This is a wonderful springtime food that is pretty easy to make, and everyone will love it. It’s almost too beautiful to eat!
Ingredients:
Sweet rice flour (“chapssal garu“), salt, water, sugar, vegetable oil, edible flowers.
I bought these edible flowers in the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City.
Directions:
- Place 1 cup of sweet rice flour and a pinch of salt in a large bowl.
- Add ½ cup of hot water little by little. Mix it well with a wooden spoon as you pour in the water.
- Knead the mixture for 5 minutes.
- Cut the dough into 12 pieces and roll each piece into a ball.
- Cover the dough with a wet cloth so it doesn’t dry out. Set it aside.
- Make syrup:
Place ¼ cup of sugar and ¼ cup of water in a small pot. Simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes, then remove from the heat. - Heat up a non-stick frying pan over low heat. Drizzle some vegetable oil on it (½ tbs).
- Press each rice cake ball into a disc about 5 cm in diameter.
- Place each disc-shaped rice cake on the pan and cook it.
- When the bottom of the rice cake is cooked, turn it over to cook the other side.
It will take about 3-4 minutes to cook.
*tip: flatten it out on the pan with a spatula to make it larger - Place an edible flower on the top of the rice cake, then flip it over so that the flower gets slightly cooked and sticks to the cake.
- Cook each one and put them on a serving plate.
- Drizzle the syrup on top of the pancakes.
- Serve with green tea or rose tea.
Hi Maangchi,
Can I use sticky rice powder? Its so difficult to get Korean ingredients in India :-( this looks so beautiful and back home, these flowers grow in our backyard.
yes, it’s sticky rice powder (glutinous rice flour).
Hi maangchi!
I’m a big fan of your recipes. My daughter is having world cultures day at her school, and she picked Korea because I am from there! I don’t know much about Korea, because I was adopted into an American home, so I came to you to look for a good recipe. She would make this in the morning, and then bring it to school, and so I was wondering if this would last for about 4 hours? Would it be best to put the syrup on in the morning, or wait till right before?
yes, 4 hours is ok. Sorry about the late reply. How did her presentation go? Drizzle syrup over the rice cake right after making it.