Full Recipe
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www.bobsredmill.com | 2024-10-30
Description
The recipe for this Marbled Red Bean Cake can be found on our bags of Adzuki Beans. It's a Chinese New Year celebration treat and offers a wonderfully unique blend of flavors and textures.
The cake is made with a mix of Adzuki Beans, water, brown sugar, Sweet White Rice Flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, orange zest, eggs and milk. The frosting keeps things simple, with a delicious mix of powdered sugar and orange juice.
If you've yet to try making a red bean cake, you're in for a real treat! The bean puree is what creates the magical swirls throughout the cake batter to give this treat its quintessential look.
We absolutely love the addition of Adzuki Beans, which have a firm texture and a rich, nutty flavor. They're high in fiber and easy to digest, which makes these legumes a fantastic addition to your diet, particularly a macrobiotic diet. These diets are organized on the principles of yin and yang, and devotees aim to eat seasonally and locally with a focus on fewer animal products.
Dried adzuki beans are also the main ingredient in anko, a sweet red bean paste that's used in Japanese desserts. If you're curious about making your own anko at home, see this tutorial on Anko Red Bean Paste from Nami of Just One Cookbook. She'll guide you through the process and and also shares recipes for creative dishes made with her sweet red bean paste.
Adzukis are known to be wonderful in sweet dishes like red bean cake, but they're also excellent in savory dishes! They can be added to rice, grain bowls, curries, red bean flower bread, hummus and more. You can use them for refried beans or soak them in water to sprout them for salads, dips and spreads.
Whether you're using adzukis for a beautiful red bean cake, a creative Japanese confection or a red bean hummus, we hope you love this legume as much as we do!
