adzuki bean ideas

[foxy fairy]

I bought some. They are soaking. I believe that tomorrow I am going to cook them smoky-hot with chipotle en adobo, I think, and some chile and cumin (based on a D Madison Smoky-Hot Anasazi Bean recipe) and I think I'll toss in some coconut milk at the end, maybe.

But I'd like other ideas. I know how to prepare pintos, black beans, garbanzos, etc but I've never worked with adzukis and I notice people on other threads referring to them as "sweet adzukis." Hmmmm. I would like some tips, should anyone be in the mood to offer ideas.

Thanks, hounds!

[mochi mochi]

Cooked with tons of sugar, cooled and poured on top of shave ice with sweetened condensed milk or sugar water. My favorite Japanese carnival treat. Kintoki...

[jayt90]

Sweet might refer to sprouted adzukis. Some of the starch is converted to sugar. They are one the best things to sprout at home: easy, responsive, crunchy, and quite appealing to people who hate alfalfa or mung sprouts.

[chocabot]

I put soaked adzukis in my rice cooker w/ brown rice.

I also make red bean soup w/ tangerine peel (it's slightly sweet porridge)

[chowser]

You can make a sweet dessert soup with them that is cooling in the summer. In the winter, it's great heated w/ mochi balls. I also love freezing the soup and making popsicles. Depending on the version, you can add coconut milk but I don't. Or orange peel but I'm a purist and like it plain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshiruko

There's adzubi bean paste, too, which is used in dessert (though I like to eat it by itself). You can stuff puff pastry, home made dough (flaky is great), layer in pancakes, use in mochi balls.

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/desse...

[lgss]

We pressure cook adzukis with brown rice to eat with stir fry.

[Mag454]

When I was living in Japan I lived on rice balls that simply contained adzuki beans and black sesame seeds. They filled me up and I have since recreated the snack with much success.

[jmorri26]

Honestly when I saw adzuki beans in your title I thought cupcakes.

Cupcake Bakeshop is no more, but she made some cupcakes filled with it and they looked fantastic:
http://cupcakeblog.com/index.php/2007...

Check it out and see what you think.