Korean Desserts You Should Have Already Tried

1. Korean Desserts You Should Have Already Tried

2. Korean food was once scarcely known in this country but it has rightly been growing in popularity over the last few years. • Not so long ago if you were in the UK and wanted to visit a Korean Supermarket London was your only option. • More recently it has become easier to find a really good Asian Supermarket, Leeds, Manchester and many other cities across the UK now have such stores but it is the rise of • online Asian supermarkets that has really made Korean ingredients truly accessible to all. • The savoury dishes related to this extraordinary cuisine have gained a particular foothold, perhaps because of the incredible quality of Hanwoo beef. • What has not caught the attention of the British diner however the wonderful variety of dessert dishes.

3. We think that this is a terrible shame – so here are just some of the amazing Korean desserts that you should already have tried. • Songpyeon • This is a truly classic Korean dessert. Essentially Songpyeon is a type of rice cake, or tteok, usually made into a half-moon shape, then filled with something sweet such as dates, jujubes, chestnuts or soybeans. • What sets Songpyeon apart from the many other rice cake styles us the way they are prepared. Their earthy piney flavour is created by steaming the rice cakes over a bed of pine needles, leaving not just the flavour, but the heady aroma of pine. • Hotteok • Seoul is very, very cold during the winter months. This is perhaps one of the reasons that this classic sweet street food is so ubiquitous a on the city’s streets as the thermometer drops. • Western diners might compare hotteok to a sweet pancake. Crispy on the outside with a warm filling of dark sugar, ground nuts and cinnamon.

4. In Korea they are regarded as a warmly comforting snack to eat on the go and they are so popular that the queues for the best vendors can be extremely long. • Yaksik • With the notable exception of rice pudding, Western cuisines tend to regard rice as an exclusively savoury ingredient. Yaksik demonstrates the versatility of this ubiquitous cereal. • A steamed mix of glutinous rice, chestnuts, pine nuts and jujubes this sticky rice amalgam then has a filling related to the region. Popular fillings include rich brown sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon and honey. • When filled they mix is steamed for a second time and formed into a flat square and left to cool.

5. Dasik • A Dasik is a class of small, bite-sized confections. The precise ingredients and base will vary but a Western eye would see most dasik as a sort of bite-sized biscuit. • Popular varieties of dasik include the classic Ssaldasik made from glutinous rice flour that has been steamed then dried, toasted and pounded into mould. • The sweeter and richer Bam dasik gets its flavour from the inclusion of steamed and mashed chestnut, while the vibrantly coloured Kong dasik gets its yellow hue from soybeans. • Patbingsu • Bingsu refers to a broad range of desserts made of shaved ice. All of the man bingsu varieties are gloriously delicious but we think that the type known as patbingsu really stands out.

6. It looks very much like a mound of soft snow with fresh fruit on top - and that is more or less exactly what it is. Patbingsu begins with a base of shaved (not crushed) ice. • On top of this are placed sweet red beans (the real signature of this dish), whatever fresh fruits are available, and crushed rice cake crumbs. Everything is brought together with a dollop of sweetened condensed milk. • And we should say that we have barely scratched the surface of the sweet dessert dishes to be found across Korea. • So next time you are somewhere with a great Asian Supermarket, Leeds, London, Edinburgh, this website, why not explore the sweet flavours and textures of Korean desserts?

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