Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream Recipe

Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream is a Japanese-inspired dessert made with sweet red bean paste blended into creamy ice cream, offering a unique, subtly sweet flavor.

Make our Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream Recipe at home. Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream is a perfect way to end a Benihana meal or any other meal.

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Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream Recipe

Make our Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream Recipe at home. Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream is a perfect way to end a Benihana meal or any other meal.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Active Time3 hours hrs 30 minutes mins

Chilling, Churning and Freezing Time5 hours hrs

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Asian, Japanese

Keyword: Benihana

Yield: 8 Servings

Equipment

• Ice Cream Maker

Ingredients

Beans

• 1 cup Azuki Beans
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
• 3 1/2 cups Water

Custard Base

• 1 cup Milk
• 1 cup Heavy Cream
• 4 Egg Yolks
• 2/3 cup Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Instructions

Beans

• Wash beans.
• Place beans, sugar, lemon juice and water into a saucepan.
• Place saucepan over medium high heat and bring to boil. Boil uncovered for 3 minutes.
• Decrease heat to low. Cover pan and cook simmer until beans are very tender, adding additional water as needed, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
• When done, there should be a total of 3 cups beans and liquid. Adjust the liquid by adding more water or draining off some of the liquid to leave 3 cups total mixture.
• Let mixture cool 5 minutes.
• Strain the bean mixture through a sieve. Discard bean skins left in the sieve.
• Store the bean mixture, covered, in the refrigerator 2 to 3 hours until cold.

Custard Base

• Place a saucepan over medium heat.
• Add milk and cream. Bring up to a simmer. Adjust heat as needed.
• In a small bowl, combine egg yolks and sugar, stirring with a wire whisk until well mixed.
• Stir 1/4 cup of the hot cream/milk mixture into the egg/sugar mixture. Mix well.
• Pour egg/sugar mixture into milk/cream mixture in the saucepan.
• Place the saucepan over low heat. Cook and stir until mixture thickens a bit, about 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
• Place, covered, in the refrigerator, 2 to 3 hours until cold.

Ice Cream

• When ready to make ice cream, combine bean mixture and custard mixture.
• Place in your ice cream maker and process according manufacturers instructions. Enjoy cold.

Benihana Azuki Red Bean Ice Cream

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Photo of “2012-08-05_Kuri-Azuki-ice-cream” is by Omid Tavallai and is used by permission under the Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) Creative Commons License. Read the Full License Here – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode. Thank you, Omid. Great Picture. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes formally widely-circulated on the internet – courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.