Sweet red bean soup

Name: Sweet red bean soup (Danpatjuk)
Cuisine: Korean

Danpatjuk 단팥죽

Ingredients

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

Directions

In a pot, place 1 cup of washed red beans and 4 cups of water and heat it over high heat for 10 minutes.
Lower the heat to low medium and simmer for 50 minutes.
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.
Add 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 ts of kosher salt, 1 ts of cinnamon powder into the red bean paste and set it aside.

Put the red bean paste in a pot.
Pour some water (about 4- 5 cups) and 1 cup of sugar (depends on your taste) and boil it.
Mix one cup of sweet rice powder, a pinch of salt and 1 tbs of sugar in a bowl.
Add ½ 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 ½ cup of hot water to make your dough and put more hot water while kneading the dough)
Make small rice balls with the dough about 0.5 cm diameter.
When the red bean soup boils, add the rice balls and cook it.
Keep stirring the soup and it will get thicker.
Ladle the soup into a bowl and add a few pine nuts on top and sprinkle some cinnamon powder and serve it.

Posted on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 8:18 pm. Last updated on July 30, 2021.
Tagged: danpatjuk, 단팥죽, korean dessert, korean food, Korean recipes, redbeans, sweet red bean soup

51 Comments:

amiekim joined 10/10 & has 2 comments
Posted March 11th, 2015 at 4:45 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Is it true that you add 1 cup of sugar… twice? So that the total amount of sugar would be about 2 cups + 1 tbsp?
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted March 11th, 2015 at 7:11 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  Yes, danpatjuk is very sweet dessert. But you could use less sugar depending on your taste. Check out the direction 2.
  Good luck with making delicious danpatjuk!
kellywu678 Riverside joined 10/13 & has 1 comment
Posted October 14th, 2013 at 5:35 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Hi Maangchi, can you make a video of this recipes please? I try to make it
Thank you
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted October 15th, 2013 at 6:33 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  oh that’s a good idea. I will keep it in mind. Thanks!
yvonne84 Netherlands joined 7/13 & has 3 comments
Posted September 1st, 2013 at 3:33 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Dear Maangchi, where can I find how many servings this (and other) recipes makes?
I might have overlooked, however I have not found how many servings the recipes make.
Thank you for your time.
ps; I love red bean products and most korean food, it is so healthy and delicious.
I recommend your site to many of my friends and colleagues, and they all love it.
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted October 15th, 2013 at 6:35 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  I think you can serve 2-4 people.
Ivy Malaysia joined 8/11 & has 3 comments
Posted May 25th, 2013 at 5:59 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Hi Maangchi, I tried to make the rice ball. After kneading, it is very very sticky, when cooked it, the texture is very soft and doesn’t have the “springy” feel when eat it. Why is it like that? Any step that I might have done wrongly?
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted May 25th, 2013 at 10:46 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  “After kneading, it is very very sticky” Maybe the dough needs more rice flour? And the rice cake balls are more chewy when the porridge cools down.
  - Ivy Malaysia joined 8/11 & has 3 comments
    Posted May 30th, 2013 at 11:30 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.
    
    Thanks, Maangchi! I think I have put too much water or bought wrong powder.
    Will try again next time..:-)
    - Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
      Posted May 31st, 2013 at 6:12 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
      
      great!
jclechat joined 6/10 & has 3 comments
Posted December 29th, 2011 at 2:13 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Hi Maangchi! I had difficulty getting the red beans to properly soften. Would pre-soaking them help or should I just keep simmering them until they are soft enough? Thank you!
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted December 29th, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  Use a pressure cooker or simmer for a long time until very soft. You can add more water if water runs out.
eera94 kuala lumpur joined 12/11 & has 7 comments
Posted December 17th, 2011 at 11:14 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.

did u make video on how to make it? Because i cant find it..
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted December 17th, 2011 at 11:50 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  
  yeah, sorry it doesn’t have a video. But someday I will make a video for this recipe. Happy cooking!
  - eera94 kuala lumpur joined 12/11 & has 7 comments
    Posted December 18th, 2011 at 2:38 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
    
    hehe..thank you..! <3
MrsKim Elko, NV joined 3/09 & has 7 comments
Posted August 20th, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.

Maangchi, I have a 17 .6 oz/500g (5 servings of 1/3 cup in the packet so almost 2 cups) packet of red bean paste. How would that equate to the paste made from 1 cup of red beans?
Soygirl379 Sacramento, CA joined 2/11 & has 3 comments
Posted February 20th, 2011 at 5:16 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.

I would also like to learn how to make Patjuk! Can you put the recipe on ur site?