Name: Sweet Red Bean Soup
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: ½ pound Chinese red beans (see note); 4½ ounces rock sugar, or brown sugar; 7 cups cold water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Eileen Yin-fei Lo's New Cantonese Cooking

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1988

About

This sweet soup is served during the Lunar New Year celebration, at which time it is usually eaten hot or warm. At other times of the year it is served cool. I prefer the latter, particularly in warmer weather, because it is so refreshing.

Ingredients

½ pound Chinese red beans (see note)
7 cups cold water
4½

Method

Place the beans in a pot, cover with cold tap water, and wash 3 times to remove grit. Drain.
Place beans back in pot and add the 7 cups of cold water. Turn heat to high, cover pot, and bring to a boil. Stir the beans, lower heat, and allow to simmer 1½ to 2 hours, unti