Recipe of Homemade Yaksik - Traditional Korean Sweet Rice

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The following day, drain it in a fine mesh sieve. Add to the rice cooker bowl and add enough water to just cover. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, sugar, luo han guo and cinnamon. Yaksik is a kind of Korean rice cake made with glutinous rice, honey, nuts, and dried fruits.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook yaksik - traditional korean sweet rice using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Yaksik - Traditional Korean Sweet Rice:

1. Make ready 1 kg mochi rice (sticky rice/glutinous rice)
2. Make ready 3 Tbsp soy sauce
3. Make ready 2 Tbsp sesame oil
4. Get 2 Tbsp salt
5. Get 50 grams luo han guo
6. Make ready 30 grams beet sugar or brown sugar
7. Get 1 dash cinnamon
8. Make ready 15 peeled sweet chestnuts
9. Take 70 grams pine nuts
10. Make ready Dates or other dried fruits

And it also can be an excellent alternative to granola bars. Korean Sweet Rice Dessert (Yaksik) A dessert filled with health-promoting ingredients like jujube, chestnuts, and pine nuts. This version uses a pressure cooker and can be done quicker than most traditional recipes. This rice cake is also called yakbap (약밥), which literally means "medicinal rice." Yaksik is sweet and nutty with a hint of a caramel-like taste.

Instructions to make Yaksik - Traditional Korean Sweet Rice:

1. Rinse the mochi sticky rice and pre-soak overnight or for at least 5 hours.
2. The following day, drain it in a fine mesh sieve.
3. Add to the rice cooker bowl and add enough water to just cover.
4. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, sugar, luo han guo and cinnamon. These amounts are will give you the typical Korean flavor (rich!), so reduce the amounts of the seasons for a milder version.
5. While the rice is soaking, prepare a bowl or a container to mix the other ingredients. It is common to add chestnuts, pine nuts, and jujubes, but you could also use dried fruit and nuts.
6. Dry roast the pine nuts in a frying pan.
7. Cut the chestnuts in half, then remove them from their shells. It is easy to peel the chestnuts if you first cut them in half with a knife, make a small cut with scissors, then peel. Remove the inner skins, too.
8. Add the dried fruit of your choice to the rice cooker and mix them into the rice. Top the mixture with the chestnuts and the pine nuts. Set the rice cooker to the "mochi rice" setting and cook.
9. It's done…
10. Let the rice steam a bit. It should look like this when mixed.
11. Pack the sweet mochi rice into a container or cake pan (to make it easier to serve).
12. Cut the rice into desired sizes, then serve.
13. If you don't plan to serve it right away, cover it with plastic wrap and freeze. Defrost at room temperature before serving.

This version uses a pressure cooker and can be done quicker than most traditional recipes. This rice cake is also called yakbap (약밥), which literally means "medicinal rice." Yaksik is sweet and nutty with a hint of a caramel-like taste. The two key ingredients in yaksik are sweet rice and jujubes. Sweet rice, also known as glutinous or sticky rice, is a type of short-grain rice that has a very "sticky" consistency when cooked. Despite its chew, sweet rice does not contain any gluten.

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