Korean sweet rice with dried fruit/Yaksik

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mar09

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Sep 17, 2014
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Here is a korean rice recipe i would still like to try. Have any done it?

PREP TIME
10 mins

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
1 hour 10 mins


Author: My Korean Kitchen
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Korean
Serves: 9

INGREDIENTS
Main

  • 3 cups* sweet rice (short grain glutinous rice)
  • 2 cups* water
  • 2 Tbsp pine nuts
  • 15 chestnuts (about 120g, 4.2 ounces) – skin peeled and cut into 3 or 4 smaller pieces (I used frozen ones, which are available from a Korean grocery store. You can use fresh ones if you can get them. A tinned version is also available from Korean grocery stores.)
  • ¼ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup dried cranberries
  • 10 dried pitted jujubes (red dates) – rinsed and halved
Seasoning sauce (mix these in a bowl)

  • 1 Tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 Tbsp honey
  • ⅓ cup dark brown sugar
  • 2 Tbsp sesame oil
  • ½ tsp cinnamon powder
  • ⅛ tsp fine sea salt
Decoration (number of required ingredients will vary depending on the size of each Yaksik piece.)

  • 1 Tbsp pine nuts
  • 2 to 3 dried pitted jujubes – rinsed and cut vertically in one corner and roll it up. thinly sliced
Measurement

  • 1 cup* = 180ml (using rice measuring cup). This is equivalent to ¾ standard measuring cup.
  • 1 Tbsp = 15ml, ⅓ cup = 80ml, ¼ cup = 60ml


INSTRUCTIONS


  1. Put the sweet rice into the rice cooker pot and rinse it with cold running water a couple of times (until the water is clear). Drain the water.
  2. Add the cooking water and the seasoning sauce into the rice cooker pot and mix them well.
  3. Add the nuts and fruit on top. Make sure these are evenly spread in the pot.
  4. Set the “multi steam” function for 35 mins and cook. - This is based on my cuckoo rice cooker setting.
  5. Once it’s all cooked, gently stir and mix around the rice, dried fruit and nuts with a rice scoop. Put them into a medium sized square or rectangle mould. (I just used a pyrex container. You can also use a baking mould.) Cool down for 20 to 30 mins in the mould.
  6. Tip the mould over the cutting board and get the Yaksik out. Decorate Yaksik with pine nuts and sliced jujube with a large gap in between. (Decoration is optional. Imagine the cutting by size first to allow enough room for decoration and cutting. If you're making smaller ones, you will have to decorate more.)
  7. Slice the Yaksik into your preferred size.
  8. Serve. For Yaksik that are not for immediate consumption, wrap them individually with food wrap, store them in a container and keep it in the fridge (for a few days) or freezer (up to a few months).


Korean Sweet Rice with Dried Fruit and Nuts - My Korean Kitchen
 

CatHerder

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Yum!! I've had something like this before, but I think it had dried apricot. Hope it turns out okay!

 

mar09

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There are lots of local rice cake variations too, and thats why i wanted to try the korean method of mixing. I did try, but havent all the ingredients, so it's not exactly as imagined, but alright. I might as well post a link to one rice cake, using rice flour though.
https://byambershands.com/2013/03/15/coconut-pandan-rice-cake-puto/

Ah, when i first had to try dry apricots, i mostly ate them plain-). A sis said she used these in some recipes, but dried fruits are not that common here, except dried mangoes in Cebu... and theyre nice as is, so never mind the recipes.
 
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kanesmith

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There are lots of local rice cake variations too, and thats why i wanted to try the korean method of mixing. I did try, but havent all the ingredients, so it's not exactly as imagined, but alright. I might as well post a link to one rice cake, using rice flour though.
https://byambershands.com/2013/03/15/coconut-pandan-rice-cake-puto/

Ah, when i first had to try dry apricots, i mostly ate them plain-). A sis said she used these in some recipes, but dried fruits are not that common here, except dried mangoes in Cebu... and theyre nice as is, so never mind the recipes.
lol!! I was about to say the same about hwachae.