Tau Sar Pneah

Name: Tau Sar Pneah
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Malaysian
Ingredients: 3 cups flour, for pastry; 1.5 cups mung beans, cooked and mashed; 1/2 cup sugar; 150g shortening

Tau Sar Pneah/tow sar pnee-ah/

Also known as: Mung Bean Biscuit

About this dish

A flaky, biscuit-like pastry filled with sweet mung bean paste, a Penang specialty.

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Ingredients

🌾3 cups flour, for pastry

🫘1.5 cups mung beans, cooked and mashed

🍬1/2 cup sugar

🧈150g shortening

Method

Serves 4

Make a laminated dough by folding shortening into a flour dough repeatedly.

Mix mashed mung bean with sugar for the filling.

Wrap portions of dough around the mung bean filling.

Flatten slightly and bake at 180°C (350°F) until golden and flaky.

Cool before serving.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Tau sar pneah is a specialty of Penang, a flaky biscuit filled with sweet and savory mung bean paste.

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