''Mandu-gwa'' () is a Korean sweet dumpling filled with sweetened ingredients and coated with ''

jocheong ''Cheong'' () is a name for various sweetened foods in the form of syrups, marmalades, and fruit preserves. In Korean cuisine, ''cheong'' is used as a tea base, as a honey-or-sugar-substitute in cooking, as a condiment, and also as an alternativ ...

'' (rice syrup). It is a type of ''

yumil-gwa ''Yumil-gwa'' () is a variety of ''hangwa'', a traditional Korean confection. Different varieties of ''yumil-gwa'' can be made by combining a wheat flour dough with various ingredients such as: honey, cooking oil, cinnamon powder, nuts, ginge ...

'', a deep-fried ''

hangwa ''Hangwa'' () is a general term for traditional Korean confections. With ''tteok'' (rice cakes), ''hangwa'' forms the sweet food category in Korean cuisine. Common ingredients of ''hangwa'' include grain flour, fruits and roots, sweet ingre ...

'' (Korean confection) made with wheat flour. Mandu means "dumplings" and ''gwa'' means "confection". ''Mandu-gwa'' is typically eaten as a dessert or ''

bamcham Yasik () is a term referring to South Korea's midnight snack culture. The dictionary meaning of Yasik is 'the food eaten in the middle of the night after dinner.' Korea's top yasik favourites include: ramyeon (라면), typically eaten with kimc ...

'' (late-night snack).

Preparation

The dough is prepared by sifting

wheat flour Wheat flour is a powder made from the grinding of wheat used for human consumption. Wheat varieties are called "soft" or "weak" if gluten content is low, and are called "hard" or "strong" if they have high gluten content. Hard flour, or ''bread ...

and kneading it with

sesame oil Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. The oil is one of the earliest-known crop-based oils. Worldwide mass modern production is limited due to the inefficient manual harvesting process required to extract the oil. ...

honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primar ...

, ginger juice and clear, refined rice wine known as ''

cheongju Cheongju () is the capital and largest city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea. History Cheongju has been an important provincial town since ancient times. In the Cheongju Mountains, specifically in the one where Sangdang Sanseong is ...

''. The filling is usually made by mixing steamed, deseeded and minced

jujube Jujube (), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name ''Ziziphus jujuba'' and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, is a species in the genus '' Ziziphus'' in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Description It is a smal ...

, cinnamon powder and honey. Only a small amount of filling is put on a flattened piece of dough. The covering should be thick, to prevent the confectionery from bursting out after it is deep-fried. After frying the dough, the dumpling is marinated in ''

'' (rice syrup).

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Preparation

See also

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