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Hobakjuk

Fall/winter squash porridge
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 5 lbs Fall pumpkin or squash
  • 4 c Chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1 3/4 c Glutinous rice flour
  • 1/4 tsp Kosher salt
  • 1 c Water, hot
  • 1 c Dry pat (adzukie beans)
  • 1 tbsp Coconut or brown sugar
  • 1/4 c Pumpkin seeds, untoasted and unsalted
  • 12 Jujubes, halved and pits removed
  • 1 Persimmon, sliced

Method
 

Prepare the squash soup base
  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Skin, halve, scoop out the seeds, cube, and roast for 25 minutes OR halve, scoop out the seeds, and roast for 40 minutes, until pierceable by a fork, and scoop out the flesh.
    butternut squash cubes
  3. Add the squash cubes or flesh to a heavy-bottom pot, and add 3-4 c of broth to cover. Simmer.
    butternut squash in broth
  4. Use an immersion blender to make the soup creamy. Add broth as needed.
    smooth soup
  5. Add coconut/brown sugar to taste.
  6. Mix 1/4 c rice flour into hot water, and blend in to make the soup creamier.
Pat
  1. If using dried pat, rehydrate overnight, and rinse well. Bring to a boil for about 7 minutes, then strain and rinse well. Otherwise, if using canned pat, strain and rinse well.
  2. Fold the pat into the soup, adjusting sugar to taste.
    pat in soup
Rice balls
  1. Meanwhile, make the rice balls. Use 1-1/2 c rice flour and a rounded 1/4 tsp salt, and add hot water to form a firm dough.
  2. Roll the dough into long lines of 1 inch thickness on a flour-dusted surface. Cut every 1 inch, and roll each piece into a ball.
    rice balls
  3. Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil, and add each rice ball, stirring. When the rice balls rise to the surface, they're done.
  4. Fold the rice balls into the soup.
    rice balls in soup
Garnishes
  1. Top each soup with 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds.
  2. If using jujubes, score them in half length-wise, and remove the pit.
  3. Add persimmons or other garnishes as desired.