Comforting soup and bread is perfect for a hearty meal. It is full of nutrition and quite filling with minimal cooking. Vegan adzuki beans soup actually resembles the quick Indian kidney beans curry, better known as Rajma masala. This adzuki beans recipe has some veggies added to it thus giving it good texture. Aduki beans are easy to cook and delicious too!
I loved having soups during Winter night market when I first moved to Melbourne. Queen Vic Market and other soup kitchens sell a great variety to help you cope with cold winter day and rainy Melburnian weather. Some years ago, there were not many options to eat for vegans and vegetarian. Now it is one of best places in the world to have vegan food.
Benefits of adzuki beans soup
There is something great about having hot soups , hydration. Hydration makes your skin glow and also keeps your gut healthy. Instead of having tablets, increase your water and liquid intake. Adzuki beans are rich in folates and calcium.
This vegan lentil dish can be eaten by kids to with some rice if you want to avoid giving them bread. Also, holds good for those who want to go gluten free. Beans also add protein and iron to your diet something you can easily get from plants and thus have a plant based meal.
Equipment
- Saucepan / dutch oven
- large bowl
- regular blender / immersion blender (if using homemade puree)
Key ingredients
- Adzuki beans (soaked in water for 3-4 hours or overnight)
- Onions - Use red or brown onions
- ginger garlic - Use them or skip them as per your liking.
- Tomato paste - Use fresh or canned tomatoes
- paprika - adjust as per your spice level
- garam masala - adjust as per your spice level
- Sweet potatoes - optional, add them to make the soup thicker.
- Oil
- Lemon juice - garnish at the last
- Salt and pepper as per taste
- Refer to recipe card for details.
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Instructions
Cooking dried adzuki beans is very similar to chickpeas and kidney beans. You can also use it to make aduki bean stew and adzuki bean bowl
- Soak beans in water for 30 mins. Discard water before you use.
How to cook adzuki beans soup?
- Heat oil in a pan and sauté onions, ginger,garlic and little salt for 3-4 minutes.
2. Add tomato puree and cook for 8-10 mins.
3. Allow it to come together as paste
4. Now, add paprika, salt and soup stock powder. mix well.
4. Add adzuki beans and mix well.
5. Now add water and let it come to a boil. Cover and Cook on medium flame until the beans are completely cooked.(at least 30 minutes)
5. Add sweet potato pieces and cook until they are soft(10 minutes), simmering over medium heat.
6. Adjust salt and pepper as per your taste. Turn off the heat, add lime juice. Serve hot with bread.
Related easy vegan lentil recipes
If you want to try Indian curry lentil soup or dal based recipes, you must try rasam and sambar. Both of them are usually served in South Indian thali with rice or with idli & dosa but you can always have them alone as a soup. There is no dearth of vegan lentil recipes in India as vegetarian cuisine in Indian context, contains only dairy. Most dals can be tempered with oil instead of ghee and this turns them vegan. Some other recipes you can try:
- 10 + easy vegan soup recipes
- Dal tadka
- black eyed peas curry/ lobia dal
- Pumpkin lentil curry
- Curried red lentils
vegan adzuki bean soup | Adzuki beans soup recipe
Equipment
- saucepan
Ingredients
- 1 cup adzuki beans soaked in water for 3-4 hours/overnight
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 medium onions chopped
- 1 piece ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1.5 cup tomato paste or 4-5 medium tomatoes
- 1 tbsp. paprika
- ½ tbsp. soup stock powder or garam masala if you like it spicy
- 4 cups water
- 1 medium sweet potato 1 medium sized sweet potato weighing 200 grams.
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice or as per taste
- salt and pepper as per taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan and sauté onions, ginger, garlic, and a pinch of salt for 3-4 minutes.
- Allow the tomato puree to cook for 8-10 minutes until it forms a paste.
- After adding paprika, salt, and soup stock powder, mix well.Stir thoroughly once you've added the adzuki beans.
- Put water in and let it boil. Cook on medium heat until the beans are completely cooked (minimum of 30 minutes).Simmer sweet potato pieces over low heat for 10 minutes until they turn tender
- Customize the salt and pepper to suit your preferences. Turn off the heat, add lime juice. Serve hot with bread.
Variations & Substitutions
You can add more veggies to it like cauliflower , red pepper, butternut squash, broccoli or yam if you like. Try a new flavor every week. Yummy and delicious! shiitake mushrooms and kale also taste great in this broth.You can make this from a can of lentils or any lentil soaked for 20 mins.
Top tip : Always drain the water from soaked raw lentils. You can use that to water your plants, if you want to avoid wastage.
You can cook this adzuki bean recipe in an instant pot, slow cooker, electric pressure cooker and even stovetop pressure cooker. However, cooking time will vary.
Storage
Store it in refrigerator for 2-3 days. Always reheat the soup before you eat.
FAQs
Soups and salads, brown rice, juice and fresh fruits like pear, plum, papaya, peaches, mangoes and low fat yogurt.
They are rich in calcium, iron and folates. Helps lower cholesterol and aids weight loss. As per traditional Chinese medicine it aids digestion, reduces inflammation, and helps regulate blood sugar levels.
Red beans, pinto beans, kidney beans or rajma, mung beans and cannellini beans is a good adzuki bean substitute.
Anko is a sweet red bean paste made with azuki beans. This is popular filling in Japanese sweets.
Anko is a sweet red bean paste made with azuki beans. This is popular filling in Japanese sweets.You can also use it to make red bean buns, sweet treats like
Japanese shiratama dango and red bean popsicles. It is also used to make Tang Yuan , Chinese tong sui (sweet red bean soup) in East Asia.
Conclusion: Large pot of comforting soups lile sweet dessert soup (sweet adzuki bean soup), adzuki bean soup, Mushroom Adzuki Bean Soup are a perfect treat in cold winter nights.
SANDRA says
This is probably stupid but it looks like garam masala is a spice but I do not know how much to use? My friend made this for me and it is great!
bhavana bhatia says
hi Sandra, you can start with 1 tsp of garam masala and increase that as per your personal choice as its little hot.
Randall Marx says
sweet potato is missing from the ingredients list
bhavana bhatia says
Apologies for that, have fixed it. thanks for noticing this.