Shiro Koshi-an (Smooth White Sweet Bean Paste)
Shiro Koshi-an (Smooth White Sweet Bean Paste)

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White Bean Paste or Shiroan is commonly used as a filling for wagashi (Japanese confectionery) such as mochi and manju. Shiroan (白餡 or 白あん) is the smooth and sweet white paste called an (餡) or anko (餡子) made from lima beans or butter beans, or in Japanese, Shiro Ingen Mame (白いんげ. This is a tutorial to make Shiro-an (White bean paste) the traditional way.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have shiro koshi-an (smooth white sweet bean paste) using 2 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Shiro Koshi-an (Smooth White Sweet Bean Paste):
  1. Prepare 400 grams White kidney beans
  2. Take 1 Granulated sugar (60% of the weight of bean paste)

While Tsubuan Anko is bean paste containing whole beans, Koshian is a strained and smooth paste. Pre-made shiro-an (smooth sweet white bean paste) is hard to find. I think ichigo daifuku (strawberry mochi dumplings) are best with shiro-an. Cookpad - Make everyday cooking fun!

Steps to make Shiro Koshi-an (Smooth White Sweet Bean Paste):
  1. Remove any broken beans.
  2. Plan to soak the beans in water for 1 night in the summer and for 2 nights in the winter, until the beans lose their wrinkles and become smooth. Change the water twice a day.
  3. Put the beans in a pot, bring to a boil, and drain.
  4. Peel off the thin outer skins.
  5. The beans are all peeled.
  6. Put the peeled beans back in the pot with water to cover, and simmer until tender with a small lid that fits right on top of the pot contents (drop lid or otoshibuta). It took about 40 minutes.
  7. Put a sieve over a bowl filled with water, put the cooked beans and press through the sieve using the back of a ladle.
  8. Pass the bean paste through a fine mesh sieve again into a bowl filled with water.
  9. Strain the water from the bean paste using a clean cotton cloth (or cheesecloth).
  10. This is nama-an (unsweetened fresh bean paste).
  11. Weigh the nama-an (the unsweetened paste), and measure 60% of its weight in granulated sugar. (I had 656 g of nama-an, and 393 g of granulated sugar.)
  12. Put the nama-an and the granulated sugar in the pot and mix together over low heat.
  13. When it's well blended, add remaining granulated sugar and keep on mixing and kneading with a wooden spatula over low heat. It will be very hot, so be careful not to burn yourself!
  14. It will be creamy and loose to start, but keep on simmering and stirring until it reaches your desired consistency. It'll change texture in about 20 minutes.
  15. The photo above shows "sticky" bean paste. It's the right consistency for firm foundation like a mochi ball or on a dorayaki pancake.
  16. The photo above is a "moist" bean paste, or simmered about midway. It is nice and shiny, and can be used for a lot of things, such as filling mochi dumplings.
  17. The photo above is a 'floury' bean paste. It's quite stiff and potato-like in consistency. It's used for things like kashiwa-mochi (oak leaf-wrapped mochi cakes eaten in May) and sakura-mochi (cherry leaf-wrapped mochi cakes eaten in March to April). If you dry it out even further, it becomes the right consistency to use for nerikiri (a dough made with shiro-an and mochi).

The best place to find and share home cooked recipes. Shiro-an (Shiro Koshian) Smooth Sweetened White Bean. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RECIPE: White bean paste or Shiroan (白餡, 白あん) is a paste/filling used mainly for sweets, desserts and pastries in Japanese Cuisine. It's the more elegant version of Anko ( Red Bean Paste ) and it has a milder taste, perfect for those people that don't really enjoy the strong. Shiro-an (Japanese Sweet White Bean Paste).

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