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 southeast Asia. In Chinese, it also called hong dou tang (紅豆湯). It categorized as dessert, tang shui (糖水). And, it 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 are also called adzuki bean. It's a kind of mung beans in red color.
Most of the 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.
Red bean soup instant pot:
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, dried mandarin peel and water into pressure cooker manual for 45 minutes at high pressure
- After that quickly release the pressure, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste)
- Sauté for 30-40 mins until it thickens. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent the bottom from burning. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, the thicker it becomes.)
FAQs:
How long can you refrigerate sweet red bean soup?
Average can be stored in the refrigerator for 4-5 days. Also, you can make red bean ice or freeze them to make ice pops. This is one of my favorite Chinese popsicles and I enjoy it a lot.
How long should I soak adzuki beans for?
Normally, it takes 2-4 hours to soak the beans if you use a top stove or slow cooker method. However, it doesn't require soaking adzuki beans before cooking in a pressure cooker instant pot.
Instructions on how to make instant pot red bean soup:
1. Wash or rinse a cup of red beans then put it in the instant pot, pressure cooker.
2. Next, add 2 small pieces of dried mandarin peels.
3. After that, pour 6 cups of water. Close the lid and vent. Then, push the manual button and adjust time for 45 minutes at high pressure.
4. The following, quickly release the pressure and open the lid. Then, add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste) and sauté for 30-40 mins until it thickens. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent the bottom from burning. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, the thicker it becomes.)
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Red Bean Soup
Ingredients
- 1 cup Adzuki bean (red mung beans)
- 2 small pieces Dried mandarin peel
- 6 cups Water
- 3/4 cup Rock sugar Or Brown sugar (Add sugar to your taste)
Instructions
- Wash or rinse a cup of red beans then put it in the instant pot, pressure cooker.
- Next, add 2 small pieces of dried mandarin peels.
- After that, pour 6 cups of water. Close the lid and vent. Then, push the manual button and adjust time for 45 minutes at high pressure.
- The following, quickly release the pressure and open the lid. Then, add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste) and sauté for 30-40 mins until it thickens. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent the bottom from burning. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, the thicker it becomes.)
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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, dried mandarin peel and water into pressure cooker manual for 45 minutes at high pressure
- After that quickly release the pressure, open the lid add 3/4 cup of rock sugar or brown sugar (add sweet to your taste)
- Sauté for 30-40 mins until it thickens. Remember to stir it once a while to prevent the bottom from burning. (It depends what viscosity you want. The longer time it takes for sauté, the thicker it becomes.)