Prep time: 5 mins + soaking time
Cook time: 45 mins
Yield: about 550 gm
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (about 230 gm) red beans
- 2 cups water
- 140 gm brown sugar slab (片糖), or adjust to your liking
- Rinse the red beans and soak in water for at least 3 hours, or overnight the best. You’ll find some bubbles on the surface of the water while soaking. Discard the water and rinse. Drain well.
- Put the red beans, water and brown sugar slab into the inner pot. Bring it to boil with cover over high heat. Continue cooking for further 5 minutes. Don’t open the cover. Immediately put inside the outer pot. Secure the lid. Let it cook inside for 4 to 5 hours. The red beans should turn soft enough by then.
- Follow the above steps to soak and prepare red beans. You need add 1 to 1½ cup of water more, making 3 to 3½ cups totally, if you cook over stove top. As the power of every stove is very different, the amount of water used will be different.
- In a heavy-based pot, put in the red beans, water and sugar. Cover and bring it to boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for about 45 minutes, or until the red beans are softened. The red beans should hold their shapes. It’s done. Don’t cook any further as you don’t want your beans turn mushy or burnt.
- After the red beans are cooked and softened, make sure not to stir them too hard. Or else the bean skins will be broken.
- You can swirl the pot in round motions instead of stirring them with hard utensils.
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