Dishes made with red bean paste
14 dishes from around the world that list red bean paste as a main ingredient.
Mooncake月饼 / 月餅
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreA round Chinese pastry with sweet or nutty filling, eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival
Pie or savoury pastry, Tea time, Snacks
DangoVegan団子
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese sweet dumplings made from rice flour, often served on skewers
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
Zongzi粽子
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSticky rice parcels with sweet or savoury fillings, wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
DorayakiVegetarianどら焼き
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese sweet with red bean paste between two castella pancakes
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
DaifukuVegan大福餅
🇯🇵 JapanSmall mochi cakes filled with sweet bean paste or other fillings
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
Tangyuan汤圆 / 湯圓
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreGlutinous rice balls, often filled, served in sweet or savory broth
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
AnpanVegetarianあんパン
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese sweet roll filled with red bean paste or other fillings
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
YōkanVegan羊羹
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 moreA Japanese sweet block made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
Jian duiVegetarian
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreFried glutinous rice balls coated with sesame seeds and filled with sweet paste
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
SakuramochiVegetarian桜餅
🇯🇵 JapanSweet pink mochi filled with red bean paste and wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
BotamochiVeganぼたもち or 牡丹餅
🇯🇵 JapanSweet rice balls covered with red bean paste, eaten during spring and autumn in Japan
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
TanghuluVegan糖葫芦
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreSkewered fruit coated in a crisp sugar shell, a classic Northern Chinese street snack
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Qingtuan青团
🇨🇳 ChinaGreen glutinous rice dumpling filled with sweet or savory paste, eaten at Qingming Festival
Dumpling, Snacks
Kashiwa mochiVegan柏餅
🇯🇵 JapanSweet mochi with red bean paste, wrapped in an oak leaf for Children's Day in Japan
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Yōkan: Ocdp, CC0, source
- Sakuramochi: katorisi, CC BY 3.0, source
- Zongzi: The original uploader was Allentchang at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dango: Maakun, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dorayaki: Ocdp, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Daifuku: No machine-readable author provided. Lyzzy assumed (based on copyright, CC BY 2.5, source
- Anpan: Ocdp, CC0, source
- Tangyuan: cherrylet, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jian dui: PL09Puryono, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Botamochi: Tomomarusan, CC BY 2.5, source
- Tanghulu: Popo le Chien, CC0, source
- Mooncake: Lybil BER, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Qingtuan: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kashiwa mochi: Jiangang Wang, Public domain, source