’s go check the collection of mung bean recipes in my blog!

Mung Bean Recipes Collection

How To Cook Mung Beans Without Soaking – Green Moong Dal

Easy, simple mung beans recipe explaining how to cook mung beans and how long to cook mung beans in stove top method using a pan, regular pressure cooker method on stove top and also instant pot method. Preparation times are based on stove top pan method.

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Mung Bean Soup In Instant Pot – Monggo Bean Dal Soup

Mung bean soup also known as monggo bean soup made in the instant pot is a very simple, easy, delicious, nutritious and healthy vegetarian soup using whole green mung beans (moong dal), onions and spices!

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Instant Pot Mung Bean Curry

Instant pot mung beans are easy to cook and you can follow the recipe to make instant pot mung bean curry (with green mung beans) and also learn to cook green mung beans in instant pot for soups, stews etc.

This tomato moong dal curry is made using whole green mung beans, tomatoes and spices. You can add a sliced onion too if you wish. To make the curry creamy, you can also add couple of spoons of heavy cream or coconut milk once the curry is made.

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Sweet Potato Mung Bean Curry – Mung Bean Stew/Soup

Easy, simple & delicious sweet potato curry with green mung beans dal and spices has the consistency of a rich soup or stew! This dal curry or stew made using sweet potatoes and whole green mung beans using Indian spices with the addition of some sauces can be enjoyed with rice or Indian breads like chapathi, naan bread, poori etc.

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Instant Pot Moong Dal Fry – Moong Dal Tadka

Easy and delicious yellow moong dal fry made in instant pot (a very quick and easy one pot Indian dish) is perfect with rice or enjoy this as a side dish with Indian flatbread like chapathi, poori etc.

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Pesarattu Dosa Using Green Moong Dal Dosa Batter (Indian)

Easy, healthy, quick and nutritious pesarattu dosa (Indian style savory thin pancakes or crepes) using pesarattu batter or green moong dal (whole green mung beans) batter for breakfast, dinner or snack!

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Easy Moong Dal Dosa Recipe, Pasi Paruppu Dosai Recipe

Moong dal dosa recipe using yellow split mung beans also known as pasi paruppu dosai is very easy to make as it doesn’t require fermentation like rice & urad dal dosa.

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Cherupayar Curry – Green Moong Dal Curry Recipe

Green moong dal curry or cheupayar curry without coconut is easy to prepare and you can enjoy it with rice, chapathi, dosa, poori etc for a simple, healthy and yummy South Indian style meal. We make this dish using green moong dal which is also known as green grams or green mung beans. This South Indian Kerala style dish is healthy, delicious, easy to make, vegetarian as well as vegan.

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Cherupayar Thoran – Kerala Style Mung Beans With Coconut

Cherupayar thoran is South Indian Kerala style green mung bean with coconut and spices which makes a very delicious and healthy vegetarian/vegan side dish with rice for lunch or dinner.

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Instant Pot Cherupayar Thoran (Indian Kerala Mung Bean Recipe)

Instant pot cherupayar thoran is South Indian Kerala style green mung beans recipe with coconut which makes a vegetarian & vegan dry lentil side dish with rice. Its delicious, easy to make and healthy too!

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Green Banana Curry/Plantain Curry With Mung Beans

Raw banana curry with cherupayar(green mug beans), coconut and spices makes a very easy, quick and yummy vegetarian curry with rice for lunch or dinner.

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Easy Coconut Rice Recipe With Green Mung Beans, South Indian Kerala Style Green Mung Bean Coconut Rice Recipe

Very easy to make, simple and yummy South Indian Kerala style coconut rice with green mung beans.

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Pasi Paruppu Payasam Recipe, South Indian Style Moong Dal Payasam (Mung Bean Pudding Dessert) Recipe With Sugar

Easy and yummy south Indian style pasi paruppu payasam or moong dal payasam (mung bean dessert) prepared without jaggery (using sugar).

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Yellow Rice And Beans Recipe

Easy, healthy and yummy yellow rice with mung beans (using green mung beans) make a quick one pot meal which is also great for lunch box.

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Moong Dal Sambar For Rice – Pasi Paruppu Sambar

Pasi paruppu sambar or moong dal sambar for rice, dosa or idli is an easy and yummy South Indian style sambar made using moong dal or pasi paruppu (yellow mung beans) which can be prepared so quickly and easily.

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Kanji Payar Recipe Kerala Style (Rice Soup)

Kanji and payar (rice soup served with mung beans, cowpeas etc) is a very traditional South Indian Kerala style light dinner.

Kerala style kanji is usually prepared using Kerala matta rice which is a kind of parboiled reddish brown rice, but here I am using white basmati rice for the ease of preparation and also because it is more easily available to me.

This is vegetarian and vegan as well, and also it is very easy to prepare, light, healthy and delicious!

We can either prepare the rice soup using a rice cooker, a pot or pan, or using a pressure cooker or instant pot.

I will have instructions for both pot (or pan) and pressure cooker recipes for rice soup below.

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Cherupayar Curry Kerala Style Recipe

Cherupayar curry Kerala style recipe with coconut is a simple, delicious and easy Kerala style green mung bean curry or green gram curry which is prepared using green grams (also known as cherupayar or pachai payaru) in South India. This can be enjoyed as a side dish with rice, kanji (Kerala style rice soup), puttu (Kerala breakfast item) etc.

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Parippu Curry – Kerala Style Coconut Moong Dal Curry

Kerala parippu curry is easy to prepare, quick, delicious and healthy and it goes great with rice for a simple vegetarian lunch or dinner.

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Moong Dal Rice Recipe With Coconut

Easy one pot, kid friendly, south Indian style yellow moong dal rice with coconut and spices is so easy to make and delicious too. Enjoy with any of your favorite vegetarian curry, coconut, chutney or pickles.

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Brown Rice Kitchari Recipe With Coconut And Green Moong Dal

Brown rice kitchari with green moong dal is so easy to make and tastes yummy and filling too.

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As I mentioned above, mung beans is very nutritious, naturally gluten free, protein rich and has a lot of health benefits.

You can read more about the health benefits of mung beans here.

Hope you found this collection of mung bean recipes helpful in making new healthy & delicious dinner recipes for yourself, your friends and your family.

I will keep adding more recipes to the collection, if I make more dishes using mung beans!