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Encyclopedia > Bean jam

Red bean paste is a food item prepared by boiling azuki beans with sugar. Known as an (餡) in Japanese and dou sha (豆沙) in Chinese, this is used in many Japanese desserts, such as:

There are different varieties of an-

  • koshian which is homogenous and smooth
  • tsubuan which has some (sweet) whole beans still in it

The cartoon hero Anpanman is an anthropomorphic bun filled with azuki bean paste.






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Process for preparing bean jam - Patent 5455056 (2040 words)
It is generally required for removing cyanic compounds contained in beans to soak the starting beans for at least four hours in warm water, to cook the beans for several hours and to refine the resulting bean jams in water at least three times.
For producing bean jams of adzuki beans, a large amount of water is used, a high level of heat energy is lost accordingly, and a period of at least 4-6 hours is required for preparing one batch of bean jam, so that the daily production amount per unit is limited.
The butter beans were placed in a cooker, cooked with 60 liters of the treated water before removing the astringent ingredients once and further cooked with 60 liters of the treated water for 30 minutes.
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