The winter solstice is coming, and I originally wanted to cook some red bean paste to cook rice balls to eat, but I was stumped by boiling red bean paste. Originally, I boiled a pot of red beans with great interest. However, when I lifted the lid, it turned out to be a pot of red bean soup!
"Could it be that there is too much water?" I snickered in my heart, trying to find the flaw. On the second attempt, I put less water. Looking forward to the moment when the red bean transforms, I saw the heat rising in the pot coming to my nose. I couldn't help but mutter—"Is it too hot this time?" Sure enough, when I lifted the lid of the pot in frustration, a strange sight appeared again - the red beans were burned! The red beans that could have been boiled into sweet red bean paste were reduced to ashes, leaving no trace of value.
This process made me feel powerless and wanted to give up. I believe that there are many people who are troubled by boiled red bean paste. So, after looking up the recipes and experimenting with them many times, I finally succeeded.
How much water to boil red bean paste, how long to boil? After reading it, you will understand that you can boil red bean paste in half an hour. Let's take a look~
Red beans or red adzuki beans for boiling red bean paste?
After many tests, it has been proved that red beans and red adzuki beans are different, and the taste of the red bean paste made is also very different. Adzuki beans are round, red adzuki beans are oblong, and practice has proven that red bean paste made from red adzuki beans is more delicious.
Prepare 2 catties of red beans, then soak them directly in water, soak them for about 2 hours, let the red beans fully absorb the water, soften their shells, and it is easy to cook red bean paste.
How much water do you add to boil red beans?
When boiling red beans, I often have trouble not knowing how much water to add. Sometimes I add too much, and I cook it into red bean soup, and sometimes I add too little, and I can't cook the bean paste when I paste the pot. In fact, there is one of the best ways to measure the water level with a ruler. It only needs to be 3-5 cm higher than the red bean paste, when there are few red beans, it only needs to be more than 3 cm, and when there are many red beans, it needs to be more than 5 cm.
How long does it take to boil red beans?
Boiling red bean paste requires a pressure cooker, whether it is an ordinary pressure cooker or an electric pressure cooker, under the premise that the red beans have been soaked, after the pressure cooker is steamed, simmer for 30 minutes. And after turning off the heat, simmer for about 5 minutes. After the pressure cooker is deflated, open the lid of the pot again, you can see that the red beans are clearly grained, and you can't see any excess water in the pot.
Stir-fried red bean paste:
Put the boiled red beans in a food processor and stir into a delicate bean paste. Then pour it into a non-stick pan, add some sugar and corn oil, and stir-fry over medium-low heat. Add the corn oil in parts, fry each time until it is completely absorbed, and then add the corn oil until the bean paste is fried until it is set and not sticky.