Today I’m going to show you how to make bukkumi, pan fried rice cakes filled with sweet red beans, or with mung bean paste. These rice cakes are gooey, chewy, and sweet on the inside and crispy on the outside. The texture is just wonderful, both soft and crispy at the same time. The best thing […]
I made ssukinjeolmi yesterday afternoon with the ssuk (mugwort) that I foraged from Inwood Park in Manhattan. Early spring is the best time to forage for ssuk because that’s when it’s still soft. It’s getting a little late to forage it now, but I was lucky that my regular ssuk foraging spot in Inwood Park […]
Injeolmi is rice cake made with sweet rice (glutinous rice). It’s one of the most popular and common Korean rice cakes and it’s made on special occasions and Festival days.
These small pieces of chewy rice cake are used for making patbingsu and you can usually find them in a Korean grocery store. Each serving of patbingsu usually uses several pieces. When the rice cake mixes with the sweet red beans and cold shaved ice, they get more chewy.
Which to get? Both are best sellers and either one is a good choice if you want to learn Korean home cooking. Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking has all the recipes for all the essential Korean pastes and sauces, but my second book Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking has more recipes, more photos, and more variety.
