diff --git a/docs/user/tutorial-asgi.rst b/docs/user/tutorial-asgi.rst
index 12b9682c0..65ffa2fa9 100644
--- a/docs/user/tutorial-asgi.rst
+++ b/docs/user/tutorial-asgi.rst
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ any problems with importing local utility modules or checking code coverage::
   $ mkdir -p tests
   $ touch tests/__init__.py
 
-Next, let's implement fixtures to replace ``uuid`` and ``aioredis``, and inject them
+Next, let's implement fixtures to replace ``uuid`` and ``redis``, and inject them
 into our tests via ``conftest.py`` (place your code in the newly created ``tests``
 directory):
 
diff --git a/examples/asgilook/asgilook/config.py b/examples/asgilook/asgilook/config.py
index 9b997d413..e5ac12c5b 100644
--- a/examples/asgilook/asgilook/config.py
+++ b/examples/asgilook/asgilook/config.py
@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
 import os
 import pathlib
+import redis.asyncio
 import uuid
 
 
-def from_url_wrapper(url):
-    pool = redis.ConnectionPool.from_url(url)
-    return redis.Redis.from_pool(pool)
-
-
 class Config:
     DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH = '/tmp/asgilook'
     DEFAULT_MIN_THUMB_SIZE = 64
+    DEFAULT_REDIS_FROM_URL = redis.asyncio.from_url
     DEFAULT_REDIS_HOST = 'redis://localhost'
     DEFAULT_UUID_GENERATOR = uuid.uuid4
-    DEFAULT_REDIS_FROM_URL = from_url_wrapper
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.storage_path = pathlib.Path(
diff --git a/examples/asgilook/requirements/asgilook b/examples/asgilook/requirements/asgilook
index c0081cbf5..7f716db72 100644
--- a/examples/asgilook/requirements/asgilook
+++ b/examples/asgilook/requirements/asgilook
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 aiofiles>=0.4.0
-aioredis>=2.0
+redis>=5.0
 msgpack
 Pillow>=6.0.0