Kongbap

Alternative names	Soybean rice
Type	Bap
Place of origin	Korea
Associatedcuisine	Korean cuisine
Main ingredients	Rice,soybeans
Similar dishes	Patbap
Korean name
Hangul	콩밥
RR	kongbap
MR	k'ongbap
IPA	[kʰoŋ.bap̚]
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Kongbap (Korean: 콩밥) is aKorean dish ofwhite orbrownrice cooked together with one or more varieties ofsoybeans.^[1]Kongbap may be made from scratch by combining and cooking together dried rice and soybeans—usually black soybeans. OutsideKorea, the word "kongbap" is commercially used in premixed multi-grain packages in dried form. In Korea, multigrain rice consisting of grains other than soybeans is calledjapgok-bap (mixed cereal rice).

The Korean wordkong (bean) alone usually refers to soybeans and is contrasted with other words likepat meaningadzuki beans. As such,kongbap (bean rice) would not also be applied topatbap (red bean rice). Rice cooked with beans other than soybeans, such asFrench beans (gangnangkong in Korean) orpeas (wandu in Korean), are usually named using the specific bean name, as ingangnang-kong-bap (French bean rice) orwandu-kong-bap (pea rice).

Although it is generally acknowledged as a nutritious food,kongbap was not universally enjoyed as it was associated withimprisonment.Kongbap had long been a staple of Koreanprison food.^[2] TheKorean phrasekongbap meokda (콩밥 먹다; literally "to eatkongbap") translatescolloquially as "to be imprisoned."^[3] This is similar to a phrase in England with the same meaning: "to doporridge."

With a recent health food trend in South Korea, the popularity of beans has risen andkongbap is more commonly eaten in Korean households than before.^[4][5]

• Japgok-bap (mixed-grain rice) is abap including short-grain white and brown rice, greenpeas,adzuki beans, blacksoybeans,yulmu (Coix lacryma-jobi var.ma-yuen), blackglutinous rice,barley andsorghum. The dried mixture is generally soaked in water for several hours or overnight before cooking, in order to ease the softening process of the beans while cooking.
• Patbap (red bean rice) is made from red adzuki beans.

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  Namul (vegetable side dishes) andkongbap (lower right)

• List of rice dishes
• Rice and beans
• Ritschert – a European barley, bean, vegetable and pork stew also sometimes associated with prisons
• Nutraloaf – a meal common in the American penal system

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• Legume dishes
• Prison food

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