Simple Way to Make Sweet Beans Paste (Anko)

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Recipe of Sweet Beans Paste (Anko)

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet beans paste (anko) using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Beans Paste (Anko):

1. Prepare 2 cups red beans (azuki)
2. Get 1.5 cups sugar
3. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
4. Make ready liberal amount of water

Instructions

Steps to make Sweet Beans Paste (Anko):

1. Left: red beans, right: black pepper
2. Wash the red beans.
3. Put them and enough water to cover in a pot. I used a pressure cooker to save cooking time.
4. Heat the pot until it comes to a boil, uncovered. Skim the foam from the surface.
5. Add water up to twice the height of beans.
6. Cover the pot with a lid and heat it until it boils. Cook them for 15 minutes with a pressure. In case you don't have a pressure cooker, simmer the beans for about 45 minutes until they become soft.
7. When the pressure cooker cools down, open the lid and add salt and sugar. Simmer them over low heat for about 5 minutes to reduce its broth with mixing. The texture of anko becomes thicker.
8. Store it in a jar and it will last for about a week in a fridge. You can eat anko with mochi, toast and so on.
9. You can use anko for Dorayaki ingredients. - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/6418046-japanese-pan-cake-with-anko-dorayaki

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