Making ice cream at home can seem complicated when you think about it. However, it doesn’t have to be that way.
Here, we will introduce a simple way to make red bean paste ice cream with only 3 ingredients: red bean paste, fresh cream, and honey.
Red Bean Paste Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 150 g Red Bean Paste
- 200 ml Fresh Cream
- 1 tbso Honey
Instructions
- In a small pot, heat up the fresh cream until it's boiling
- Add red bean paste and honey. Stir well
- Move the ice cream mix into a container, cover wirh plastic wrap and let freeze for 1 hour.
- Take the ice cream out from the freezer, stir the ice cream again.
- Wrap the container with plastic wrap again, and let freeze once more for 2 to 3 hours.
A Little Bit About Red Bean Paste
Red bean paste is the foundation of Japanese traditional desserts. It is made by boiling red beans until soft, then mixing it with sugar.
There are two types of red bean paste depending on how it’s made: tsubuan & koshian.
Tsubuan is made by mashing boiled red beans and mixing it with sugar. Tsubuan is a chunkier version of red bean paste, so it is served along with the peel. The texture can add a nice bite to the paste.
Koshian, though it has the same making process with tsubuan, later the chunky paste is added with water and strained multiple times to make a smoother consistency.
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The red bean and sugar quality can make or break the overall taste of your red bean paste. So why not make them with the best ingredients out there?
Introducing organic red beans from a farm in Hokkaido that has cultivated red beans for more than 30 years without pesticides. Try the red beans together with Wasanbon sugar, a fine sugar specially made by a sugar refinery in Japan that has 200 years of history.
