Creamy Red Bean Dessert

My mother-in-law loves to make this "红豆沙" dessert during Chinese New Year and we always ask for 2nd helping because of it's fine texture compare to some of the restaurants. So when I the recipe and photo of this on one of the forum, I decided to give it a try since the ingredients and steps are pretty easy.


Ingredients:
500g Red Beans(soaked overnight)
11 Cups Of Water, about 2200ml
1 Piece of Dried Tangerine Peel
1 Packet Of Fresh Lily Bulbs
1 Packet Of Fresh Ginkgo Nuts/Lotus Seeds
Rock Sugar to taste
Few Pieces Of Pandan Leaves

Methods:
1. Wash and soaked the red bean in a pot overnight.
2. Soak dried tangerine peel till soft then scrape off the pith.
3. Boil red bean & tangerine peel with water till for about 15 minutes over medium heat then switch off and let it soaked until soft.
4. Wash the Ginkgo Nuts or Lotus Seeds then removed any pith inside then marinate it with 1 tablespoon of caster sugar and set aside in the fridge.
5. Drained the soft red bean, keep the water aside.
6. Put the beans into the blender and blend till very fine paste.
7. Sieve through a fine sieve into a pot, you need to stir them thru the sieve.
8. Slowly add some of the red bean water into the paste until the consistency that you prefer.
9. Add lotus seed/ginkgo nut, pandan leaves and rock sugar into the paste then simmer till sugar dissolved then add in the lily bulbs.

Notes: Cut the Lily bulbs into individual petals then soak it in water for a while, remove and pat dry. If you leave the cooked paste along for a few hours, it will thicken further. This is the time to use the reserved redbean water to dilute it to the right constitency.

In this recipe, I add in Ginkgo Nuts and Fresh Lily Bulbs and it really taste excellent. The most important things is that, it is really very smooth and tasty...... Do give it a try if you are a fan of red bean. It's not a difficult as you think, the only tiring part is the blending and sieving only.