Sweet Azuki Bean Pie Recipes

ANKO (SWEET RED BEAN PASTE)

Steps:

• Place beans in a saucepan and cover with 2 cups water; bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain and discard water.
• Place drained beans in a clean saucepan and cover with 2 to 3 cups water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover the saucepan, and simmer, adding more water as needed, until beans are soft and can be crushed between your fingers, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Drain beans and discard water.
• Stir beans and sugar together in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until sugar melts and beans form a loose, shiny paste, about 10 minutes. Immediately transfer the paste to a container to cool. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.

SWEET RED BEAN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F and place the pie crust on a rimmed baking sheet.
• Puree the beans, butter, sugar, vanilla, milk and eggs in a food processor until smooth.
• Add the allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, tapioca starch and rolled oats and process until smooth and the oats are finely minced. Mixture will be fluid.
• Pour into the pie shell.
• Sprinkle with pecans, if using.
• Place the pie in the oven and bake on the middle rack for 12 minutes.
• Reduce the temperature to 350F and move the pie to the lowest rack of the oven.
• Bake for 30 minutes, covering the pie with foil after 20 minutes if it's browning too much.
• When done, the filling will be completely set.
• Cool completely to room temperature, then chill overnight before serving.

NO FAIL BEAN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Place pie crusts into 9-inch pie dishes.
• In a food processor, place the navy beans, evaporated milk, melted butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, and egg yolks; pulse the mixture a few times, then process until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour the filling into the prepared pie crusts.
• Bake at 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake until the filling is set and the crust is golden brown, an additional 35 minutes. Cool before slicing. Eat warm or cold. Refrigerate leftovers.

SWEET AZUKI BEAN SOUP WITH MOCHI

Steps:

• Soak azuki beans overnight.
• Boil azuki beans in large pot for 5 minutes. Drain and rinse and put back in pot.
• Add the 6 cups of water and the salt to azuki beans and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 hours or until beans are soft, occasionally skimming the scum on the top. (This scum can make it bitter so try to remove as much as possible.
• While the beans are cooking, prepare the mochi.
• Put the glutinous rice flour and granulated sugar in a bowl, add water slowly to flour and knead it. Add water until the dough is soft, but still holds its shape.
• Form the dough into ping pong sized balls.
• Boil water in another pot and put dough balls into the boiling water and reduce to gentle boil. Mochi is done when it floats to the top. Set aside the mochi until the soup is ready.
• After the beans are soft, add the vanilla and crystallised sugar according to your taste. Cook for another 15 minutes or until the sugar is dissolved, and the beans are flavoured.
• Put the mochi in a bowl and cover with the bean soup.