Red beans soup with mochi (Shiruko) 年糕小豆汤

It's Chinese New Year. My family have the tradition of eating rice cakes on Chinese New Year. Although I'm not at home this year to celebrate with them, I made myself red beans with mochi.

Actually the red beans soup with mochi is from Japanese. It is called Shiruko in Japanese. I first learnt the name from one classic textbook that most people used to learn Japanese.

It is easy to cook. All you need are red beans, sugar, and rice cakes.

Method

1. Soak red beans in water for at least 4 hours.
2. Put soaked red beans in a saucepan and cover with water. Boil the beans for 10min and simmer for 1 - 1.5 hours.
3. Add sugar and cook in low heat for 5 -10 min.
4. Add mochi, boil and simmer for another 2 min.
5. Done!

我们家在过年的时候都会吃年糕。今年我没在家跟大家一起庆祝新年，不过我给自己做了年糕小豆汤。

这其实是个日本点心，日语名字叫お汁粉(oshiruko)，学过标准日本语的同学们可能还有印象。上周逛日本超市正好看到年糕，就想在家做一下。

材料很简单，红豆、糖、年糕。

做法：

1. 红豆浸泡四小时以上。
2. 泡过的红豆加水煮沸，沸腾约十分钟后转小火慢炖一小时到一个半小时。
3. 按自己口味加糖，小火继续煮5-10分钟。
4. 加入年糕，煮沸后转小火煮2分钟。（我买的年糕很容易煮软，2分钟足够了。大家根据自己的年糕调节时间。）
5. 完成！

For your reference, this is the mochi I bought from Japanese supermarket.
在日本超市买的年糕长这样。

Thank you for reading!
感谢阅读！