Red Bean Paste

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

6-8

Preparation Time

30 minutes

Total Time

Overnight + 50mins

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ‘Simply Natural’ organic adzuki beans
  • ¼ cup ‘Simply Natural’ organic pearl barley
  • 10 pitted organic red dates
  • 1 large organic jumbo fuji apple
  • 1 piece of dried organic mandarin peel
  • 5 cups filtered water
  • 3 tbsp ‘Simply Natural’ organic coconut nectar sugar, added towards the end

Credits: Ceri, Zenxin master chef

Methods

  1. Place adzuki beans in a bowl and cover with at least 2” filtered water to soak overnight.
  2. Rinse barley & red dates and put to soak overnight, again well covered with water.
  3. Drain and rise both the beans and the grains and put together in the chosen pot.
  4. Add in the soaked, pitted red dates and mandarin peel.
  5. Wash, core and peel the Jumbo apple and cut into the pot in small pieces.
  6. Add the water and bring to the boil, then turn down to simmer for 40 mins

( For Thermomix 40 mins, 100°C Reverse, lowest speed)

  1. When beans and barley are soft, add in the coconut sugar.
  2. Blend to required consistency using a hand blender.

( or for Thermomix 30 secs speed 5 or to desired consistency)