korean sweet dessert pages

Sweet red bean jelly (Yanggaeng)

Yanggaeng is one of my favorite Korean snacks. I love the texture of the sweet, soft, smooth, and blended silky beans and I much prefer this over any kind of chocolate. When I was young, and going on a school picnic, my mom used to give me a little money to buy a snack or something […]

Stephanie and her children’s homemade manju!

Looking at this photo is not simply I can say it looks so delicious. I see the behind story about this photo. I picture a mom and 2 very young children work together!

Manju

Manju with red beans

Sweet Manju Pastry

Rice cake for patbingsu (Patbingsu-tteok)

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.

Red beans (Pat)

These small red beans have been used in Korean cuisine for thousands of years in rice and porridge dishes and also as a sweet filling for many desserts. They are sold in many other Asian markets, as well as whole-foods stores and many supermarkets. Buy beans that are the brightest red you can find, not […]