Red bean paste
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Red bean paste (traditional Chinese: ่ฑๆฒ/็ด
่ฑๆฒ; simplified Chinese: ่ฑๆฒ/็บข่ฑๆฒ; Japanese: ใใใ or ๅฐ่ฑ้คก; Korean: ํฅ์) or red bean jam,cite-ref-hiso3-1-0[1] also called adzuki bean paste or anko (a Japanese word),cite-ref-2[2] is a paste made of red beans (also called "adzuki beans"), used in East Asian cuisine. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans, then mashing or grinding them. At this stage, the paste can be sweetened or left as it is. The color of the paste is usually dark red, which comes from the husk of the beans. In Korean cuisine, the adzuki beans (often the black variety) can also be husked prior to cooking, resulting in a white paste.cite-ref-kosfost-3-0[3]cite-ref-skld-4-0[4] It is also possible to remove the husk by sieving after cooking, but before sweetening, resulting in a red paste that is smoother and more homogeneous.
Contents
โข Etymology
โข Types
โข Chinese
โข Japanese
โข Korean
โข Uses
โข Chinese
โข Japanese
โข Korean
โข See also
โข References
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Etymology
In Japanese, a number of names are used to refer to red bean paste; these include an (้คก), anko (้คกๅญ) and ogura (ๅฐๅ). Strictly speaking, the term an can refer to almost any sweet, edible, mashed paste, although without qualifiers red beans are assumed, while azukian (ๅฐ่ฑ้คก) refers specifically to the paste made with red beans. Other common forms of an include shiroan (็ฝ้คก; "white bean paste"), made from navy or other white beans, green beans and kurian (ๆ ้คก), made from chestnuts.
Similarly, the Chinese term dรฒushฤ (่ฑๆฒ; 'bean paste'), applies to red bean paste when used without qualifiers, although hรณngdรฒushฤ (็ด
่ฑๆฒ) explicitly means "red bean paste."
In Korean, pat (ํฅ, Vigna angularis) contrasts with kong (์ฝฉ, "bean"), rather than being considered a type of it. Kong ("beans") without qualifiers usually means soybeans. As so (์) means "filling", the word patso (ํฅ์) means "pat filling", with unsweetened dark-red paste as its prototype. Dan (๋จ, "sweet") attached to patso makes danpat-so (๋จํฅ์), the sweetened red bean paste, which is often called danpat (๋จํฅ; "sweet pat"). Geopi (๊ฑฐํผ, "hulled, skinned, peeled, shelled, etc.")cite-ref-5[5] attached to pat makes geopipat (๊ฑฐํผํฅ), the dehulled red beanscite-ref-kosfost-3-1[3]cite-ref-skld-4-1[4] and the white paste made of geopipat is called geopipat-so (๊ฑฐํผํฅ์).
Types
Red bean paste is graded according to its consistency, sweetness, and color.
Chinese
In Chinese cuisine, the most common types are:cite-ref-taste-hk-1-6-0[6]
Mashed
Adzuki beans are boiled with sugar and mashed. The paste is smooth with bits of broken beans and bean husk. Depending on the intended texture, the beans can be vigorously or lightly mashed. Some unmashed beans can also be added back into the bean paste for additional texture. This is the most common and popular type of red bean paste eaten in Chinese confections. It can also be eaten on its own or in sweet soups.
Smooth
Adzuki beans are boiled without sugar, mashed, and diluted into a slurry. The slurry is then strained through a sieve to remove the husk, filtered, and squeezed dry using cheesecloth. Although the dry paste can be directly sweetened and used, oil, either vegetable oil or lard, is usually used to cook the dry paste and improve its texture and mouth feel. Smooth bean paste is mainly used as a filling for Chinese pastries.
Japanese
In Japanese cuisine and confectionery, the most common types are:
โข Tsubuan (็ฒ้คก): Whole red beans are boiled with sugar but otherwise untreated.
โข Tsubushian (ๆฝฐใ้คก): The beans are mashed after boiling.
โข Koshian (ๆผใ้คก): The beans are passed through a sieve to remove bean skins. This is the most common type.
โข Sarashian (ๆใ้คก): The beans are dried and reconstituted with water.
โข Ogura-an (ๅฐๅ้คก): Named after Mt Ogura in western Kyoto, this is a mix of koshian and tsubuan.
Korean
In Korean cuisine and confectionery, the most common types are:
โข Patso (ํฅ์), dark-red paste made by boiling and then mashing or grinding red beans. The bean skins may or may not be removed by sifting the paste through a sieve to make the paste smoother.
โข Danpat (๋จํฅ) or danpat-so (๋จํฅ์), sweetened red bean paste, made by adding honey or sugar when making patso. The bean skins are often removed to make the paste smoother.
โข Geopipat-so (๊ฑฐํผํฅ์), white paste made by boiling dehulled red beans, and then mashing or grinding them.
โข Tongpat (ํตํฅ), whole beans as filling, not mashed.
Uses
Chinese
Red bean paste is used in many Chinese dishes, such as:
โข Red bean soup (Chinese: ็ด
่ฑๆนฏ/็ด
่ฑๆฒ; pinyin: hรณng dรฒu tฤng / hรณng dรฒu shฤ): In some recipes, red bean paste with more water added to form a tong sui, or thick, sweet soup. It is often cooked and eaten with tangyuan and lotus seeds. This is almost always a dessert.
โข Tangyuan (ๆนฏๅ; tฤng yรบan): Glutinous rice balls filled with sweet fillings such as red bean paste and boiled in plain or sweetened water.
โข Mooncakes (ๆ้ค
; yuรจ bวng): A baked pastry consisting of thin dough surrounding a filling. The filling is traditionally made from various ingredients, including mashed lotus seeds, red bean paste, or other fillings. The texture of this filling is quite similar to straight red bean paste. It is most commonly eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
โข Bฤozi (่ฑๆฒๅ
; dรฒu shฤ bฤo): Steamed leavened bread filled with a variety of savoury or sweet fillings.
โข Jiฤn dui (็
ๅ ): Fried pastry made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes filled with red bean paste.
โข Red bean cake (็บข่ฑ็ณ; hรณng dรฒu gฤo): It is a type of Asian cake with a sweet red bean paste filling. It is made primarily with adzuki beans.
โข Red bean pancake
Japanese
Red bean paste is used in many Japanese sweets.
โข Anpan, a sweet bun filled with red bean paste.
โข An-doughnut, a variety of doughnut that uses red bean paste as its filling.
โข Daifuku, a confection consisting of a small round rice cake stuffed with red bean paste.
โข Anko dango, a dumpling made from rice flour that is sometimes topped or filled with red bean paste.
โข Imagawayaki, a dessert filled with the paste. Also known as ลban-yaki.
โข Manjลซ, a steamed cake filled with red bean paste.
โข Oshiruko or Zenzai, adzuki bean soup, commonly served with rice cake.
โข Sakuramochi, a Japanese sweet consisting of sweet pink-colored rice cake (mochi) with a red bean paste (anko) center, and wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom (sakura) leaf.
โข Taiyaki, a fish-shaped cake stuffed with red bean paste.
โข Yลkan, a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar.
Korean
Red bean paste is used in various Korean snack foods and desserts, including:
โข Baram-tteok, a type of tteok filled with white geopipat-so.
โข Bungeo-ppang, a fish-shaped pastry filled with sweet danpat-so.
โข Chalbori-ppang, two small and sweet pancakes wrapping around sweet danpat-so.
โข Chapssal doughnut, a glutinous rice doughnut filled with sweet danpat-so.
โข Gyeongdan, a rice ball cake filled with sweet danpat-so.
โข Hodu-gwaja, a walnut-shaped cookie filled with sweet danpat-so.
โข Hoppang, a warm fluffy pastry filled with sweet danpat-so or sweet nokdu-so (mung bean paste).
โข Hwangnam-ppang, a pastry with a chrysanthemum imprinted on the top, filled with sweet danpat-so.
โข Jjinppang, a warm fluffy pastry filled with unsweetened patso, usually with the skins of the red beans.
โข Kkulppang, a sweet pastry covered with sweet danpat-so and covered with corn syrup.
โข Patbingsu, a type of shaved ice.
โข Songpyeon, a type of tteok filled with various fillings including unsweetened patso, sweetened (danpat-so), or white (geopipat-so).
โข Ttongppang, a poo-shaped pastry filled with sweet danpat-so.
See also
โข Adzuki bean
โข Black bean paste
โข Sweet bean paste
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References
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