Recipe of Mario Batali Zenzai (Sweet Azuki Soup)

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, zenzai (sweet azuki soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Drain the hot water (to remove the harsh taste). Zenzai (ぜんざい) is a traditional Japanese dessert soup made with azuki beans. This sweet red bean soup is served hot with mochi (rice cake) or shiratama dango (glutinous rice flour dumplings) inside the soup. Slightly sweet, with a gentle fragrance from the red beans, the dessert soup has the instant magic of warming up one's soul.

Zenzai (Sweet Azuki Soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Zenzai (Sweet Azuki Soup) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have zenzai (sweet azuki soup) using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Zenzai (Sweet Azuki Soup):

1. Prepare 1 cup ‘Azuki’ Beans (Red Beans)
2. Make ready 1/2-1 cup Sugar
3. Make ready 1/8-1/6 teaspoon Salt
4. Take 4 Mochi (Rice Cakes) *OR Dango Dumplings, ‘Mochi Ice Cream’ is also good!

Its smooth version made with 'Koshi-an' is called 'Shiruko', and I always prefer 'Zenzai'. 'Zenzai' can be made with store-bought canned 'Tsubu-an', but it is so easy to make from scratch. Try this if you like Azuki. Zenzai is sweet Azuki red bean soup with baked Mochi or Dango in it. It is a traditional Japanese snack.

Steps to make Zenzai (Sweet Azuki Soup):

1. Place Azuki Beans in a large saucepan or a pot and cover them with a plenty of water, and cook until the beans are swollen and plump. Darin the water. *Soaking the beans in water overnight saves cooking time.
2. Return the beans back into the saucepan, cover with plenty of water again, and cook until the beans are tender.
3. Remove excess water OR add extra water to make the water level just enough to cover the beans. Add Sugar and Salt, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for a few more minutes.
4. Enjoy with Toasted Mochi (Rice Cakes) or Dango Dumplings. 'Zenzai' can be enjoyed hot or cold. *Note: Mochi Ice Cream is also good.

Zenzai is sweet Azuki red bean soup with baked Mochi or Dango in it. It is a traditional Japanese snack. Zenzai is basically soup made from Anko. Zenzai is a very traditional Japanese dessert made with azuki beans and mochi, or glutinous rice cake. If you've never had azuki, or sweet read bean before, the idea of beans in a dessert might sound a little strange but its a very common item to see in Asian desserts.

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