(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)  2 cups azuki beans (small red beans)   4 cups water   1 teaspoon salt   200 grams raisins   5 grams agar powder   3 cups water for agar powder   Pinch of salt  2 cups apple juice   4 tablespoons rice malt syrup or beet sugar syrup   Seasonal fruits (kiwi fruit, blueberries, summer orange)   
   - Clean and rinse the organic azuki beans.
 - Put the beans in the pot and add 4 cups of water.
 - Cover the pot and turn the heat on, let the bean cooked.
 - Meanwhile, make the agar jelly by adding 500 milliliters water       into a pot.
 - Sprinkle the agar powder in and then heat up the water.
 - Cook it by keep stirring it until the agar powder dissolves.
 - Add in 2 pinches of salt into the agar powder, let the salt       dissolve.
 - When the water starts to boil, keep it boiling for 1 or 2       minutes. Watch it so it doesn’t spill over.
 - Pour it into a container, let it cools down a little, cover it,       and put it in the refrigerator to let it solidify.
 - Meanwhile, when the beans begin to boil, take the lid off, and       let it cook for a while. At this time, remove the foam of the beans, and       then turn the heat down to simmer.
 - And then put the lid back on.
 - When the beans float to the top, they are soft enough.
 - To make the syrup, pour in 2 cups of apple juice, boiled it       down by half.
 - Add in the syrup then cook for a while, and then pour it in a       container. When it cools down, refrigerate it.
 - When the beans are cooked, add in the raisins and some salt and       cook for another 5 minutes. The beans are cooked like jam, so it is called       bean jam anko.
 - Cut the fruits and the agar jelly.
 - Arrange them in a bowl. First, put the agar jelly in, and then       put the fruits in. Next, put the blueberries in.
 - Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out the bean jam and put it on       top. Put two scoops.
 - Sprinkle in the raisins, the syrup.
 - Put some syrup near, so we can add more if we would like.
 - Ready to be served.
 
 
  
	
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