Red Bean Paste

Name: Red Bean Paste
Cook time: 240 min
Yield: 1 servings

Ogura Toast (Toast with Sweet Red Bean Paste) ? Photo by Naotake Murayama from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Red bean paste (in simplified Chinese: ???, in traditional Chinese: ???, Pinyin: h�ngd�ush?, meaning "red bean sand", due to its texture) is a sweet paste used for many things in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cuisine. It is made from mashed adzuki beans (known as red beans in Chinese), mixed with sugar. A range of texture from coarse and gritty to fine and smooth is possible. For a coarse paste, boil the beans for less time and mash by hand. For a fine paste, boil for longer and use a blender to mash the beans.

Cooking time: 240 minutes
Servings: 1

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