Last week, I attended a gathering and the
theme was soup. Prior to that, I was cracking my head on what to bring
but eventually, I still settle for a sweet soup as I reckon many will bring
savoury.
I love red bean soup (红豆糖水)and red bean
creame (红豆沙), I always look
forward to wedding banquet but usually I am greatly disappointed as it is
usually tooth aching sweet.
This time round, I
decided to challenge myself in making something much more difficult. Thus
I opted for red bean creame.
First you need to cook
the beans till very soft and the most daunting part is to sieve it to remove
the husk and only take in the "沙".
That process
definitely needed arm power to do it. I was happy that I bought a ricer
last year and get to use it now. But the best quality achieved is still
using a sieve and push the mashed bean through it.
I hope Red Bean Creme can consider a soup. LOLz.
600g red bean (soak overnight)
12 cups of water (3 cups, 3 cups, 5-6 cups)
250g lotus seed (soak and remove stem)
Rock sugar to taste
Pandan Leaves
1 small pcs of Dried Orange Peel, soak for 1 hour or soften
Coconut cream for garnish
Glutinous Rice flour mixture (7 tbsp glutinous rice flour with 10 tbsp of water)
Method
Boil red beans with water to a brisk boil. Drain off the water. Repeat another time.
Scrape off the white pits of the orange peel.
Put water into beans again and boil till it becomes soft with the orange peel.
Put it in a blender and blend till a very fine paste. Sieve through a fine sieve. You need to press them through the sieve. Put the sieved red bean back into the water. Discard husk.
Steam lotus seed till semi-soft.
Add lotus seed, pandan leaves, and rock sugar to the red bean soup.
Simmer till the sugar dissolved.
Thicken with glutinous rice flour mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly till red bean creme thickens.
Note: Depending on how creamy you want them to be, dilute them with water accordingly.
soooooo smooooth
ReplyDeletehahaa lots of arm power to get this smooth.
DeleteEdith, I love this! Just had a bowl at CJ restaurant. disappointingly watery:((
ReplyDeleteUsually I look forward to wedding banquet but it is also very sweet.
DeleteHi Edith,This is nice but then a lots of hard labour and arm exercise. :)) Yours look silky smooth.
ReplyDeleteYes it needed lots of arm power using the ricer.
DeleteGot me craving for it now..
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