Korean cooking ingredients

Rice syrup

Ssalyeot 쌀엿

Korean rice syrup

Rice syrup (Ssalyeot) is used in Korean cuisine as a sweetener and to add shine to the dish, much like mulyeot. In fact, most Koreans simply call it “mulyeot” when they really mean ssalyeot.

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The main difference between the two is that ssalyeot is a nice brown color, unlike mulyeot, which is clear.

rice syrup

rice syrup

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Recipes that use rice syrup (ssalyeot):

Posted Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm.
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7 Comments:

  1. syalatte malaysia joined 7/16
    Posted July 3rd, 2016 at 10:34 pm | # |

    maangchi, if i kudnt get the rice syrup, will it destroy the good taste or is there any other way to replace dat rice syrup? i attend to try the crispy and crunchy fried chicken

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    • Maangchi New York City joined 8/08
      Posted July 7th, 2016 at 9:15 am | # |

      To make crispy and crunchy fried chicken you can replace the rice syrup with sugar or honey. Good luck!

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  2. miss R joined 4/15
    Posted April 28th, 2015 at 3:32 am | # |

    hai Maangchi,..i want to make hot pepper paste and is it ok if im using maple syrup beside rice syrup?..because ican’t find it here in malaysia..

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  3. khahn22 MA joined 7/12
    Posted July 23rd, 2012 at 4:19 pm | # |

    In the bottom picture there’s something called Rice Oligosaccharide. I got this by accident. Can I use it in this recipe? What is it, do you know?

    Also, I bought regular rice flour instead of sweet rice flour (that’s what I get for not bringing the recipe with me to the store)… Will that work?

    Thx so much for this recipe… It looks delicious!

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  4. Rayne Canada/Korea joined 7/11
    Posted February 3rd, 2012 at 7:01 pm | # |

    What is a substitute for rice syrup? I can’t find it anywhere and I can’t seem to google a substitute…

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    • Maangchi New York City joined 8/08
      Posted February 5th, 2012 at 9:51 am | # |

      You can use any type of syrup. Haw about Karo or corn syrup?

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