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Makes
about 2 cups of paste. Without considerations halved or doubled.
Writer Notes
A straightforward recipe for this traditional Asian dessert ingredient. Need to you suggest to make use of this paste in something different than mooncakes (steamed buns or mochi, to illustrate) you possibly can decrease the quantity of corpulent, and use vegetable oil in procedure to a solid corpulent. —Cynthia Chen McTernan
Substances
1 cup
crimson beans or azuki beans, dry
2/3 to 3/4 cups
sugar (to kind)
6 tablespoons
coconut oil, or different solid corpulent
Directions
- Soak the crimson beans in a big selection of water for on the least 2 to three hours and ideally overnight, guaranteeing beans are submerged fully by on the least 1 to 2 inches of water. Rinse and drain.
- Subsequent, combine the beans with 3 extra cups of water in a pot and lift it to a boil over excessive heat. Once the water begins to boil, decrease the warmth to low and let the beans simmer for roughly 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Because the water boils down, that you may well have to add merely sufficient water to preserve the beans submerged. (For me, I added 1/2 cup after about Half-hour of boiling, then one other 1/2 cup every 15 to 20 minutes except the beans had been performed.) There is no have to wander the beans — ethical preserve them submerged in water. (Impress: Need to you’re concerned about any grime or imperfections on the beans, blanch them ahead of this step by bringing the water and beans to a boil, at as soon as draining and rinsing the beans, then persevering with with Step 2.)
- After an hour, test a bean by mashing it with a spoon or your fingers. If it splits as two halves, preserve cooking. If it smushes with out grief, it’s performed simmering.
- Drain the beans, then add them to a meals processor along with the sugar, and path of on excessive except comfortable. (Need to you create no longer dangle a meals processor or blender, ethical drain the water, add the sugar on to the pot, and preserve cooking over low heat, mashing as that you may well mashed potatoes. It could well be ethical elegant that procedure, too.)
- Pour the paste into the pan and add the corpulent of your option. If utilizing the paste for steamed buns or mochi, disappear for 1 to 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. For mooncakes, use a solid corpulent: I aged coconut oil, nonetheless many outdated mooncake fillings use lard. Hurry except the corpulent is included, then cook over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring consistently, except the paste turns into luminous and kinds a snug dough that sticks to the spoon in a single mass.
- Take some distance from heat and chill except ready to make use of.
