Rice with red beans

Ingredients:

• ½ cup red beans (Azuki beans)
• 2 cups short grain rice
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions:

Prepare the beans

1. Rinse the beans in cold water and strain. Put in a heavy pot with 4 cups of water. Boil for 10 minutes over medium high heat. Then turn down the heat and cook for 50 minutes.
2. Strain the beans and reserve the red bean water to make rice with later. Let the water cool down thoroughly.
   

Prepare the rice

1. Put the rice into a heavy bottomed pot. Rinse in cold water and drain, then scrub the wet rice with your hand.
2. Rinse and drain a couple of times until the drained water is clear, then drain out the last of the water by tilting the pot as much as you can.
3. Add the cooled down red bean water. We need 2½ cups so if you don’t have enough make up the difference with clear water. Add the cooked red beans and salt. Let it soak for 30 minutes.

Make patbap

1. Boil for 10 minutes over medium high heat.
2. Open the lid and mix it up from top to bottom so everything is cooked evenly. Cover, turn down the heat to low, and simmer for 10 minutes.