Red Bean Paste
A smooth sweet red bean paste made from soaked red small beans, sugar, and corn oil, cooked until thick and glossy.
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This homemade red bean paste fills the kitchen with a warm, sweet aroma as it slowly simmers and thickens. The result is a smooth, glossy filling that holds its shape perfectly, ready to be used in buns, pastries, or mooncakes.
Ingredients
Red small beans
400g
Fine white sugar
100g
Corn oil
about 60ml
Instructions
1
Step 1
Home-grown red small beans, wash clean
2
Step 2
Add clear water covering the beans by about 2-3 cm, soak for more than 8 hours, let the beans fully soak through
3
Step 3
Wash the soaked beans twice more, put into the electric pressure cooker, add clear water, just level with the beans
4
Step 4
Pressure for 15 minutes, this is the pressed beans
5
Step 5
Add soft white sugar
6
Step 6
Stir evenly, and press into a paste with a spatula
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Step 7
Select any function menu on the electric pressure cooker, turn on the power, do not cover the lid, the pressure cooker will keep heating
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Step 8
Stir the beans while heating, until the water gradually evaporates and the beans start to become thick
9
Step 9
Add corn oil, about 20ml
10
Step 10
Stir until the corn oil is fully absorbed before adding the next time, I added 3 times, totaling about 60ml
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Step 11
Until the red bean filling becomes dry and can easily hold its shape
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Step 12
Finished red bean filling
