Shiro-an (白あん) - Sweet Butter bean paste
Shiro-an (白あん) - Sweet Butter bean paste

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Drain and remove the bean skin. Put the beans in a pan and add the sugar and salt. 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 (白いんげん豆). The beans are hulled, simmered till tender, drained, and pureed/passed through before sugar is added to sweeten the paste.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have shiro-an (白あん) - sweet butter bean paste using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Shiro-an (白あん) - Sweet Butter bean paste:
  1. Get 1 tined Butter beans in water (235g)
  2. Get 80 g ~ 120g sugar
  3. Take pinch salt

It's the chunky type, and you keep the beans mostly intact. 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 Anjo Bean flavour. 'Shiro-An' is one of the main ' An/Anko ' Sweet Bean Pastes for Japanese Sweets which is made from white beans such as Butter Beans or White Kidney Beans. There are two types of An (sweet bean paste) in Japan.

Instructions to make Shiro-an (白あん) - Sweet Butter bean paste:
  1. Drain and remove the bean skin.
  2. Put the beans in a pan and add the sugar and salt. Bring to the boil.
  3. Reduce the heat. Simmer and keep stiring. Make a very thick paste.
  4. Filling for pies, muffins etc. Azuki beans for Kuro-an (黒あん), black bean paste.
  5. If you use dry beans. Soak them over night and cook until soft. Go to No. 1.

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 Anjo Bean flavour. 'Shiro-An' is one of the main ' An/Anko ' Sweet Bean Pastes for Japanese Sweets which is made from white beans such as Butter Beans or White Kidney Beans. There are two types of An (sweet bean paste) in Japan. They are called Kuroan and Shiroan. They are classified by their colour, so kuroan is black and shiroan is white. However kuroan is much more of a red than black, but anyway.

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