Korean Pumpkin Porridge (Hobakjuk)
Easy pumpkin porridge dish. Find out exactly how to make Korean design pumpkin porridge!
Korean pumpkin porridge (Hobakjuk, 호박죽) is a preferred treat/ treat, yet some individuals also consume it for morning meal as well. It’s pleasant, nutty as well as creamy. An ideal home cooking in loss as well as winter months!
The Korean word– Hobak (호박) is a common term for pumpkin, squash (United States) as well as zucchini. However when we describe Hobakjuk (호박죽), it is typically made with danhobak (단호박), which is referred to as kabocha squash, Japanese pumpkin, as well as Kent pumpkin in some English talking nations.
To name a few advantages, pumpkin porridge is understood for minimizing swelling after surgical treatment in Korea. So it’s a preferred recover present.
The porridge is typically skilled with sugar, yet as kabocha squash is normally pleasant, you can lower it and even miss it per your choice.
Though while my sis was preference screening my dish, she claimed 1/4 mug sugar has to do with the correct amount to match the preference of shop got hobakjuk. However that much sugar offered me a migraine, so I chose to include much less sugar than that in my dish. (I’m just sharing this info in instance you intend to imitate the preference of shop got porridge. )
Korean pumpkin porridge has a creamy smooth structure so it is a preferred child food also. However if I were utilizing this dish for an infant, I would certainly leave out the sugar, salt as well as the rice cake rounds. Conversely, you can utilize this dish that I utilized for my child. It was just one of her preferred child foods in the pasts.
One more emphasize of Korean pumpkin porridge is rice cake rounds. (Some individuals could call it rice dumplings). These rounds are made with pleasant rice flour (mochiko) as well as its jelly like structure is fairly enjoyable to consume with the porridge. My sis thinks it’s the very best component!
Surprisingly, these rice cake rounds are called Saealsim (새알심) in Korea. That implies bird’s egg. It’s most likely called such as this due to the fact that they resemble little bird’s eggs.
Depending Upon exactly how you make use of these rounds, they can be utilized to enlarge your porridge, yet I generally utilize them as a garnish as well as make use of added parts of pleasant rice flour to enlarge the porridge.
Since all the fundamentals are covered, allow’s obtain food preparation! Hope you appreciate my dish!
P.S. If you like kabocha squash, do not neglect to take a look at my pumpkin flavor cappucino (without coffee) & & Korean design pumpkin cappucino (no coffee) dish! (Both dishes can be located in the very same web link.)
Active Ingredients for Korean Pumpkin Porridge, Offers 6
Key
- 1.7 kg/ 3.7 extra pounds (unpeeled weight) kabocha squash/ kent pumpkin or butternut squash
- 3 mugs water
- 1/4 mug pleasant rice flour
- 3 Tablespoon water
- 3 Tablespoon (raw) sugar or even more to taste
- 1/2 tsp great sea salt
Rice cake rounds ( Optional)– Make 30 little rounds
- 1/2 mug pleasant rice flour
- 1/4 tsp great sea salt
- 4 to 5 Tablespoon warm water
* 1 Tablespoon = 15 ml, 1 Mug = 250 ml
Exactly How to Make Pumpkin Porridge
1. Cut the pumpkin (kabocha squash) right into quadrants. Eliminate the seeds as well as fibrous little bits with a blade and/or spoon.
2. Area the pumpkin right into a cleaner as well as vapor them over rolling boiling water till the pumpkin hurts as well as soft. Cool the pumpkin till it’s simple to manage. Cut the skin off from the flesh as well as dispose of. Cut the pumpkin right into smaller sized pieces.
3. Area the pumpkin, water (3 mugs), sugar as well as the salt right into a blender or food processor. Mix it till pureed. Put the melted pumpkin right into a tool dimension pan as well as steam it over tool high warmth for 10 minutes. Mix it typically to prevent it shedding.
4. Integrate as well as blend the pleasant rice flour as well as the water (3 Tablespoon) in a tiny dish. It ought to be a sticky gluey structure. Slowly put it in to the pumpkin porridge as well as mix it continually to prevent swellings. Simmer the porridge over reduced warmth for an additional 3 minutes. Eliminate it from the warmth as well as offer. (Additionally, garnish with some rice cake rounds.)
The porridge can be offered cozy or cool. The extra part can be cooled for a couple of days or iced up for a month. It reheats well in a microwave yet see to it you cover with a microwaveable cover to prevent an unpleasant tidy up later on.
Exactly How to Make Rice Cake Balls
( This optional procedure can be done while the pumpkin porridge is steaming symphonious 3 above.)
1. Integrate the pleasant rice flour as well as salt. Slowly put the warm water over them as well as begin massaging with your hands. ( Look out for the warm temperature level. Though it cools quick. You can make use of a blending spoon originally till it’s secure to take care of with your hands.)
Make a huge dough after that transform it right into a lengthy slim cyndrical tube formed dough. Damage the dough right into smaller sized items (permit to make 30 little rounds) after that roll them on your hand, making little rice cake rounds. (You may be attracted to make larger rounds to conserve your time as well as labor, yet little rounds taste much better as well as it cancels well with the porridge amount.)
2. Steam some water in a tiny pot. When the water is quickly steaming delicately decrease in the rice cake rounds. Steam them for concerning 2 mins. (They will certainly sink to the base in the beginning after that they will certainly drift as they are prepared.)
Dig the rice cake rounds making use of a filter after that move them right into a dish with (cool) water after that established it apart till required.
3. Garnish on the pumpkin porridge.
Pumpkin Porridge (Hobakjuk)
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Active Ingredients
KEY
- 1.7 kg kabocha( 3.75 extra pounds) kent pumpkin or butternut squash (unpeeled weight)
- 3 mugs water
- 1/4 mug pleasant rice flour
- 3 Tablespoon water
- 3 Tablespoon sugar or even more to taste
- 1/2 tsp great sea salt
RICE CAKE SPHERE (OPTIONAL)– MAKE 30 SMALL ROUNDS
- 1/2 mug pleasant rice flour
- 1/4 tsp great sea salt
- 4 Tablespoon warm water( approximately 5 Tablespoon)
Directions
HOW TO MAKE PUMPKIN PORRIDGE
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Cut the pumpkin (kabocha squash) right into quadrants. Eliminate the seeds as well as fibrous little bits with a blade and/or spoon.
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Area the pumpkin right into a cleaner as well as vapor them over rolling boiling water till the pumpkin hurts as well as soft. Cool the pumpkin till it’s simple to manage. Cut the skin off from the flesh as well as dispose of. Cut the pumpkin right into smaller sized pieces.
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Area the pumpkin, water (3 mugs), sugar as well as the salt right into a blender or food processor. Mix it till pureed. Put the melted pumpkin right into a tool dimension pan as well as steam it over tool high warmth for 10 minutes. Mix it typically to prevent it shedding.
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Integrate as well as blend the pleasant rice flour as well as the water (3 Tablespoon) in a tiny dish. It ought to be a sticky gluey structure. Slowly put it in to the pumpkin porridge as well as mix it continually to prevent swellings. Simmer the porridge over reduced warmth for an additional 3 minutes. Eliminate it from the warmth as well as offer. (Additionally, garnish with some rice cake rounds.) The porridge can be offered cozy or cool. The extra part can be cooled for a couple of days or iced up for a month. It reheats well in a microwave yet see to it you cover with a microwaveable cover to prevent an unpleasant tidy up later on.
HOW TO MAKE RICE CAKE BALLS
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Integrate the pleasant rice flour as well as salt. Slowly put the warm water over them as well as begin massaging with your hands. (Look out for the warm temperature level. Though it cools quick. You can make use of a blending spoon originally till it’s secure to take care of with your hands.) Make a huge dough after that transform it right into a lengthy slim cyndrical tube formed dough. Damage the dough right into smaller sized items (permit to make 30 little rounds) after that roll them on your hand, making little rice cake rounds. (You may be attracted to make larger rounds to conserve your time as well as labor, yet little rounds taste much better as well as it cancels well with the porridge amount.)
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Steam some water in a tiny pot. When the water is quickly steaming delicately decrease in the rice cake rounds. Steam them for concerning 2 mins. (They will certainly sink to the base in the beginning after that they will certainly drift as they are prepared.) Dig the rice cake rounds making use of a filter after that move them right into a dish with (cool) water after that established it apart till required.
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Garnish on the pumpkin porridge.
Nourishment Details (per offering)
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