Red bean soup is a popular Chinese dessert. It also called hong dou tang (紅豆湯). This sweet red bean soup recipe uses instant pot. And, it does not require pre-soaking adzuki beans. Hope you enjoy this red bean soup instant pot recipe!
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What is red bean soup?
Red bean soup is a popular Chinese dessert mostly in China, Taiwan, and south east Asia. In Chinese, it also called hong dou tang (紅豆湯). Also, it is categorized as dessert, tang shui (糖水), and literally translated as sugar water or sweet soup.
Normally, red bean soup serves as cold during summer, and hot in winter. Often, it serves as a dessert at the end of Chinese restaurant meal or banquet.
What are the ingredients in sweet red bean soup?
Traditionally, in Cantonese cuisine hong dou tang is made from rock sugar, water, red beans and dried mandarin peels. Red beans also called adzuki bean. It's a kind of mung beans in red color.
Most of time people like to use rock sugar or sliced brown sugar to make sweet soup. However, you can use brown sugar and it tastes great as well.
Instant pot red bean soup:
This recipe uses instant pot pressure cooker to make it. Therefore, it's faster than traditional top stove cooking method and do not require pre-soaking the beans. Not only it is easier to make sweet red bean soup using instant pot pressure cooker, but also the beans are soft. Hope you enjoy this sweet adzuki bean soup instant pot recipe.
Cooking tips for how to make hong dou tang (紅豆湯):
- Wash and rinse adzuki beans (red beans) and dried mandarin peels
- Put adzuki beans, dries mandarin peel and water into pressure cooker manual for 45 minutes in high pressure
- After that quick release, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste)
- Sauté for 20-30 mins until it's thicken. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent bottom gets burn. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, hong dou tang will be thicker.)
FAQs:
How long can you refrigerate sweet red bean soup?
Average can store in the refrigerator for 4-5 days. Besides, I like to freeze red bean soup to make ice pops. This is one of my favorite Chinese popsicles and I enjoy a lot.
How long should I soak adzuki beans for?
Normally, it takes 2-4 hours to soak the beans if you use top stove or slow cooker method. However, it doesn't require soaking adzuki beans before cooking in pressure cooker instant pot.
Instructions on how to make instant pot red bean soup:
1. Wash or rinse the 1 cup of red beans then put it in the instant pot, the pressure cooker.
2. Add 6 cups of water and 2 small pieces of dried mandarin peels close the lid and vent push manual button adjust time for 45 minuets in high pressure
3. Then, quick release, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste) and sauté for 20-30 mins until it's thicken. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent bottom gets burn. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, it will be thicker.)
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Red Bean Soup
Ingredients
- 1 cup Red Mung Beans (Adzuki beans)
- 6 cups Water
- 3/4 cup Rock sugar Or Brown sugar (Add sugar to your taste)
- 2 small pieces Dried mandarin peel
Instructions
- Wash or rinse the 1 cup of red beans then put it in the instant pot, the pressure cooker.
- Add 6 cups of water and 2 small pieces of dried mandarin peels close the lid and vent push manual button adjust time for 45 minuets in high pressure
- Then, quick release, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste) and sauté for 20-30 mins until it’s thicken. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent bottom gets burn. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, it will be thicker.)
Notes
Cooking tips for how to make hong dou tang (紅豆湯):
- Wash and rinse adzuki beans (red beans) and dried mandarin peels
- Put adzuki beans, dries mandarin peel and water into pressure cooker manual for 45 minutes in high pressure
- After that quick release, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste)
- Sauté for 20-30 mins until it's thicken. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent bottom gets burn. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, hong dou tang will be thicker.)