{"id":6348,"date":"2025-05-23T18:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:58:48","slug":"drama-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/column\/drama-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Adzuki rice porridge for the morning after a party: what it does in yakuzen, and the recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adzuki porridge turned up at the end of episode 9. Plenty of people must have seen it and wanted a bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, <strong>adzuki porridge makes sense in yakuzen terms too.<\/strong> On the morning after a party, when the body feels vaguely heavy, this porridge is gentle on the stomach and exactly right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Adzuki\" class=\"wp-image-3343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adzuki is a yakuzen ingredient that drives out excess fluid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In yakuzen, adzuki belongs to the <strong>water-draining, damp-percolating group,<\/strong> as it is called.<br>These are held to <strong>drain the excess fluid, or damp, that builds up in the body.<\/strong> That is the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The morning after drinking a lot at a party, when you swell up or your stomach feels heavy,<br>the pairing of <strong>adzuki and porridge<\/strong> probably showed up to reset the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/journal\/azuki\/\" title=\"\">See what adzuki does<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"944\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_7772-1-944x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A recipe for adzuki congee\" class=\"wp-image-6349\" style=\"width:347px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_7772-1-944x1024.jpg 944w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_7772-1-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_7772-1-768x833.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_7772-1.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good on a busy morning: easy adzuki porridge started in a flask<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little work the night before and a bowl your body is glad of is ready in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients (serves 1)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Water: 300 to 400 ml<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adzuki beans: 2 tbsp<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rice: 2 tbsp (or 100 g frozen cooked rice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salt: a pinch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A soup flask or vacuum flask that holds heat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The night before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Put the adzuki and water in a small pan and bring to the boil over a fairly high medium heat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once boiling, take it off the heat, pour it straight into the flask and leave it warm for six to eight hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Finishing in the morning<\/strong><br>3. The adzuki will have swollen to about three times the size and be almost soft.<br>4. Tip it into a small pan with its liquid, add washed rice or frozen cooked rice and simmer.<br>5. Once it thickens and is cooked through, season with salt and it is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have shown this recipe before on <strong>Instagram Live<\/strong> too.<br> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYpvVjWMunv\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Watch the Instagram Live<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Settle mind and body with one bowl in the morning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bowl brings together what adzuki does in yakuzen with the gentleness of porridge.<br>On a morning when you think you may have eaten or drunk a bit much, it should quietly settle both mind and body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us start today with a gentle breakfast too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/landing\/\" title=\"\">About Yasai Yakuzen learning materials<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adzuki porridge, exactly right for the morning after drinking or eating too much. What adzuki does in yakuzen terms to drain damp from the body, plus an easy recipe you can start the night before.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":"","ssp_meta_description":"\u30d1\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc\u7fcc\u671d\u306b\u304a\u3059\u3059\u3081\u306e\u5c0f\u8c46\u7ca5\u3092\u85ac\u81b3\u306e\u8996\u70b9\u3067\u7d39\u4ecb\u3002\u4f59\u5206\u306a\u6c34\u5206\uff08\u6e7f\uff09\u3092\u51fa\u3059\u3068\u3055\u308c\u308b\u5c0f\u8c46\u306e\u50cd\u304d\u3084\u3001\u80c3\u8178\u306b\u3084\u3055\u3057\u3044\u5c0f\u8c46\u7ca5\u306e\u30ec\u30b7\u30d4\u3092\u308f\u304b\u308a\u3084\u3059\u304f\u89e3\u8aac\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002"},"categories":[168],"tags":[169,178],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-column","tag-eat-sleep-happy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}