Sunday 14 January 2018

Korean Rice Cake @ Baekseolgi with Korean Bean Flower - Happy Birthday to ME



Homemade Korean rice flour @ Maepssalgaru


Korean vocabulary lesson:
Ssal 쌀 – rice
Maepssal 맵쌀 – short grain rice
Chapssal 찹쌀 – sweet rice
Garu 가루 – flour or powder

Rice flour (ssalgaru) is flour made from finely milled rice. Koreans usually use one of two kinds of ssalgaru for making rice cakes:
1) Chapssalgaru (sweet rice flour or called glutinous rice flour) and it is easy to store. It can be found on regular shelves with other dry grain flours.
2) Maepssalgaru is made with short grain rice (or called sushi rice) and usually stored/sold frozen because they will go bad pretty quickly due to its moisture content.

Korean Bean Paste for Flower Piping