Tsubu-An Sweet Bean Paste

Tsubu an sweet bean paste – recipe with photo, Japanese cuisine
Rating: 4.4 Votes: 19
Cooking Time:
1 hour
Recipe Yield:
400 g
Difficulty:
Medium recipe

Tsubu an sweet bean paste – a Japanese cuisine recipe, from this pasta they cook the filling for Mochi cakes, spread it on toast, and so on. Cooking a paste from adzuki soybeans, dark burgundy. The taste of the pasta is very interesting and unusual, has a slightly nutty flavor. The Japanese culinary masters probably did not know that pasta tsubushi an would conquer almost the entire east. Bean paste sweets can be found in both Chinese and Korean cuisine.

Recipe Ingredients

Adzuki Beans 200 g
Sugar 200 g
Salt 1 pinch

Cooking Recipe

To cook a Japanese cuisine recipe tsubushi an sweet bean paste, pour the beans with plenty of water, put on fire and bring to a boil. When the water boils, fold the beans onto a sieve and let the water drain. Then transfer the beans to a saucepan, pour in 3 glasses of water and set aside for a day to swell. After a while, without draining the water, put the beans on the fire and cook until the beans become soft. Periodically add water to the beans and stir.

When the beans are cooked, add sugar, and, stirring, crush the beans with a wooden spoon. Do not drain the water from the beans. In tsudusi-an paste add salt and use a pestle or blender to grind the beans into a homogeneous mass.

Pour the pasta into a saucepan and place over low heat. Without ceasing to interfere with a wooden spatula, evaporate the paste to a plastic state. The paste should darken slightly and lag behind the sides of the pan. Various sweets are cooked from pasta; it is used as a filling in rice cakes.