adzuki bean
赤小豆· chi xiao dou
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Taste & Role
🍯 Sweet
Most famously simmered and sweetened into red bean paste, the classic filling for buns, mooncakes, pancakes, and pastries. They are also cooked into sweet soups, desserts, and congee, and in Chinese home cooking they are often simmered in wellness soups with grains like coix seed.
What it is
Adzuki beans are small, oblong legumes with a deep reddish-brown skin and a thin white stripe along one edge. They are a staple of East Asian cooking, prized for their naturally sweet, starchy flesh. They are also sometimes spelled azuki beans.
Nutrition
per 100 g- Calories
- 329 kcal
- Protein
- 19.9 g
- Total fat
- 0.53 g
- Carbs
- 62.9 g
- Fiber
- 12.7 g
- Sodium
- 5 mg
USDA FoodData Central (closest standard match)
Substitutes
No registered substitutes — this one is usually easy to find.
Recipes using it
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