Korean recipes:

Sweet red bean soup (danpatjuk)

Ingredients:
red bean paste, sweet rice flour, boiling water, sugar, pine nuts, cinnamon powder.

Here is the recipe for how to make red bean paste.

  1. In a pot, place 1 cup of washed red beans and 4 cups of water and heat it over high heat for 10 minutes.
  2. Lower the heat to low medium and simmer for 50 minutes.
  3. Check if the beans are cooked fully. Remove extra water from the beans and crush them with a wooden spoon or use your food processor to grind it.
  4. Add 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 ts of salt, 1 ts of cinnamon powder into the red bean paste and set it aside.




  1. Put the red bean paste in a pot.
  2. Pour some water (about 4- 5 cups) and 1 cup of sugar (depends on your taste) and boil it.
  3. Mix one cup of sweet rice powder, a pinch of salt and 1 tbs of sugar in a bowl.
  4. Add 1/2 cup-1 cup of hot water in “3″ and mix it with a spoon first and fold it by hand to make dough. (The amount of hot water varies depending on the dryness of sweet rice powder you use, so first use 1/2 cup of hot water to make your dough and put more hot water while kneading the dough)
  5. Make small rice balls with the dough about 0.5 cm diameter.
  6. When the red bean soup boils, add the rice balls and cook it.
  7. Keep stirring the soup and it will get thicker.
  8. Ladle the soup into a bowl and add a few pine nuts on top and sprinkle some cinnamon powder and serve it.

28 Comments:

  1. cel My profile page joined 6/10
    Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:11 pm | # |

    hi maangchi,
    can I use granulated rice flour instead of the sweet rice cake?
    thx:)

    • Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
      Posted June 28th, 2010 at 7:53 pm | # |

      Are you talking about glutinous rice flour? If so, yes, you can use it. Glutinour rice flour is sweet rice flour.

  2. Laury Tan rowland heights, california My profile page I'm a fan! joined 3/10
    Posted May 20th, 2010 at 11:02 pm | # |

    maangchi, could you explain to me step 4 again? i don’t really get it~ D:

    • Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
      Posted May 21st, 2010 at 10:00 am | # |

      step 3 and 4 are directions to make dough for rice cake balls.
      In step 3, dried ingredients are placed in a bowl. In step 4, it says you will add hot water to the dried sweet rice flour and mix and knead it.

  3. Aiyana
    Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 2:24 am | # |

    Hi maangchi it’s nice to see you this sweet red beans soup looks delicious i wanna try this thanks for posting this recipes i can’t wait to try this

  4. Lotusbean
    Posted February 11th, 2009 at 11:43 am | # |

    My friend told me about yoongyang dduk from a bakery she went to while visiting Koreatown. Maybe it was their special recipe. My mother used to make a kind of dduk that was brown rice and very glutinous. It had red bean,dates,pistachios, and mung bean. Does this sound familiar to you? I don’t know the name and I would love to try to find some or make it at home.

  5. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted February 10th, 2009 at 7:51 pm | # |

    Lotusbean,
    sure, Yahshik is included in the list of my upcoming recipes. What is yongyang dduk? yongyang means “nutrition”. Leave your message on the forum if you want to discuss Yongyangdduk.
    http://www.maangchi.com/talk/forum/general-discussion

  6. Lotusbean
    Posted February 10th, 2009 at 11:14 am | # |

    I forgot about this porridge! I haven’t had it since I was a child. Thank you for bringing me smiles. Can you post a recipe for yakshik and/or yong yang dduk? Thank you, Maangchi for all your delicious recipes!

  7. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted January 29th, 2009 at 11:18 pm | # |

    orangge,
    sorry I just see your question. Dongji day, we usually eat red bean porridge.

    pooopsicle,
    how about between 0.5 cm and 1 cm diameter? : )

  8. pooopsicle
    Posted January 28th, 2009 at 9:23 pm | # |

    Oh my, I made something very similar to this just yesterday : D
    I was wondering, when you said make the balls 0.5 cm in diameter, that’s quite tiny isn’t it ?
    Should they be the same size as the rice balls in your pumpkin porridge recipe ?

  9. orangge
    Posted December 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pm | # |

    Last year the dong zhi (冬至) festival was falled on 22 Dec. However, it is on 21 Dec this year based on the chinese calendar. The rice ball is called Tang Yuan (汤圆) in Chinese. It’s either filled or unfilled. The filling can be anything like peanut, red bean, chocolate, pumpkin, yam, etc or anything you like. Usually how are you celebrate dongji festival?

  10. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted December 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am | # |

    chocolatie,
    yes hodduk recipe will be posted someday in the future. Thank you,

  11. chocolatie
    Posted December 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am | # |

    This looks really good! :)
    I was wondering if you could post a recipe for ho dduk?

  12. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted December 21st, 2008 at 8:23 am | # |

    orangge,
    Dec.22 is dongji festival day in Korea. We eat porridge made with red beans. tang yuan? interesting!

  13. orangge
    Posted December 21st, 2008 at 5:12 am | # |

    I used this recipe to cook the tang yuan (the rice ball) with the read bean soup which inside the rice ball i added some dark chocolate because today it’s dongzhi festival or Winter Solstice Festival for chinese. Traditionally, during this festival, we must eat the tang yuan symbolise reunion.

  14. Jenny
    Posted December 4th, 2008 at 9:42 am | # |

    Yes that is it ^_^
    i used to love that when my mother made it for me
    thank you so much!

  15. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted December 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am | # |

    Jenny,
    oh, I think it’s “kongbiji jjigae”. It is made with ground soybeans, vegetables, and pork. I usually don’t use kimchi, but some people use it. Anyway, it’s included in the list of my upcoming video recipes. It reminds me of my grandmother’s biji jjigae this morning. It was very delicious!

  16. Jenny
    Posted December 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am | # |

    Hi Maangchi,
    Sorry i posted on the wrong section
    but bbi ji gah is the mong jong bean (bean stew with kimchi and sam gup sal?)all i remember when my mother used to make it was that she used to put these majong beans in water over night like the soy beans and grind it? Was a pinkish color because of the kimchi….Do you know which one i am talking about?

  17. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted December 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am | # |

    Jenny,
    bossam and tangsuyuk qre included in the list of my requested dishes, but what is bbi ji gah?

  18. Jenny
    Posted December 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am | # |

    Can you put up the recipe for bbi ji gah? and for bo ssam?
    and tangseuyeuk?

  19. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted October 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm | # |

    Jo,
    let me know how your korean cooking turns out.

    Chris,
    Thanks a lot, I haven’t posted patbingsu video recipe yet, but someday I will.
    This is the photo of patbingsu
    http://blog.maangchi.com/uploaded_images/patbingsu-752801.jpg

    http://noshowerfamily.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/red-bean-and-milk-snow-flower/

  20. Chris
    Posted October 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm | # |

    Hi Maangchi!

    It’s morning in Singapore. The moment I woke up,I entered this BRILLIANT webpage of yours.

    Cut short with the formality, I was looking at the posts here and was wondering what patbingsoo is. Have you uploaded the video recipe for patbingsoo yet? Very curious… If you have the time, could you upload the video for the sweet red bean soup? (P.S. Sorry to have so many requests and questions all the time. Hope I’m not disturbing you!)

    I wish you all the best in your AMAZING cooking career! Bye for now!

  21. jo
    Posted October 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm | # |

    hi, i’m planning on using your recipe this weekend and was wondering about how much red bean paste i should use. thanks a lot!

  22. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted September 30th, 2008 at 7:42 am | # |

    jackie,
    oh, it’s shikhye (rice cold drink) in Korean. It’s already included in the list of my upcoming video recipes. Thank you

  23. jackie
    Posted September 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm | # |

    hi! i love it!
    After making this, i am wondering can you post up how to make the cold rice drink that is served after a meal?

  24. Xandra
    Posted September 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm | # |

    I was wondering about how red bean paste do you use?

  25. Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
    Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am | # |

    Yongwonghi
    hi, sure, someday when I get a ice shaver, I will post the recipe for patbingsoo . Thanks

  26. Yongwonghi
    Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 8:49 am | # |

    hi, i’m wondering if you could put up a recipe on pat bing soo and what it is..


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