Red beans are rich in starch, so they are also called "Mi Dou". It has the functions of "swallowing, diuresis, relieving bloating, detumescence and stopping vomiting", and is called "Heart Meridian Valley" by Li Shizhen. Red beans are indispensable multi-functional miscellaneous grains with high nutrition in people's lives.
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Red beans can be eaten whole, generally used for cooking, porridge, red bean soup or popsicle, ice cream and so on. The dishes used are "red bean sparerib soup" and so on. Because of its high starch content, steamed red beans are powdery and have a unique flavor, so they are often used to make bean paste and as fillings for various cakes. Red beans can also be made into red bean sprouts and eaten with mung bean sprouts.
Modern research believes that red beans contain a lot of fiber to treat constipation and potassium to promote diuresis. Both of these ingredients can excrete cholesterol and salt that the human body does not need, so they are considered to have detoxification effects. Red beans can also be used to treat heart and kidney edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, beriberi edema, and external application of sore poison, all of which have certain curative effects. The water extract of red bean has antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhi. Red bean soup can be used to treat edema caused by kidney, heart, liver, malnutrition and inflammation.
The practice of sweet-scented osmanthus red bean paste;
[raw materials]
500 grams of red beans, 200 grams of sugar, 45 grams of osmanthus fragrans, and lotus root starch.
[method]
1. Wash the red beans and soak them in water for one night.
2. Put the red beans into the pot, add two liters of water, and after the fire is boiled, simmer for about three hours with low fire until the red beans are crisp and rotten, add the glutinous rice balls, boil, add white sugar, add a little cold water to the lotus root starch, melt, sprinkle with osmanthus, boil again and mix well.
Chinese medicine advocates that drinking more than three meals a day will be beneficial to the body, and for women, it can also play a role in losing weight. So many people want to learn the method of red bean paste. In order to learn as soon as possible, look at the introduction above. I believe that if you try, you can make delicious, refreshing and nutritious red bean paste.