After boiling, cook the azuki for 45 minutes over low heat, covered with a lid, with a low boil. Alternatively, you can soak the adzuki in the refrigerator overnight before cooking and cook for 20 minutes. Cook azuki in a double boiler for 1,5 hours.
How to cook adzuki
You will need – 1 glass of adzuki, 3 glasses of water
1. Rinse azuki and place in a saucepan.
2. Pour the adzuki with water in a ratio of 1: 3 – for 1 cup of adzuki 3 cups of water.
3. Place the pot of adzuki on a low heat and cover with a lid.
4. Let it boil and cook the adzuki for 45 minutes.
5. Drain the water through a colander, the adzuki is cooked.
How to cook adzuki in a double boiler
1. Put the adzuki into a steamer bowl.
2. Pour water into a steamer pot.
3. Switch on the steamer in working mode.
4. Cook the adzuki in a double boiler for 1,5 hours.
Delicious facts
– Azuki – it an ancient type of beans that became widespread in China in 1000 BC, spread from China to Japan and Korea, and then to the whole world.
– The most common adzuki dark red shadesbut there are also white, black, and speckled adzuki beans.
– Azuki different from ordinary beans with greater softness, it does not need to be soaked and it is cooked at the same time quite quickly. Azuki has a sweetish flavor and nutty aroma.
– If the adzuki is cooked for soft dishes, it must be peeled off.
– It is from the adzuki beans that the Chinese delicacy anko is brewed.
– Calorie value adzuki – 330 kcal / 100 grams.
– Cost adzuki – from 200 rubles / 0,5 kilograms (on average in Moscow for June 2020).
– Adzuki beans are very useful… For vegetarian or fasting meals, adzuki practically replaces meat in nutritional value. In China, adzuki treats some diseases of the genitourinary system. It is believed that with regular use of adzuki, dark bags under the eyes disappear.
– Keep dry adzuki groats in a dry dark place for up to 2 years.