Red Beans Soup taken by peachpurple
Red Bean Soup is one of my favorite Chinese dessert soup that my
mom used to make for our family to drink during cold weather.
This sweet dessert recipe is made from Red Beans which is also
known as Red Adzuki Beans, sweetened with palm sugar and rock
sugar with aromatic fragrance from the addition of screwpine
leaves ( Pandan Leaves ).
It is a wonderful and comfort beverage and meal that you will love
as a complimentary dessert after morning breakfast or lunch.
I remembered so well when I cam back from school during my
primary school years, smelling the fragrant Red Bean Soup that
had flowed throughout the household that lead me to the kitchen,
simply had the urge to open up the lid of the soup pot, to smell the
aromatic smell.
My mom did taught me how to make this Red Bean Soup before
she had stroke and I was fortunate to had jot down the recipe.
What you need to prepare
It is a combination of raw red beans, ginger, screwpine leaves
( compulsory), palm sugar, rock sugar, coconut milk and sago.
How long would it take
Since red bean soup uses raw beans, you will need to simmer it for
3 hours with a gas stove.
Hence, it would be wise to use a slow cooker to simmer it from
morning to afternoon at low speed.
Otherwise, you could use a pressure cooker to speed up the process
of boiling the sweet dessert soup in 30 minutes.
You can buy all the ingredients for the red bean soup at any wet
market or supermarket.
Coconut milk
If you want to produce a fragrant coconut milk, use raw grated
coconut which you can buy from grocery shop.
1 coconut could make 4 thin coconut milk and 1 cup of thick
coconut milk as you squeeze them out with your bare hands.
Otherwise, you could buy a small box of coconut milk but it won’t
taste as sweet as the original.
Alternatively, you could resort to a cheaper source, buy 1 packet of
coconut powder, mix with 200ml of warm water but it may taste a
little bland.
I would recommend you to go for the fresh grated coconut and you
will be pleased with the delicious Red Bean Soup that blows your
mind away with delight.
Here is the recipe for Red Bean Soup.
Ingredients required
l 300g red beans
l 2 slices of young ginger
l 3 screwpine leaves-tied to a knot together
l 2 tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar
l 3 medium rock sugar
l 4 cups thin coconut milk
l 1 cup thick coconut milk
l ( coconut milk extracted from 1 grated coconut )
l 1 tbsp of sago
Method:
1. Boil the red beans in 4 cups of water until the beans expand.
2. Add in the ginger, screwpine leaves and sago.
3. Add in palm sugar and rock sugar.
4. Stir until the sugar dissolves.
5. Put in the thin coconut milk and bring to boil.
6. Pour in the thick coconut milk. Stir constantly.
Don’t let the soup burnt.
7. When the sago beans become transparent ( not white ) and
shiny, remove the screwpine leaves.
8. Scoop up a little red beans, test out the tendency.
9. If the red beans are soft, the sweet dessert soup is ready.
10. Serve hot in small bowls.
11. Yield: 4 persons
sago seeds by wikipedia
What is Sago
Sago is a starch extracted from the centre of the palm stem.
The shape is alike mini pearl, white circle and smooth.
However, when it touches water, it turns moldy and sticky.
Screwpine leaves taken by peachpurple
What is Screwpine Leaves
The original name of this plant is “Daun Pandan” which is
easily grown in Malaysia and other countries under tropical
weather. Screwpine leaves whether bruised, boiled or extracted
juice produce fragrant smell which enhanced the taste of
meats and sweet dessert soups.
Red beans soup before adding coconut milk taken by peachpurple
What is red bean?
Red beans are also called as “Azuki beans” .
They are dark red in color, small seeds in size which is
different from kidney beans.
What is your favorite sweet dessert soup?
Can you share with us your recipe?
I would love to hear from you soon!
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Wow, looks so good and so yummy too. I feel hungry looking at the photo of this recipe. I salute you peach of your expertise in recipe. I hope you are that slim hehehehe.
Oh I am sure you are going to love this red bean soup.
It is super delicious and filling you are planning to go on a diet plan. The beans are nutritious and with the coconut milk, very full in deed. Thanks for your compliments. I love cooking and baking which is the reason why I share my recipes here and there. Oh don't worry about my weight. 45kg, slim or not?
Yay, very much like this. I plan to buy the ingredients of this and practice cooking hehehe. Wow, you are very slim peach that is because you do not eat rice there .
sis!
I do eat rice everyday, white rice not brown rice.
We have to eat rice daily because it is the staple food in Malaysia.
I am slim because I don't have gall bladder.
Was removed 10 years ago due to gall stones.
So my weight maintained 45kg since then.
Do cook this recipe and let me know soon
That indeed looks delicious and with so many ingredients little wonder that it would taste great too. It is a meal by itself.
yes indeed it is a meal by itself. Taste great if you having toast bread with your favorite jam or fried fritters. This is a common dessert soup among us Asian for tea time snack or morning breakfast.
You can cut down on the sugar, and the coconut milk to have a clear, smooth, light, red bean soup.
Hope that you will enjoy it.
Cheers
@peachpurple I'm not sure how many of these ingredients I could procure here, but I'd sure love to try this recipe, Peachy!
@peachpurple I wish I have the time to make one. In my city, we use these raw beans as an ingredient for a meal. It tastes good when eating a meal with the rest of the family members.
@peachpurple, I tried to cook this recipe and my sister aided me, and the result is superb hehehe, even the children love to eat the beans. Thank you for sharing this recipe, so useful.
Thanxs for the recipe, looks yummy and I'm always up for trying new cooking challenges. :)
Makes me want to try this type of soup. I never had Chinese sou[. Thanks for sharing! I just posted my first one and waiting for my 2nd approval.
Oh this one looks nice! I love to have it as an ice kachang or mixed with other sweetened things in a Filipino dessert called halo-halo :) Yum!
Looks like a delicious recipe!
I will make it at my home very soon because I am fond of cooking self for self not for others. It is a delicious soup. First of all get yourself some red beans, also known as adzuki beans. It's a good idea to get this kind of stuff from a trusted vendor at the wet markets in Hong Kong.
They will usually have superior quality stuff which is reassuring as all beans look the same to me. The wet market vendor I go to is a super grouchy old guy with bushy white eyebrows who growls me whenever I ask a question but his merchandise is pretty good. I guess that's why he growls?
Be sure to soak the red beans properly and then discard the soaking water. This will solve the problem of any, um, "extra air" after consumption of the beans. The traditional red bean dessert recipe also calls for dried tangerine peel , or Chenpi 陳皮, which you can also get at your local wet market. Sometimes you can see these tangerine peels hung in long festive coils from the ceilings of the dried goods shops as they air dry.
These Chenpi are used for many chinese dishes. They have an distinctive woodsy citrusy flavor that improves with age. Actually the aged tangerine peels can get very expensive!