Korea is a country with an ancient culture and traditions that residents revered to this day. Korean cuisine is an integral part of both the first and second and is considered one of the healthy in the world. What is so special about dishes prepared by Korean cooks?
Features of Korean cuisine
The main ingredient of Korean cuisine, as well as the cuisines of all Asia, is rice. It is used as a main dish in boiled form, it is ground into flour and noodles are prepared from it, added to sauces and Korean sweets are made on its basis. There are many recipes for national sweet dishes, but some stand out from the general background.
Chimpeni
Sweet rice flour cakes. Chimpeni is one of the favorite sweets of both kids and their parents. Tympeni (second name) have the appearance of small round cakes, steamed, with a decoration in the center in the form of a red flower.
There are several recipes for making Korean rice flour sweets.
The method is classic. For the preparation of chimpani, you need to take white rice, rinse it thoroughly and leave to soak. In the hot season, four hours of soaking will suffice, in the cold season - at least eight. After the required period, drain the water and dry the rice on a towel for an hour. Then grind the grits into flour. In the end, it should turn out to be a little wet, so that the cakes are well sculpted.
Now you can start cooking. You will need:
rice flour - 600 g;
mccoli - 70 ml;
salt - 1 pinch;
sugar - 200 g;
water - 250 ml.
Mix all the ingredients, leave the dough for six hours. Over time, form cakes and send to a double boiler for two hours.
The second method of preparation involves a different method of preparing rice flour. Rice is soaked in water for two days, then the water is drained and the rice is steamed in a water bath until fully cooked. The prepared cereal is crushed into a homogeneous mass, and cakes are formed from it, adding the necessary ingredients.
Yakkva
Cookies according to the traditional recipe with grains, honey, edible flowers and roots are called yakva. The result is delicious Korean sweets, photos of which partially confirm this.
This dessert is considered one of the main delicacies in Korean traditional cuisine. Yakkva is mentioned in the chronicles of the Koryo dynasty, it served as the main dish of religious holidays.
For cooking you will need:
When preparing Korean sweets, you need to take the ginger root, which is peeled and cut into thin slices. Sugar syrup is prepared from ½ of the total sugar volume and 200 ml of water, the prepared ginger is added to it, and the whole mass is boiled for 15 minutes. Cool and set aside.
In a separate bowl, mix a glass of water, 50 g of ready-made sugar syrup, sugar residue, ginger. Boil everything over medium-high heat, stirring and removing foam. After thickening, honey is added and boiled for another couple of minutes.
Add sesame oil, confectionery alcohol, sugar and honey syrup to the sifted flour, mix and knead the dough. Roll it out with a thickness of 5 mm and cut into rhombuses the size of three by five centimeters. Sprinkle a cookie preparation with chopped cedar nuts.
Cook future Korean sweets in a greased frying pan until golden brown.
Ttok
Delicious rice flour cakes stuffed with sweet beans. In order to cook the toto, you will need rice flour - one cup, half a teaspoon of salt, three and a half glasses of sugar, a cup of water, a little more than half of the bean sweet paste and corn starch.
Mix flour, salt, sugar in a bowl , add water and knead elastic dough. Cover the bowl with cling film, set in the microwave for 2 minutes. Stir the finished dough for several minutes until smooth. Form the finished bean paste in the form of balls and leave to "rest". Form the finished dough with sausages, divide into parts. Roll out into thin circles, inside which to enclose the filling, close the seams and put on a plate. Ttok is ready to serve guests and family.
Indjolmi
Rice pastry cakes , or, as they are called in their homeland, indjolmi, are popular Korean sweets. Recipes with photos at home will help you cook many desserts yourself, including this one.
So, Injolmi is soft, sweet, sticky and viscous. It will require rice flour, salt, sugar, soy toasted powder and chopped wormwood. Mix all ingredients except wormwood. Knead the dough, put in a bowl and send in the microwave for three minutes. Remove, mix and send back for one minute. Take out the dough again, crush until bubbles and ductility appear. Roll out on a board sprinkled with soya powder and cut into pieces. Ready Korean sweets sprinkled with wormwood.
Mejacqua
To prepare mejacqua sweet cookies, you need to prepare:
Ginger root is peeled and rubbed on a fine grater. Using sugar and water, prepare syrup with ginger added during boiling. The finished syrup must be cooled, add honey and mix thoroughly until a uniform consistency is formed. Sift flour into a bowl with a slide, add sesame oil and stir, add alcohol, syrup and knead elastic dough. If there is little fluid, then you can add cold water.
The finished dough is rolled out with a thickness of five millimeters, cut into rhombs or any convenient shape. In the middle of each piece, make an incision and turn out one tip of the cookie three times. It looks like bows. Make a deep fat fryer and fry the cookies until golden brown. Get ready-made products, let the oil drain, dip into syrup and dry Korean sweets.