Korean Recipe for Sweet Rice Cake (Yak Shik)

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups sweet rice
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp caramel - see below
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 15 pieces chestnuts
• 15 pieces dried seedless red dates
• 1 tbsp pine nuts (mashed)

To make the Caramel: Place sugar inot a clean pot, stir-fry till it melts into caramel syrup. Otherwise you can purchase ready-made ones from the store. The caramel color is essential to the presentation of this dish.

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• Soak the sweet rice in water overnight, then drain
• Place a gauze or cheese cloth in the steamer
• Put the rice on the cloth and steam over high heat (15 mins)
• Put the sweet rice in a large bowl
• Add in brown sugar, caramel, sesame oil and salt
• Add in the chestnuts, dates and pine nuts
• Mix everything together while rice is hot
• Put rice cake mixture back on steamer and steam for another 40 mins
• Remove and cut into slices
• These rice cakes can be served hot or cold
• If you wish, you can serve it alongside Korean Rice Punch

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