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Looking for something cooling on a hot, humid day? Across East Asia there’s just about nothing more popular for taking the edge off the heat than a red bean pop. Known as hung dau syut tiu in Cantonese, this creamy, lightly sweetened frozen treat takes advantage of the nutty flavor of red beans for a unique refresher on a stick. In addition to the richness of the beans, the ice-cream-like texture of the pops can come from a number of ingredients: milk, cream, condensed milk or even coconut milk. In this recipe we used dried red adzuki beans because they cook fast (especially with the addition of baking soda, which helps the beans soften quickly) and they’re a bit smoother than typical red beans. This recipe has a higher proportion of cream to milk to lower the chance of ice crystals forming in the pops, plus condensed milk for an extra-thick, rich base.
