PASTE - Homemade Red Bean Paste (家居自制红豆沙馅）

By Aemelia

Ingredients

• 500 grams of red beans
• 200 grams of brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons of maltose
• 4 tablespoons of glutinous rice flour (optional)
• 250 grams of lard or peanut oil
• As for oil and sugar, it is advisable that you add gradually along the preparation. You may need more or less depending on your desired texture and smoothness.

Details

Adapted from kwgls.wordpress.com

Preparation

Step 1

Clean the red bean and put about 1 litre of water together with the washed red bean in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook the red bean for 30 minutes or until the red bean is soft. Drain away the additional water if any. Transfer the cooked red bean to a food processor, blend until as fine as you can. You may took a while to blend the cooked red bean as it can be rather sticky, therefore, pause and stir is required. Add the brown sugar, maltose and 50 grams of lard or peanut oil and continue to blend until as smooth as possible. Additions of this will facilitate the blending. (Remember you can gradually add the brown sugar until your desired sweetness).

In a wok, heat up the remaining lard or peanut oil, add the blended red bean paste, followed by the glutinous rice flour. Stir fry under medium heat until aroma start to emit, sugar melted and the oil is well mixed with the red bean paste. Take some to taste if this is your desired sweetness and texture, otherwise, adjust by adding more oil and sugar now. Once done, cooled completely before store in an air tight container in the refrigerator.