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Yaksik (Korean: 약식; lit. medicine food) or yakbap (약밥; lit. medicine rice) is a sweet Korean dish made by steaming glutinous rice, and mixing with chestnuts, jujubes, and pine nuts. It is seasoned with honey or brown sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce, and sometimes cinnamon.
This is a list of Korean desserts. Korean cuisine known today has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient agricultural and nomadic traditions in southern Manchuria and the Korean peninsula , Korean cuisine has evolved through a complex interaction of the natural environment and different cultural trends.
Hwajeon (화전) – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose; Bukkumi (부꾸미), pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape [3] Juak (주악), made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried.
Tteok (Korean: 떡) is a general term for Korean rice cakes.They are made with steamed flour of various grains, [1] especially glutinous and non-glutinous rice.Steamed flour can also be pounded, shaped, or pan-fried to make tteok.
Yakgwa (약과; 藥菓), consisting of two syllables, yak (약; 藥; "medicine") and gwa (과; 菓; "confection"), means "medicinal confection". [7] This name comes from the large amount of honey that is used to prepare it, [4] [8] because pre-modern Koreans considered honey to be medicinal and so named many honey-based foods yak ("medicine").
Hangwa (Korean: 한과; Hanja: 韓菓) is a general term for traditional Korean confections. [1] With tteok (rice cakes), hangwa forms the sweet food category in Korean cuisine. [2] Common ingredients of hangwa include grain flour, fruits and roots, sweet ingredients such as honey and yeot, and spices such as cinnamon and ginger. [3]
Chal is derived from the Middle Korean chɑl ( ), and the word chɑlsdeok ( ) appears in Geumganggyeong Samga hae, a 1482 book on the Diamond Sūtra. [ 7 ] Accordingly, chaltteok can mean tteok made of glutinous grains other than rice, such as glutinous sorghum , but chapssal-tteok can only refer to tteok that is made of glutinous rice.
Tteokbokki (Korean: 떡볶이), [pronunciation?] or simmered rice cake, is a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white, cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면; lit. rice cake noodles) or commonly tteokbokki-tteok (떡볶이 떡; lit. tteokbokki rice cakes).