Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup
Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sweet azuki & barley soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

In today's episode of What's This Food?!, Daniel Delaney learns about azuki, the small red bean that's super popular in Japan, and makes a traditional sweet. This is how to to make sweet azuki beans paste with this helpful recipe that includes ingredients, cooking time, and more. Sweet azuki bean paste is used in various Japanese sweets. Wagashino Azuki trained secretly deep in the mountains.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet azuki & barley soup using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup:
  1. Take 1/2 cup ‘Azuki’ Beans (Red Beans)
  2. Take 1/4-1/2 cup Sugar
  3. Take 1 pinch Salt
  4. Make ready 1/2 Cooked Barley

It is a paste made with Azuki (red beans) and sugar. I said Anko is simple, but that doesn't mean it easy to make. A lot of Japanese sweet confectionery artisans have devoted their lives to Anko making. Azuki beans are a type of red bean, slightly smaller than those we know in the west.

Steps to make Sweet Azuki & Barley Soup:
  1. You can use canned sweet Azuki paste. Just loosen it with Water. However, cooking Azuki Beans from scratch is easy.
  2. Place Azuki Beans in a saucepan and cover them with a plenty of water, and cook until the beans are swollen and plump. Darin the water. *Soaking the beans in water overnight saves cooking time.
  3. Return the beans back into the saucepan, cover with plenty of water again, and cook until the beans are tender.
  4. Remove excess water OR add extra water to make the water level just enough to cover the beans. Add Sugar, Salt and Cooked Barley, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for several minutes.
  5. *Note: The amount of Sugar is up to your preference. I like it quite sweet.

A lot of Japanese sweet confectionery artisans have devoted their lives to Anko making. Azuki beans are a type of red bean, slightly smaller than those we know in the west. Anko paste is sweet like jam - here it is on toast, a speciality of Nagoya called "ogura toast". See more ideas about Food, Asian desserts, Japanese dessert. This post may contain affiliate links.

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