1, Ingredients:

1/2 cup of black glutinous rice, 1/3 cup of white glutinous rice, 1/2 cup of red beans, 1 piece of yam, moderate amount of brown sugar, moderate amount of coconut milk.

2. Steps:

Wash and cut yam into small pieces.

Wash red beans and glutinous rice, add 10 bowls of water with a simmering pot, high heat boil for about 5 minutes, that is, into the pot to simmer for about 1 hour, then take out of the stove on the fire slowly simmering, when the rice soup into a thick, you can add the yam diced a little boiled, add sugar to taste that is complete.

Add some coconut milk on top when serving; coconut milk can be salted for a more pure flavor.

Red beans, generally refers to red beans. Alias: red red beans, red beans, red small beans, red adzuki beans, small beans.

Red beans are annual, erect or twining herbs. 30 to 90 centimeters tall, the plant is sparsely hirsute. Leaves pinnately compound with 3 leaflets; stipules peltate, sagittate, 0.9 to 1.7 centimeters long; leaflets ovate to rhombic-ovate, 5 to 10 centimeters long, 5 to 8 centimeters wide, broadly triangular or subrounded at the apex, oblique in the lateral ones, entire or shallowly three-lobed, slightly sparsely hirsute on both sides.

Flowers yellow, ca. 5 or 6 borne on top of short pedicels; pedicels very short; bracteoles lanceolate, 6 to 8 mm long; calyx campanulate, 3 to 4 mm long; corolla ca. 9 mm long, petals compressed-orbicular or subreniform, often slightly skewed, apically concave, pterygoid wider than keeled petals, with a short petiole and auricles, keeled petals curved apically for nearly half a circle, with an angular bulge in the middle and lower portion of one of them, with a basal petiole Ovary linear, style curved, hairy near apex.

Pods terete, 5 to 8 centimeters long, 5 to 6 millimeters wide, spreading or recurved, glabrous; seeds usually dark red or other colors, oblong, 5 to 6 millimeters long, 4 to 5 millimeters wide, truncated or nearly rounded at both ends, the hilum not sunken. Fl. summer, fr. Sept. to Oct.

Origin and Habitat

It is cultivated in both the north and south of China.

Growth habit

Azuki beans are warm, light-loving and resistant to waterlogging. The whole life cycle needs more than 10 ℃, effective cumulative temperature of 20 to 25 ℃, generally above 8 to 12 ℃ began to germinate seedlings. Adzuki beans are sensitive to light response, premature sowing to extend the growth period, maturity is not early. Therefore, when seed is introduced from high latitude to low latitude, it will mature earlier, and when seed is introduced from low latitude to high latitude, it will prolong the maturity period. The length of adzuki bean fertility varies according to the variety. The short growing period can be 60 to 90 days; the long growing period can be 80 to 120 days. Adzuki beans need the most water before and after flowering, flowering and podding period of high temperature, drought, easy to cause flower, pods; too wet, the plant is prone to collapse. In the drum grain maturity period, the weather is sunny and favorable for photosynthesis, which is conducive to improving grain weight. Adzuki beans grow best in loose humus soil. Sandy soil planting adzuki bean grain red and shiny. Loamy soil planted adzuki beans black, dark red. Adzuki beans are more adaptable to the soil, and can grow in slightly acidic and slightly alkaline soil.

Main value

Azuki beans mainly contain protein, sugar and other nutrients. Seeds for food, cooking porridge, making bean paste can be. Dried beans contain 21 to 23% protein, 0.3% fat and 65% carbohydrates.

Nutrition: per 100g of adzuki beans contain 21.7g of protein, 0.8g of fat, 60.7g of sugar, 4.9g of crude fiber, 76mg of calcium, 386mg of phosphorus, 45mg of iron, 0.43mg of thiamine, 0.16mg of riboflavin, 2.1mg of nicotinic acid.

Lysine: lysine is a higher content of amino acids.

Other: azuki beans also contain three crystalline saponins.

Recipes for adzuki beans:

Winter melon and adzuki bean soup

Raw materials: 500 grams of winter melon, adzuki beans 40 grams

Practice: winter melon, adzuki beans with two bowls of water to boil, simmering for 20 minutes on a low flame.

Use: no salt or less salt, take 2 times a day, eat melon and drink soup.

Azuki bean corn barley porridge

Raw materials: 50 grams of cornhusk, 15 grams of azuki beans, 30 grams of coix seed.

Practice: add the right amount of water to the cornhusk first decoction for 10 minutes, red beans, Coix lacryma washed into the pot, with a strong fire after the boil into a thin porridge with a small fire. Warm service, 1 time a day. Suitable for the treatment of Yang deficiency water flooding see body fat, tiredness, moss white greasy.

Psyllium seed and red bean sweet soup

Raw materials: 200 grams of psyllium, red bean 250 grams, 500 grams of glutinous rice.

Practice: psyllium decoction, with psyllium water to cook adzuki beans, to half rotten, and then into the glutinous rice, cook until glutinous rice can be cooked, add rock sugar or sugar.