Maangchi Korean Red Bean Rice and Sides
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Official cooking video · Maangchi · YOUTUBEKorean Azuki Bean Rice (Patbap, 4 servings)
Traditional Korean rice cooked with fully softened azuki beans and their tinted cooking water, not a sweet red-bean porridge.
Ingredients
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Steps
- 01
Rinse 1/2 cup azuki beans and boil them with 4 cups water over medium-high for 10 minutes.
- 02
Lower heat and simmer about 50 more minutes until beans are soft and mashable. Reserve and cool the red liquid.
- 03
Add 2 1/2 cups cooled bean liquid (top up with water) to 2 cups rinsed rice. Add cooked beans and 1/2 tsp salt; soak 30 minutes.
- 04
Bring to a boil for about 10 minutes over medium-high, then gently turn the rice.
- 05
Cover and cook on very low heat for another 10 minutes until rice is fully cooked. Rest off heat and serve.
- 06
Divide leftover rice into shallow containers, cool quickly and refrigerate within two hours.
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Before you cook
Use azuki beans rather than kidney beans, which require different safe preparation. Fully cook beans and chill leftover rice within two hours.
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