World Flavors Cookbook

Hong Dou Tang (Red Bean Soup)

Name: Hong Dou Tang (Red Bean Soup)
Cook time: 90 min
Cuisine: Ancient World
Ingredients: dried adzuki (red) beans, water, rock sugar, dried tangerine peel, optional: dried lotus seeds, dried lily bulbs

Red adzuki beans simmered with rock sugar and dried tangerine peel until soft and sweet — a Han dynasty restorative dessert soup documented in early Chinese medical texts.

Cuisine: Ancient World

Ingredients

dried adzuki (red) beans, water, rock sugar, dried tangerine peel, optional: dried lotus seeds, dried lily bulbs

Instructions

Soak adzuki beans overnight. Drain. Simmer in fresh water with tangerine peel for 1.5 hours until beans are completely soft and skins have burst. Add rock sugar to taste. Stir until dissolved. Serve warm as a dessert soup. Leftover beans can be mashed into bean paste.