Sweet Red Bean Soup (Zenzai)
Sweet Red Bean Soup (Zenzai)

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Zenzai (ぜんざい) is a traditional Japanese dessert soup made with azuki beans. This sweet red bean soup is served hot with mochi (rice cake) or shiratama dango (glutinous rice flour dumplings) inside the soup. Slightly sweet, with a gentle fragrance from the red beans, the dessert soup has the instant magic of warming up one's soul. Great recipe for Sweet Red Bean Soup (Zenzai).

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet red bean soup (zenzai) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Red Bean Soup (Zenzai):
  1. Prepare 250 grams Dried adzuki beans
  2. Get 200 grams Sugar
  3. Take 1 pinch Salt
  4. Take 1 Mochi rice cakes

Just leave to chill in the fridge and enjoy with a scoop of green tea ice cream, delicious. - It's popular to enjoy sweet red bean soup with sour pickled plums or konbu tea to provide a refreshing contrast to the sweet flavour. Zenzai is sweet Azuki red bean soup with baked Mochi or Dango in it. It is a traditional Japanese snack. Zenzai is basically soup made from Anko.

Instructions to make Sweet Red Bean Soup (Zenzai):
  1. Rinse the dried adzuki beans and add to 700 ml water in a sauce pan. Simmer over medium heat. When it comes to a boil, add 200 ml of water. When it comes to a boil again, turn off the heat and drain.
  2. Put the adzuki beans into the pan again, add water to 2 cm above the beans. Simmer over medium heat until the beans lose their wrinkles and become smooth, and drain.
  3. Put the adzuki beans into the pan again, add water to 2 cm above the beans. Simmer over low heat until the beans become tender enough to easily mashed with your finger. Always simmer over low heat.
  4. When the adzuki beans are tender, add salt and sugar and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the sugar in 3 batches. Leave to stand overnight to let the flavors meld together. And it's ready.
  5. Toast mochi until golden brown. Put the mochi in the sweet red bean soup and enjoy.
  6. You can make sweet red bean soup from anko.
  7. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

It is a traditional Japanese snack. Zenzai is basically soup made from Anko. Anko (sweet red bean paste) is the crucial ingredient for traditional. Zenzai is a sweet soup made of red beans and one of a traditional Japanese sweet. Zenzai usually contains rice cakes, dumplings, chestnuts, etc.

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