Homemade red bean paste

Overview

It’s Chinese New Year, and red bean paste is an indispensable ingredient for making snacks or glutinous rice balls. The ones you buy must contain preservatives, and we have no way of knowing how much pigments and other health-harming things are added, so we might as well make it ourselves. It’s delicious and reassuring, and it’s definitely the best red beans. In one word: pure!

Tags

• snacks
• ice products
• brown sugar
• butter
• red bean

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 First wash the red adzuki beans and soak them in water for a few hours to let the beans swell so they can be cooked easily

   

2. 2 Add water to the soaked beans just enough to cover them. After boiling for 2-3 minutes, turn off the heat. Do not open the lid and simmer for 20 minutes. Just open it. If it looks like they are not yet cooked, you can boil again. Then continue to turn off the heat and simmer for another 20 minutes. The beans must be rotten. A way to save fire and trouble.

   

3. 3 Put the cooked beans into a food processor and blend into a paste

   

4. 4 Then pour some water on the muslin cloth

   

5. 5 Put it into a wok and stir-fry until the water is almost evaporated, then add brown sugar,

   

6. 6 Fry until the sugar is completely melted. The standard for the looseness of the fried bean paste is: it can be scattered when picked up

   

7. 7 But if you squeeze it, it will form a ball. This kind of bean paste is suitable for making snacks, bread and the like.

   

8. 8 If you feel that the bean paste is too dry and you want a moist texture, then add some olive oil or butter to the bean paste and continue to stir-fry, and you will have a very moist bean paste. This kind of bean paste filling is suitable for making glutinous rice balls and bean paste buns, and it tastes very moist. Just adjust the amount of oil according to your needs and adjust the dryness and humidity of the stuffing.