Recipe: Delicious Silky and Smooth Mizu-Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste)

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Recipe by Chisora Mizu Yokan is a traditional Japanese dessert, or wagashi, as it is known in Japanese cuisine.

Yokan is a general term which refers to this jelly dessert made of red azuki beans, agar, and sugar.

The red azuki beans are in the form of tsubuan (smooth red bean paste) or koshian (coarse red bean paste).

You can cook Silky and Smooth Mizu-Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste) using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Silky and Smooth Mizu-Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste)

  1. Prepare 1 can of Canned boiled aduki beans.

  2. Prepare 60 grams of Sugar (preferably brown sugar).

  3. It’s 1 pinch of Salt.

  4. You need 4 grams of Kanten powder.

  5. Prepare 300 ml of + 300 ml Water.

In other variations of yokan, the red beans are substituted with a white kidney bean paste.

Mizu Yokan is a sweetened gelatin of azuki bean paste perfect for a hot day.

We are making cold, smooth and refreshing Mizu Yokan, jellied dessert with red bean paste.

Using a takoyaki mold, it is shaped into cute bite-size pieces.

Silky and Smooth Mizu-Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste) instructions

  1. Blend the boiled aduki beans and 300 ml water in a blender until the graininess is gone (roughly for 1 minute)..

  2. Strain into a large bowl..

  3. Add 300 ml water and powdered agar into a pot. Stir and dissolve. Boil for 2 minutes over medium heat..

  4. Turn the heat off. Add sugar, salt, and the strained mixture from step 2. Mix everything together..

  5. Pour into a container. Chill in the fridge to harden..

Strain into a mold and chill it. *About the paste.

Azuki bean jelly Azuki bean jelly using Kanten (Agar Agar) and sweet Azuki bean paste is one of the most popular and traditional Japanese desserts for vegetarian.

Kanten (Agar Agar) is gelatin made from sea vegetable.

Red Bean Jelly (Mizu Yokan) 水ようかん.

I couldn't find Japanese red bean paste in Singapore, so I made it using local red bean paste that was pre-made ready for Chinese bao.