Korean cooking ingredients

Pine nuts

Jat 잣

Pine nuts are used to garnish many dishes and desserts in Korean cuisine. You can use Mediterranean pine nuts, but I prefer the smaller and more flavorful Asian pine nuts sold at Korean grocery stores.

pine nuts

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Korean pine nuts

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Recipes that use pine nuts (jat):

Posted Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pm.
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One Comment:

  1. Gordon
    Posted July 7th, 2008 at 1:16 pm | # |

    Interesting that just like “Korean grapes”, these come from a special “Korean pine tree”.

    I grew up eating these and “Korean Grapes”. (I grew up in New Mexico and Texas.) I don’t think there is anything particularly Korean about them. Pine nuts, aka piñon, do come from a pine tree. But I’m pretty sure that Costco is not importing them from Korea (but hey, I could be wrong….I haven’t read the package to see if they list the origin of their product.) They are native to North America and Europe as well as Asia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinon_nut

    Just had to say something since all my Korean friends keep saying “Here, want some Korean Grapes?” LOL But I do really love both the “Korean Grapes” and piñon. And Korean food is my favorite. I can only cook KimChi Chigae right now, so I’ll be watching your vids to see if I can learn some more.

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