How to Prepare Anko (sweet red bean paste)

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Making Sweet Red Bean Paste (Anko) from scratch is easier than you think. You only need azuki beans, sugar, water, and salt! Here, I'll show you the two varieties: Tsubuan (chunky paste) and Koshian (fine paste).

Recipe of Anko (sweet red bean paste)

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook anko (sweet red bean paste) using 2 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Anko (sweet red bean paste):

1. Make ready 1 1/2 cup sugar
2. Take 1 cup Red Beans

It is a paste made with Azuki (red beans) and sugar. It is used in a lot of different forms of dessert in Japan. It could be used as is in cakes like Dorayaki A lot of Japanese sweet confectionery artisans have devoted their lives to Anko making. Some of the Anko desserts they make have impressively.

Instructions

Steps to make Anko (sweet red bean paste):

1. Put red beans in a pot with 2-3 cups of water. Let boil for 5 minutes and discard water.
2. In a clean pot, place red beans and 2-3 cups of water, cover, and let it simmer at low heat for 1 1/2 to 2 hours (add more water as needed). The beans should now be very soft, easily crushed between fingers.
3. Discard water again, put soft beans back in the pot with sugar at medium high heat and constantly stir and mix about 10 minutes until forming a paste that looks shiny but still loose. Immediately transfer the paste to a container.

Used in East Asian cuisines, red bean paste, or anko (餡子) has a sweet flavor similar to sweet potatoes and a chewy, almost creamy texture. Only two ingredients are needed to make red bean paste - sugar and adzuki beans. This is an easy recipe for tsubushian anko. Among those bean pastes, Sweet Red Bean Paste made with azuki beans is by far the most commonly known Anko. Two Types of Sweet Red Bean Pastes.

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