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Learn how to make Korean sweet rice dessert - Yaksik (Yakbap)! One of the key ingredients used is honey and honey was considered as a medicine in the old days in Korea. Officially Yaksik is one of the foods you would eat on the first full moon of the new year (in the lunar calendar) - Jeongwol.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook yaksik - traditional korean sweet rice using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

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

In traditional Korean cuisine, honey was commonly referred to as. Brown sugar, canned chestnuts, chestnuts, cinnamon powder, cranberries, grape seed oil, honey, jujubes, pine nuts, raisins, sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, sweet rice, vegetable oil, water.. Yaksik is a Korean rice cake made with honey, nuts, jujubes, and glutinous rice. It's a sweet, delicious treat that's packed full of flavor and healthy ingredients.

Steps 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.

Even the name is healthy We feel the same way about jujubes and pine nuts, too, so yaksik is good for you. Yaksik or yakbap (literally "medicinal food" or "medicinal rice") is a sweet Korean dish made by steaming glutinous rice, and mixing with chestnuts, jujubes, and pine nuts. Yaksik (also called Yakbap) is a traditional Korean snack or dessert, made with sweet rice, nuts and jujubes (Korean dates). Many Koreans eat Yaksik as a healthy alternative to cookies and chips. It's often served at weddings and parties.

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