7) Grandmother PORRIDGE and TIGER

Let's learn about the warm winter food of Korean vegetarians

 

What do you make of red bean porridge( Patjuk )?

That's a very obvious question  One more time I took it for granted.

Red bean porridge is made from red beans

 

What is the origin of korea red bean porridge?

Dongjitsu Day is around December 22-23, the longest night and shortest day of the year. In the past, Dongji used to be called 'Little New Year' and said that one year older would be better if one had to boil red bean porridge on that day. In addition, there were various customs such as sprinkling red bean porridge on gates because the red color of red beans repels evil spirits and prevents bad luck, and eating them in the neighborhood when they moved in

 

How do you make red bean porridge?

■ ingredients
1/2 cup soaked rice, 1 cup adzuki bean, Saealshim ( 1/2 cup glutinous rice flour, 1 tablespoon water, 
1 teaspoon ginger), salt.

■ How to make it
1. Wash rice and soak it in water for 3 hours.
2. Wash the red beans, pour water and when it boils, pour out the water, pour back five cups of water  and boil the red beans until they are fully ripe.
3. Sieve the red beans. At this time, add boiled red bean water to avoid the skin and settle the sediment
4. Pour soaked rice and boiled red bean paste water into a pot and boil it until the rice spreads, then  add more red bean paste in the middle and boil it. The fire in the middle will kill you.
5. Put ginger juice in glutinous rice flour and knead with warm water to make saealsim about 1cm in diameter 
6. Boil or boil it in boiling water, season it with salt, and then mix it with water kimchi. If you don't    make Sae-al-shim, use the boiled red beans as garnish.

[Naver's Knowledge Encyclopedia] Red bean porridge - Meeting Rice with Cooking (rice, September 17, Choi Sun-ho

 

What effect will it have on red beans that go into red bean porridge?

1. Rich in nutrition and good for diuretic effects

2. promotes digestion and is effective for constipation

3. It's good for relieving hangovers and clears your blood

 

An interesting story about red bean porridge

Grandmother Patjuk and Tiger

An old woman living alone in the mountains is planting red beans in the field, and a big tiger appears  and tries to eat her. Grandmother asks me to wait until she finishes her red bean farming and eats red bean porridge on the winter solstice. As summer and autumn pass and winter solstice approaches the time when tigers come, grandmother tears as she pours red bean porridge. In front of her, chestnut, awl, dog poop, millstone, turtle, stone, and black crab came one after another and asked for red bean porridge. And he gets a bowl of red bean porridge and says he will help him defeat the tiger. When the tiger came down from the mountain at night and asked for red bean porridge, Grandma told the tiger to go to the kitchen and eat it. The tiger that enters the kitchen gets hit in the eyes by the night and bites the turtle's nose when he is blind. He also slips in dog droppings, is stabbed in a pine cone, and is killed by a millstone. A horse with a tiger on its back and throws it into a deep river.
Grandmother Patjuk and Tiger (Korean Folk Literature Dictionary (Snowpiercer))

a moral lesson

The hard-earned red beans and the old lady's life. 
The tiger symbolizes the greedy power, and the animals and objects that save the grandmother against it symbolize the weak and the people. This story is very humble. It teaches a lesson that even a weak being can solve any difficulties by pooling wisdom and joining forces.

 

Make this fun and nutritious red bean porridge and try it a lot.