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Tsubuan

Sweet anko (red bean) paste

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Recipe video made by Ryan Published on 03/21/2018, viewed by 2299

These sweetened red beans are commonly used in Japanese sweets.

What you will need

200g azuki beans

Water as needed

200g sugar

How to cook

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et aside to soak for at least 8 hours.

Wash and sort your beans. Add enough water to cover by at least 2 inches. Set aside to soak for at least 8 hours.

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Strain the beans and rinse them well.

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boil.

Transfer the beans back to a pot and add enough water to cover. Bring to a boil.

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Once the water comes to a boil, strain the beans once more.

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mer the beans for 1 hour, adding water every so often to keep the beans completely submerged.

Return the beans to the pot. Add water to cover, and bring to a simmer. Simmer the beans for 1 hour, adding water every so often to keep the beans completely submerged.

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When the beans are cooked through and tender, stir in the sugar.

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 when you can draw a line through the beans with your spoon, and the line remains visible for a couple of seconds. Stir in a pinch of salt and chill.

Continue to simmer until the liquid begins to thicken, stirring often. Stop when you can draw a line through the beans with your spoon, and the line remains visible for a couple of seconds. Stir in a pinch of salt and chill.

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hed red bean paste). I actually used a mason jar to mash mine.

Mash roughly with a potato masher or a wooden spoon to make tsubushian (mashed red bean paste). I actually used a mason jar to mash mine.

Tsubushian

Anko paste is a simple paste of sweetened red beans that appears in a lot of Japanese desserts. There are 3 varieties or stages referring to the texture or basically just how much you squished the beans. Tsubuan refers to whole unmashed bean paste. Tsubushian is a lightly mashed bean paste as in the image above. Koshian is mashed and sieved bean paste with no visible bean chunks.

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For an even more refined paste, press through a sieve.

Koshian

Anko paste is a simple paste of sweetened red beans that appears in a lot of Japanese desserts. There are 3 varieties or stages referring to the texture, or basically just how much you squished the beans. Tsubuan refers to whole unmashed bean paste. Tsubushian is a lightly mashed bean paste as in the image above. Koshian is mashed and sieved bean paste with no visible bean chunks.

How to cook

Asian

Beans

Japanese

Baked Beans

Paste

Sweet

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