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Red Bean and Coconut Milk Soup (Instant Pot + Stove Recipe)

This red bean soup can be served hot or cold, suitable through out the year. Mix in coconut milk in the last minute when you serve it.

Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 40 mins + natural release time
Yield: 6 to 8 serves

Ingredients:
  • 200 gm (1 cup) red beans
  • 95 gm (½ cup) black glutinous rice
  • 1 piece dried mandarin peel, store-bought or homemade
  • 2 L water
  • 90 gm rock sugar, or to taste
  • 90 gm brown slab sugar (片糖), or to taste
Method:
  1. Soak mandarin peel until softened. Use a knife to scrape away the inner white part as it tastes bitter.
  2. Rinse the red beans and black glutinous rice. Drain well.
  3. Put all the ingredients into the inner pot of Instant Pot. Close the lid. Turn the steam release handle to the “sealing” position. Press the “porridge” button. When the program is finished, the machine will beep several times. Don’t need to do anything, simply allow the cooker to reduce in pressure naturally. Wait until the float valve drops to the down position. Open the lid. You’ll find the red beans are very soft enough to eat. However, if you’re after the traditional creamy and smooth soup with sandy texture inside like me, you have to press the “sauté” button and cook for further 15 to 20 minutes without the lid on. There you go. (Note: If you want to cook it on stove without a pressure cooker, use soaked red beans and add 2 more cups of water to cook to your liking. Replenish some boiling water if needed along the way of cooking. )
Notes：
  • Dried mandarin peel is sun-dried mandarin peel, available at Asian grocers. Or you can make it yourself. If you don’t have any in hand, you can skip it.
  • The sweetness of rock sugar is light and refreshing, whereas brown slab sugar rich and aromatic. You may choose and use only one of them. Both are available at Asian grocers.
  • Whenever you cook beans in the pressure cooker, remember to use natural release. Don’t release the pressure yourself. The boiling water might spill out from the valve. The natural release time may be around 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the quantity of the cooked ingredients inside. When you see the float valve drops to down position. Then you can open the lid.

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