Thanks to RTP, I watched 2 episodes of "You are What You Eat" and learned a little about Adzuki beans. Have any of you ever eaten/cooked with Adzuki beans? Do you have recipes?

BTW, I LOVED the show and learned a lot!!!!!! I learned that I NEVER want to see all that I eat in one week layed out on a table for ALL to see!!! LOL

Yay!  Don't you love her accent? I love it, and their different words for everything, like a tin of fizzy-pop instead of can of soda, breakfast fry-ups (well I guess that does actually describe it), bags of crisps (chips, but to them chips means fries. Wonder what "fries" means?), takeaways (takeout or drivethrough meals), bicarbonate of soda instead of baking soda, etc., and words like "smashing".  I feel so culturally enlightened (not, I'm just a dork watching too much BBC! lol).  I think I'll start talking like that.  My DH will be like 'you need to get a hobby, woman.'

OK enough of my strange rant.  No, I've never heard of Adzuki beans.  Could that just be a British name for some bean we're actually already familiar w/?  lol  Hang on lemme google it...

From Wikipedia:
"[edit] Uses
In East Asian cuisine the azuki bean is almost always eaten sweetened. In particular, it is often boiled with sugar, resulting in red bean paste, a very common ingredient in all three cuisines; it is also common to add flavoring to the bean paste, such as chestnut.

 
Azuki bean paste being used as a filling for taiyaki in Kyoto, Japan.Red bean paste is used in many Chinese foods, such as tangyuan, zongzi, mooncakes, baozi, and red bean ice. It is also used as a filling for Japanese sweets such as anmitsu, taiyaki (Korean: bungeoppang), and daifuku. A more liquid version, using azuki beans boiled with sugar, lotus seeds, and orange peel, produces a sweet dish called red bean soup. Azuki beans are also commonly eaten sprouted, or boiled in a hot, tea-like drink.

In Japan, rice with azuki beans (赤飯; sekihan) is traditionally cooked for auspicious occasions. Azuki beans are also used to produce amanattō, and as a popular flavour of ice cream.

Azuki beans, along with butter and sugar, form the basis of the popular Somali supper dish cambuulo."


No recipes, but I think that I have finally found what I ate in Japan that I liked so much!  This bean is from the Himalayas btw.  Butter and sugar sounds good to me!     There were alot of recipe links that popped up when I googled it, here's some:

www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?ls=h&foodid=7978
www.geocities.com/adzuki_tips/
www.vegparadise.com/bean1.html
www.knowingfood.com/red/adkrecipe.html
www.adzuki.com/

Hth! I'll have to check these out too!  Sounds like I would have to visit an expensive specialty store or order online to get them.  But then again, maybe I've just overlooked them b/c of unfamiliarity.

Thanks RTP! Just what I need, something else to add sugar to!!!! LOL I see that Bob's Red Mill has them, they are a bit expensive, but bot too bad!!!!!

I LOVED it when she was talking about "poo", LOL!!!!!!!