It's hot, all kinds of desserts on the street are selling hot, and there's always something to eat when you're shopping. Rest at home today, just make your own "coconut red bean cake" to relieve hunger. This dessert is very simple to make and requires a special ingredient --- agar. Let's get to know agar.
Agar, scientific name agar gum, also known as watercress, is a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed, is currently one of the most widely used seaweed gum in the world. It is widely used in the food industry, agar used in food can significantly change the quality of food, its characteristics: with coagulation, stability, can form complexes with some substances and other physical and chemical properties, can be used as thickener, coagulant, suspension agent, emulsifier, preservative and stabilizer. Such as we often eat grains of orange and jelly, pastries, soups and so on.
Prepare the ingredients: red beans, coconut water, agar, and you can start making this dessert.
【Coconut red bean cake】
Ingredients: red beans coconut juice agar rock sugar
Production: 1. Wash the red beans and soak them for more than three hours;
'2 Pour the soaked red beans into a pressure cooker, cook them, and stir well with an appropriate amount of rock sugar while hot;
3. Soak the agar for half an hour;
4. Take out two tablespoons of cooked red bean soup and put it in the pot, add the soaked agar, stir while heating, until the agar is all melted;
5. Remove the cooked red beans and put them into the freshly melted agar soup, stirring well;
6. Prepare a mold, pour the mixed red beans into the mold, and refrigerate it in the refrigerator for half an hour after it is completely cool;
7. Then pour coconut water into the pot, add the soaked agar; heat over low heat and stir continuously until the agar is completely melted, add rock sugar and stir well;
9. Take out the red beans in the refrigerator, pour the coconut juice into the red bean mold taken out of the refrigerator after cooling, and then put them in the refrigerator for more than half an hour to set the shape;
Once fully set, remove from the refrigerator, cut into small pieces, and garnish with boiled goji berries on top.
Notes: 1. 2. Soaking red beans for a few hours can shorten the cooking time and save energy; 3. Stir the agar until it is all melted; 4. The amount of sugar is increased or decreased according to your own requirements; The red beans should be cooled before being cooled by adding coconut water to cool, so that they can be divided into two layers to be beautiful.