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.

24 Comments:

  1. Aiyana

    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

    Posted December 23, 2009 at 2:24 am | #
  2. Lotusbean

    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.

    Posted February 11, 2009 at 11:43 am | #
  3. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    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

    Posted February 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm | #
  4. Lotusbean

    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!

    Posted February 10, 2009 at 11:14 am | #
  5. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    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? : )

    Posted January 29, 2009 at 11:18 pm | #
  6. pooopsicle

    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 ?

    Posted January 28, 2009 at 9:23 pm | #
  7. orangge

    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?

    Posted December 21, 2008 at 1:21 pm | #
  8. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

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

    Posted December 21, 2008 at 11:39 am | #
  9. chocolatie

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

    Posted December 21, 2008 at 10:49 am | #
  10. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

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

    Posted December 21, 2008 at 8:23 am | #
  11. orangge

    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.

    Posted December 21, 2008 at 5:12 am | #
  12. Jenny

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

    Posted December 4, 2008 at 9:42 am | #
  13. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    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!

    Posted December 4, 2008 at 9:12 am | #
  14. Jenny

    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?

    Posted December 4, 2008 at 8:55 am | #
  15. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

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

    Posted December 4, 2008 at 7:26 am | #
  16. Jenny

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

    Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:30 am | #
  17. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    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/

    Posted October 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm | #
  18. Chris

    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!

    Posted October 18, 2008 at 10:02 pm | #
  19. jo

    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!

    Posted October 6, 2008 at 4:42 pm | #
  20. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

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

    Posted September 30, 2008 at 7:42 am | #
  21. jackie

    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?

    Posted September 29, 2008 at 9:23 pm | #
  22. Xandra

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

    Posted September 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm | #
  23. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

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

    Posted August 23, 2008 at 9:50 am | #
  24. Yongwonghi

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

    Posted August 23, 2008 at 8:49 am | #

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