Frozen short grain rice flour

Naengdong mepssalgaru 냉동 멥쌀가루

There are many different kinds of rice flour (Ssalgaru) but short grain rice flour (Mepssalgaru) is made with short grain rice and is used to make fluffy rice cakes like Mujigaeddeok (rainbow rice cake), among other things.

You can find this in the frozen section of a Korean grocery store. It’s sold frozen so that it’ll retain its moisture. If you can’t find it in a store, you can also make it at home with this recipe.

There is more information and discussion about making rice flour out of rice on the forum.

Posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 10:31 pm. Last updated on April 24, 2019.
Tagged: 멥쌀가루, frozen rice flour, frozen rice powder, Korean cooking ingredients, korean food, korean ingredients, maepssalgaru, rice cake ingredient, rice flour, short grain rice flour, ssalgaru

Recipes that use frozen short grain rice flour (naengdong mepssalgaru):

Long, cylinder-shaped rice cake
Garaetteok
가래떡
Rainbow rice cake
Mujigae-tteok
무지개떡
Rice cakes steamed in pine needles
Songpyeon
송편
Squash rice cake
Hobaktteok
호박떡
White steamed rice cake
Baekseolgi-tteok
백설기떡

31 Comments:

sansky new york joined 5/16 & has 1 comment
Posted May 10th, 2016 at 11:05 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
hai maangchi,
I live in new york city, I want make rainbow rice cake, where grocery you buy frozen rice flour?
thx u.
Weoye Vichy, France joined 3/16 & has 1 comment
Posted March 25th, 2016 at 6:49 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.
안녕하세요 i went to korean grocery store in paris and found 쌀가루 (and yes it s written in korean) but it wasn’t in the frozen section.. And when i visited the frozen section they don’t have 쌀가루 in there so i decided to bought the one i found before to make 가래떡.. But after rewatched ur video and read some comments, found out that “frozen flour” was seem really important.. Furthermore when i read the package thouroughly, i found out that it was produced in america.. So do you think it is still short grain rice flour? Can i still use it to make 가래떡?
Thank you for the respons :D
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted March 26th, 2016 at 10:24 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  There are 2 types of ssalgaru that I’ve been using in my recipes so far.
  Chapssalgaru (which is dry)
  https://www.maangchi.com/ingredient/sweet-rice-flour
  and Mepssalgaru (which is wet & frozen)
  https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/mepssalgaru
  The reason I use frozen Mepssalgaru in the garaetteok recipe is because the rice flour needs to be made with the short grain rice soaked and ground. Dried rice flour will never work, so you need to buy frozen or make your own: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/mepssalgaru
thojnub United States joined 5/13 & has 1 comment
Posted May 21st, 2013 at 7:06 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.
I love your rainbow rice cake recipe but I’m still troubled with the flour… you said that it can be homemade too… Is sweet rice = sticky,glutinous rice? Please let me know.
Yaeru Mexico joined 7/12 & has 1 comment
Posted July 15th, 2012 at 2:04 am | Log in to reply or create a profile.
Hi maangichi, I recently foun your page, and I like a lot your videos. I would like to make the rainbow rice cake. I am from Mexico so I do not if I can use any rice flour, because is difficult to find the same ingredients, I have the same problem with the mugwort power. I hope you can get me a tips about this.
Thank you for you time.
- Maangchi New York City joined 8/08 & has 12,047 comments
  Posted September 19th, 2012 at 9:04 pm | Log in to reply or create a profile.
  Please check this out. The answer is posted here. https://www.maangchi.com/talk/topic/rainbow-rice-cake
  https://www.maangchi.com/talk/topic/how-to-make-rainbow-rice-cake-with-dry-rice-flour
  You can replace mugwort powder with green tea powder or use food coloring.