Sweet Beans Paste (Anko)
Sweet Beans Paste (Anko)

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Sweet Beans Paste (Anko) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sweet Beans Paste (Anko) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Anko (sweet red bean paste) Recipe. Sometimes known as An (餡), Anko (餡子, あんこ) is a Japanese sweet red bean paste made from azuki beans. It is the most common filling used in many Japanese sweets.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet beans paste (anko) using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Beans Paste (Anko):
  1. Prepare 2 cups red beans (azuki)
  2. Take 1.5 cups sugar
  3. Take 1/2 tsp salt
  4. Prepare liberal amount of water

Tsubu-an contains skins of azuki beans. Strictly speaking, the term an can refer to almost any sweet, edible, mashed paste, with azukian (小豆餡) referring specifically to the paste made with red beans, although without qualifiers red beans are assumed. Anko (餡子,あんこ), or sometimes we call it An (餡, あん), is sweet red bean paste made from azuki beans. Chunky Red Bean Paste - Tsubu-an (つぶ餡, つぶあん) Sweet Red Bean Paste (Anko) is a hugely popular Japanese treat.

Instructions to make Sweet Beans Paste (Anko):
  1. Left: red beans, right: black pepper
  2. Wash the red beans.
  3. Put them and enough water to cover in a pot. I used a pressure cooker to save cooking time.
  4. Heat the pot until it comes to a boil, uncovered. Skim the foam from the surface.
  5. Add water up to twice the height of beans.
  6. Cover the pot with a lid and heat it until it boils. Cook them for 15 minutes with a pressure. In case you don't have a pressure cooker, simmer the beans for about 45 minutes until they become soft.
  7. When the pressure cooker cools down, open the lid and add salt and sugar. Simmer them over low heat for about 5 minutes to reduce its broth with mixing. The texture of anko becomes thicker.
  8. Store it in a jar and it will last for about a week in a fridge. You can eat anko with mochi, toast and so on.
  9. You can use anko for Dorayaki ingredients. - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/6418046-japanese-pan-cake-with-anko-dorayaki

Usually paired with delicious chewy Rice Flour Dumplings (Dango), you can also pop it on top of your favourite cakes or ice cream. Better yet, pair with matcha green tea ice cream for a truly Japanese experience. The recipe for making your own anko sweet bean paste is as follows. Anko or an (餡) as it is sometimes called, is a sweet paste that comes in red, green and many shades in between. Anko is typically made from azuki beans which have been boiled, mixed with sugar and then mashed and thickened into a paste.

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