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How to make Anko, which is Japanese vegan sweet adzuki bean paste by pressure cooker. I have a video how to make Anko, before, but this is a quicker method for how to make Anko. Anko is sweet Azuki beans paste and traditional Japanese sweets. It is not only but also Asian sweets.
If you have this recipe, you can make many Japanese sweets from this ingredients. I already have some in my youtube video and so as this website. Also if you have vanilla ice cream, add this on top, you will like it. There are Azuki (adzuki) bean ice cream in Japan, and adzuki bean ice cream and matcha is also a good convention. I put on a waffle, which reminds me taiyaki. Oshiruko is a sweet Azuki bean soup and Mochi inside, and it is favorite winter food. It is good with dairy ingredients, which is butter, condensed milk, and ice cream. You can be creative.

In this page, I made an Azuki paste by mushing beans, but you can use a strainer to make this paste more smooth. I like mush Azuki instead strainer way. However, it depends on what you make. For health reason, mashed Azuki has more fiber, and it is better for you. Azuki skin has more fiber, you feel full more, and fiber is great when you eat sugar.
Ingredients
250g/8oz Azuki (Adzuki) Bean
250g/8oz Sugar
1tsp Salt
Instruction: Pressure Cooker
1 Double amount of water of Azuki and Azuki in the pot
2 Heat the pot until boil
3 Boil the Azuki for 2~3 min and toss the water out
4 Add new water (Double amount) in the pot and boil it again
5 Boil the Azuki for 2~3 min and toss the water out, again
6 Put Azuki and water (triple amount) in the pressure cooker and heat it until the indicator is jiggle
7 Turn the heat low for 20~25 min and turn the heat off
8 The pressure is out, open the lid.
9 Add sugar and salt and cook until the water is the desired amount
10 To make the paste, you need mush the beans, and I use a potato masher to mush the beans
** When Azuki is hot in the pot, it may be soft, but when it is cold, the paste will be hard. You may want to beans be soupy
Instruction: Regular Pot
1 Triple amount of water of Azuki and Azuki in the pot
2 Leave the Azuki in the water until the bean is soaked water fully
3 Heat the pot until boil
4 Boil the Azuki for 1 min and toss the water out
5 Add new water (Double amount) in the pot and boil it again
6 Boil the Azuki for 1 min and toss the water out, again
7 Add new water (Triple amount) and high heat until boil
8 Turn the heat low to medium and cook until the bean is soft
9 Add sugar and salt and cook until water is the desired amount
10 To make the paste, you need mush the beans, and I use a potato masher to mush the beans
** When Azuki is hot in the pot, it may be soft, but when it is cold, the paste will be hard.

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