Hobakjuk

South Korea · East Asia

Short description: This porridge is smooth, gently sweet, and built around pumpkin rather than grain alone.
Ingredients: Pumpkin, glutinous rice flour, sweet rice balls or red beans, salt, sugar, and water.
Cultural note: It is often served as a light meal or comfort food, with a texture closer to a thick puree than soup.
Common misconception: It is not pumpkin pie filling; the sweetness is restrained and the base is a cooked porridge.

image credit

creator:: Hyeon-Jeong Suk
source:: Flickr
license:: CC BY 2.0
modified:: Copied from Flickr and resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no content edits.