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Gaepi-tteok
''Gaepi-tteok'' () or ''baram-tteok'' () is a half-moon-shaped ''tteok'' (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour and filled with white adzuki bean paste. Preparation Non-glutinous rice flour is steamed in ''siru'' (steamer) and pounded in ''jeolgu'' (mortar) to form a dough. It is then cut into small pieces, rolled out flat and round, and filled with '' geopipat-so'' (white adzuki bean paste) and sealed. The filling can be made by husking adzuki beans (often the black variety), steaming and seasoning it with salt, and sieving it. Sesame oil is brushed on each ''tteok'' to prevent it from sticking. Varieties Korean mugwort can be pounded together with steamed rice flour to make a green-colored dough. In Gangwon Province, steamed rice flour is pounded with deltoid synurus, also resulting in a green dough. To make a pink dough, the endodermis of Korean red pine is used. Variants containing sweet mung bean paste instead of white adzuki bean paste Red bean paste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic of Korea) comprising its southern half. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. The peninsula is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea). During the first half of the 1st millennium, Korea was divided between three states, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, together known as the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In the second half of the 1st millennium, Silla defeated and conquered Baekje and Goguryeo, leading to the "Unified Silla" period. Meanwhile, Balhae formed in the north, superseding former Goguryeo. Unified Silla eventually collapsed into three separate states due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
