Sweet bean paste
White bean paste
Chinese	豆沙
Hanyu Pinyin	dòu shā
Jyutping	dau6 saa1
Literal meaning	bean sand
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin dòu shā Yue: Cantonese Jyutping dau6 saa1

Sweet bean paste is a food ingredient used throughoutEast Asian cuisine, primarily as a filling for sweet desserts and pastries.

Thebeans are usually boiled without sugar, mashed, and diluted into aslurry. The slurry is then strained through a sieve to remove the husks. The resulting liquid is then filtered and squeezed dry using cheesecloth, and then finally sweetened. Oil in the form of eithervegetable oil orlard is usually added to the relatively dry paste to improve its texture andmouthfeel.^{[citation needed]}

Oiled sweet bean paste is mainly found as fillings for Chinese pastries, while un-oiled sweet bean pastes can be used to maketong sui.Japanese pastries use primarily un-oiled sweet bean pastes.^{[citation needed]}

There are several types of sweet bean paste:

• Oil bean paste (油豆沙) – made fromadzuki beans; dark brown or black in colour from the addition of sugar and animal fat or vegetable oil, and further cooking; sometimes also includessweet osmanthus flavor
• Mung bean paste (綠豆沙) – made from mung beans and dull reddish purple in colour
• Red bean paste (紅豆沙) – made fromadzuki beans and dark red in colour
• White bean paste [ja] (白豆沙) – made fromnavy beans and greyish off-white in colour^photo
• Black bean potato paste (黑豆沙) – made from blacksoybean powder (黑豆面) andpotatoes; used inBeijing cuisine and other cuisines of northern China^photo

There are a number of other pastes used in Chinese cuisine, primarily as fillings for dessert items. Although not made from beans, they share similar usage and are equally popular. They are very similar in flavor and texture to sweet bean paste. These include:

• Lotus seed paste
• Blacksesame paste

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  Chinese pancake using sweet bean paste as an ingredient
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  Fillingsongpyeon withmung bean paste
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  Sandwich inNagoya
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  Making bean pasteflower

• Bean dip
• Fermented bean paste

• Hsiung, Deh-Ta (2000).The Chinese Kitchen: A Book of Essential Ingredients with Over 200 Easy and Authentic Recipes. Foreword by Ken Hom. St. Martin's Press.ISBN 0-312-24699-4.ISBN 978-0-312-24699-0.[1]

• Chinese cuisine
• East Asian cuisine
• Food paste
• Japanese cuisine
• Korean cuisine

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