Ein Stückchen Heimat

I felt a little bit homesick today, so I decided to make a Vietnamese dessert, which my mother often cooks. It is kind of a sweet bean soup, which you can eat warm or cold. It is a very common dish in Vietnam. It is called che.
It is basically only beans cooked in water and (lots of) sugar. My mother makes it with red or black beans (dau den/dau do) or with green yellowish lentils (dau xanh=Mungobohnen). Sorry, I do not know the exact names for these ingredients. So I do not know at all, if the beans that I find here in the Japanese supermarket are the same. Today, I picked this out:

Red beans, but I cannot read the Kanji. There are several kinds of red beans in the supermarket here, some bigger, some smaller. This is a smaller kind. I think they are Azuki beans, but not sure at all.

Actually you are supposed to soak these beans over night, but I tried it without and just cooked them like that for 45 minutes. The texture turned out a little bit too soft in the end, and they are definitely not the beans my mother uses. I will buy the bigger beans next time. And I did not have Vanillezucker (vanillin flavor).

But it tasted good anyways. There exist so many varieties of this kind of Vietnamese dessert, with different and many more ingredients. There are some with ice, coconut milk or banana for example. But I love this variation best. So simple and delicious ^^

Feel free to google it... ;)