Bean Paste

An essential filling for Chinese pastries and desserts, red bean paste tastes amazing when made at home. This recipe includes two classic versions.

This easy Anko recipe needs just three ingredients, with no overnight soaking required! Get ready to make all your favourite Japanese desserts with your very own homemade Sweet Red Bean Paste.

Sweet red bean paste is excellent for Japanese dessert, Chinese dessert, as mooncakes' filler, for red bean paste buns or bread and pastries.

Smooth and sweet bean paste–use red bean, green mung bean, or yellow split beans. Simmer slowly on the stovetop, or use a pressure cooker to shorten the cooking time. Perfect for desserts and as filling for bread and pastries.

Learn how to make smooth and shiny dou sha or known as Anko in Japan that you can use as filling for many Asian pastries, bread, steamed buns, or just eat by spoonfuls if you wish. Instant pot-friendly. Vegan and gluten-free.

Yellow bean paste is a classic filling used in many Asian treats, from pastries to buns. It's creamy, nutty, sweet, and easy to make at home from yellow split beans. Discover how with our step-by-step recipe, which also comes with a sugar-free option!

These crispy, chewy and nutty authentic Chinese sesame balls with red bean paste are popular for a reason—they are the perfect treat. These crispy fried sesame balls are made with only 5 ingredients and are really simple to make at home!

My Korean grandmother would call this a culinary heresy, but here's a shortcut white bean paste (Shiro An) recipe that I make when I'm in a hurry and don't have any at home. Unlike the traditional recipe, this shortcut recipe uses canned white butter beans and a high-speed blender to create a bean pulp that's quickly squeezed through a nut-milk bag and sweetened with sugar.

Red bean paste Bing (豆[dòu]沙[shā]饼[bǐng]) is a great variation of Chinese scallion pancake. Unlike the crispy and savory texture of scallion pancake, red bean paste pancake has a soft shell with soft and sweet filling.