Red beans and red beans, in the daily diet, often people can not tell the difference, and it is no wonder, many online writing is wrong, red beans and acacia beans are not the same. Red lentils are often used together with red beans via often, and have roughly the same effect. Of course, red beans and red beans are more or less the same. For example:

One, the appearance is not the same

Color of red beans is more hair dark black, red beans color purple, bright. Red beans grain longer, red beans grain round.

Second, in the nutritional composition of a slight difference

Red beans starch, texture compared to the red beans soft some, so the rate of sand is more, red beans are relatively hard. Protein is slightly higher.

Three, there is a slight difference in taste

The majority of Chinese medicine into the use of red beans, red beans to clear the heart in addition to annoyance, reduce swelling and detoxification, diuretic breast.

Barley porridge and red bean barley porridge

Barley has a high nutritional value, so it is known as ″King of the World's Gramineae". Job's tears are medicinal food, commonly known as ″medicinal corn".

Barley has an obvious odor that makes it unacceptable to many people, while the odor of red kidney beans and red kidney beans is relatively bland, so to make delicious red kidney beans and barley porridge or red kidney beans and barley porridge, the first thing you need to do is to treat the barley to remove the peculiar odor of barley.

1, to remove the peculiar odor of barley

The barley picked clean, washed with water, drained, poured into the pot in a small fire stir fry until the appearance of caramel color can be, you can also be put into the plate in the 150 ℃ or so in the oven, baked until the appearance of caramel color, the time of 25 minutes or so.

2, adzuki beans or red beans soaking

The adzuki beans or red beans after picking clean, wash with water, soak for 3 hours to 4 hours.

3, use the electric pressure cooker to cook porridge

Pour the soaked adzuki beans or red beans and fried or roasted Job's tears into the inner liner of the electric pressure cooker, add about 8 times as much water, cover the lid, press the button for porridge/soup, and choose the thick aroma.

You like the texture of soft porridge, use red small beans and barley to cook red small beans and barley porridge; need more calcium and iron porridge, use red small beans to cook and barley to cook red small beans and barley porridge.

Summary

Chinese red beans are slender and round, slightly flat, and red beans are short and cylindrical, slightly flat; red beans are dark red or purple red, and red beans are date red or dark brownish red.

Red beans are more difficult to cook than red beans; cooked red beans taste hard and powder, cooked red beans taste soft and sticky.

Calcium and iron content in adzuki beans is much higher than that in red beans.

For soft porridge, use red kidney beans and barley to cook red kidney beans and barley porridge; for porridge that needs more calcium and iron, use red kidney beans and barley to cook red kidney beans and barley porridge; if you want red kidney beans and barley porridge or red kidney beans and barley porridge to be tasty, you need to stir-fry or roast the barley until burnt.