Zenzai – Oshiruko (Sweet Red Bean Soup)

Zenzai is a traditional Japanese dessert.  It’s a thick sweet soup consists of boiled azuki beans and often served with mochi (rice cake) or shiratama dango .  Oshiruko  or Shiruko is another name used in east of Japan where azuki beans are boiled and then crushed into paste and it has a more watery consistency than zenzai.

Zenzai (Red Bean Soup)

Ingredients

• 100 g red bean paste (anko) (100 g = 3.5 oz) (I used Tsubuan, see Notes for homemade recipe)
• 100 ml water (100 ml = 100 g)
• pinch Kosher salt
• 1 piece kirimochi or homemade mochi(or Shiratama Dango, see Notes)

Instructions

1. Gather all the ingredients.
2. In a saucepan, heat anko and water and bring it to a boil. Add pinch of salt and mix well. Turn off the heat.
3. Cut mochi in half/quarter (if you like) and place mochi in a toaster oven and toast (or bake at 400F) until puffed up and golden brown, about 10 minutes.
4. When the mochi is nice and toasty take it out and put it in the Zenzai. Enjoy immediately but be careful and don't burn yourself.

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