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Red-bean porridge

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What exactly is it?

Cooked red beans are mashed and strained, then simmered with rice or chewy rice-dough balls. A rice-containing pat-juk meal differs from a sweet danpat-juk dessert. Small rice cakes may sit inside the thick reddish-brown porridge.

Main ingredients

Red beans, rice or glutinous-rice dough balls, water, salt or sugar

Ordering and serving

If sugar and salt are provided, taste first and add a little to suit you. When choosing a filling meal, distinguish sweet dessert-style danpat-juk from a rice-containing porridge.

Origins and changes

The winter-solstice custom reflects an old belief that red beans warded off harmful spirits. Pat-juk also served as a warming roadside meal. These are cultural associations, not evidence of medical effects.

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Red-bean porridge

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Main ingredients: Red beans, rice or glutinous-rice dough balls, water, salt or sugar
Flavor and character: Cooked red beans are mashed and strained, then simmered with rice or chewy rice-dough balls. A rice-containing pat-juk meal differs from a sweet danpat-juk dessert. Small rice cakes may sit inside the thick reddish-brown porridge.
How to eat it: If sugar and salt are provided, taste first and add a little to suit you. When choosing a filling meal, distinguish sweet dessert-style danpat-juk from a rice-containing porridge.

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How to eat it: Ask specifically for plain huin-juk if that is what you want. Abalone or beef porridge is not the same as plain rice porridge. Soy-braised meat or fermented seafood may arrive separately as accompaniments.

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