(knife chopping)
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- Yay, 2023!
Happy New Year everybody!
If you visit my channel for the first time,
welcome, lots of welcome,
and if you're a regular visitor,
welcome back and let's keep cooking
delicious Korean food this year, too.
For the new year, I chose a very easy, simple
and delicious and nutritious and healthy recipe, jatjuk.
Jatjuk is pine nut porridge. Pine nuts and rice.
That's all we need.
Okay, let's get started.
Half cup short grain rice.
(rice tapping on plastic)
I'm going to wash and soak in cold water.
(water running)
(rice rattles)
Scrubbing like this, and.
(water running)
Rinse, so, milky water, we gotta remove this.
(water running)
Like this.
Already I pre-soaked this, one hour ago.
You can soak the rice in one or two hours,
even overnight is okay.
I just washed this
and this one was soaked one hour ago,
so it's opaque, kind of a white color.
So, we need this.
(rice tapping) (water dripping)
Put this in the blender.
(spoon scraping strainer)
Quarter cup pine nuts, (bag crinkling)
and I'm going to wash it.
(water running)
Okay, I will add these pine nuts.
(water pouring)
I will use around two cups.
After grinding, I'm going to wash
with this leftover water.
(blender whirring)
I blended for one minute.
(liquid pouring)
With leftover water.
(water pouring)
Some people love that, they say:
"I want to taste some texture"
then you can grind for less time,
but for me, I like the jatjuk
that should be really smooth.
(burner ignition clicking)
So first, start medium high heat and stir.
(wooden spoon tapping pot)
Keep stirring, and until you see that
it's thicker, you see,
on the bottom, already, look at that.
Some sticky stuff, it should not be burned.
This jatjuk, pine nut porridge,
is very special in Korean cuisine
and because jat, pine nuts, are very precious,
and also very expensive and also very nutritious,
and it has a lot of medicinal uses.
Five minutes after, it's really thick like this,
but I want to make it thinner
and also a little bit translucent.
So, I will turn down the heat to medium.
Bubbles are popping up and add salt, and stirring.
(wooden spoon tapping on pot)
Nice and smooth.
Okay, good.
So, I'm going to make a nice beautiful garnish,
but this is optional.
You guys can eat it just by itself, like this.
You can serve this.
So this is jujube, large size
and red color, beautiful jujube.
Cut like this until the tip
of your knife touches the seed, all right.
And then cut, cut and turn around,
so that we can de-seed.
You see, this is the seed.
Okay, and put pine nuts
because this is a pine nut porridge, like this.
Grab this tightly so that pine nuts,
and it makes this nice kind of sticky stuff.
And it makes one lump.
(knife cutting jujube)
So, here you go,
we got these, we got three flowers.
(ladle hitting pot) (porridge pouring into bowl)
We made the jatjuk together.
So easy, isn't it?
So, let me taste.
(spoon tapping on bowl)
Mm!
Oh my, so good.
Tasty, nutty.
Hmm, pine needle kind of flavor.
Just subtle, you can feel.
Oh, so good.
Pine nuts are so, so nutritious,
and it has like lots of protein and good fat,
and also magnesium, calcium and iron.
It has a lot of iron.
That's why when you finish eating this jatjuk,
you feel it, your energy is boosted,
and that's why when Koreans are recovering
from a recent disease,
or even just a small cold.
I'm making jatjuk for you.
I made with a half cup rice and quarter cup of pine nuts.
And we made a lot.
So, you guys can make it.
I will have two bowls.
One bowl is not enough for me.
(laughing) I love it.
If you are planning a Korean food party,
it can be used as an appetizer.
Today we made jatjuk, pine nut porridge.
Enjoy my recipe.
See you next time, bye!
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