Soak the adzuki beans overnight, then cook for 10 minutes after boiling and boil with sugar for 1 hour over low heat with a low boil, then drain the water and boil until thick. If there is no time to soak, cook the adzuki for 1,5 hours.
How to cook anko
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Adzuki beans – 250 grams
Sugar – 1,5 cups
Salt – 1 teaspoon of salt
How to cook anko: 1 way
1. Put the adzuki beans in a saucepan, pour cold water in a ratio of 1: 2 (for 1 cup of beans 2 cups of water) and put on a low heat.
2. After boiling, cook the beans for 45 minutes.
3. Add 1,5 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon salt and dissolve with stirring.
4. Cover the pan with a lid and cook the adzuki and sugar for 45 minutes.
5. Rub the beans through a sieve 1 or more times depending on the desired consistency.
How to cook anko: 2 way
1. Place the adzuki beans in a saucepan and add water.
2. Salt the beans and cook for 45 minutes after boiling under a closed lid.
3. Rub the adzuki through a sieve, removing the dense shell of the beans and leaving only the flesh.
4. Add sugar and salt to the adzuki, mix and rub through a sieve again.
How to cook anko deliciously
Anko, also known as adzuki paste, ogura, hundosha and sweet bean paste, is a Chinese-made dessert. In Russia, that would be the name of bean jam.
To prepare anko, you need a special kind of beans – angular beans, otherwise called adzuki or angular veigna.
For the preparation of fillings for sweet pastries, the 2nd method of boiling anko is used, so that the filling is the softest (without inclusions of the shell). Sugar is also added to the anko for extra softness.
Ideally, use Japanese johakuto white sugar to make anko.
Anko is used in the preparation of many dishes in China, Japan, Korea, imparting moderate sweetness or density to them.
In the anime television series, Naruto is called the character has a name – Anko Mitarashi after the name of his favorite treat.
The cost of products for making anko pasta is 170 rubles. (on average in Moscow for July 2019).