Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans

Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans

Overview

Super simple steps, super simple ingredients, but the result is a versatile and delicious dessert. It can be used for baking, eaten with yogurt and cakes, or eaten directly as a snack. They are all very good choices! Just like my delicious little fat girl, she ate a lot of honey red beans from her small bowl and kept asking me if I wanted to eat. She quickly put them away because it was evening and I didn’t dare to feed her so much... Red bean protein has a high lysine content and should be mixed with cereals to make bean rice or bean porridge. It is usually made into bean paste or used as a pastry ingredient. Red beans are not only delicious food, but also a wonderful medicine for doctors to treat diseases. Red beans are rich in dietary fiber and have good functions of laxative, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and anti-cancer, preventing stones, and strengthening and losing weight. According to traditional Chinese medicine, red beans are sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic. They have the effect of resolving dampness and replenishing the spleen. They are more suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. They are often used in diet therapy for hypertension, atherosclerosis, edema caused by various reasons, as well as for cooling, detoxifying, and stomach strengthening.

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Steps

  1. Wash the red beans and soak them in cold water for a few hours or overnight.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 1

  2. Drain the soaking water from the soaked red beans, pour them into a pot, add two large bowls of water, bring to a boil, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer for about half an hour.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 2

  3. When the beans in the pot swell significantly and the water in the pot becomes significantly reduced, add sugar and stir evenly.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 3

  4. Turn to medium heat and cook until the water in the pot is reduced.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 4

  5. Pour the cooked beans out of the pot, and when they are warm, add an appropriate amount of honey and stir evenly.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 5

  6. Let cool completely, put into a sealable container, refrigerate, and eat as soon as possible.

    Homemade versatile dessert - honey red beans step 6