🇨🇳 Chinese Cuisine

红豆汤 (Hong Dou Tang)

Red Bean Soup

Prep Time 120 minutes
Servings 6
Difficulty Easy

A sweet Cantonese dessert soup of slow-simmered red adzuki beans with dried tangerine peel and lotus seeds. Served warm in winter and chilled in summer.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Soak beans overnight, drain and rinse.
  2. 2 Bring beans and tangerine peel to a boil in fresh water.
  3. 3 Reduce heat and simmer for ninety minutes until beans are soft.
  4. 4 Add rock sugar and lotus seeds, cook another fifteen minutes.
  5. 5 Serve warm or chilled, with a drizzle of coconut milk if desired.

Did You Know?

Red bean soup is traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival and is believed to bring good fortune in Cantonese culture.