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Songpyeon
송편
Korean pastry
About this dish
Songpyeon (Korean: 송편) is a small Korean rice cake (tteok) shaped like a half-moon. It contains a range of fillings including red bean paste, toasted sesame seeds, and chestnuts and is traditionally eaten during the Korean autumn harvest festival, Chuseok, when it is often prepared by families at home. It is a popular symbol of traditional Korean culture. The earliest records of songpyeon date from the Goryeo period.
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Spoonable Songpyeon (Tteo-meongneun Songpyeon)
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Main ingredients
- napa cabbage배추60 g
- soybean powder콩가루25 g
- roasted walnuts구운 호두15 g
- lemon juice레몬즙10 g
- cheongyang chili pepper청양고추5 g
- button mushrooms양송이버섯30 g
- garlic마늘10 g
- onion양파30 g
- milk우유150 g
- heavy cream생크림150 g
- Korean large green onion (daepa)대파5 g
Dough ingredients
- non-glutinous rice flour (mepssal-garu)멥쌀가루180 g
- salt소금2.5 g
- gardenia powder (chija-garu)치자가루5 g
- chili oil고추기름10 g
Seasoning
- cooking oil식용유10 g
- whole peppercorns통후추2 g
- unsalted butter무염 버터20 g
- whole sesame seeds통깨2 g
- oligosaccharide syrup올리고당5 g
Nutrition per serving

Steps
Translated from the Korean original. Amounts are as in the original recipe.
- Sift the non-glutinous rice flour and salt. Divide into 3 bowls; add gardenia powder to one bowl and chili oil to another, and knead each with hot water (ikban-juk) to make the doughs.
- Chop the napa cabbage and divide it into 3 bowls; add soybean powder + roasted walnuts (10 g) to one, lemon juice to another, and cheongyang chili pepper to the third, stir-fry each, and remove the moisture to make the songpyeon fillings.
- Pinch off 45 g portions of dough: put the lemon juice filling in the gardenia dough, the cheongyang chili pepper filling in the chili oil dough, and the soybean powder + roasted walnut filling in the remaining dough, and shape the songpyeon.
- Heat cooking oil in a pan and pan-fry the songpyeon. In another pan, put the oligosaccharide syrup and roasted walnuts (5 g) and simmer.
- Put the chopped button mushrooms, garlic, onion, whole peppercorns, and unsalted butter in a pan and stir-fry. Add the milk and heavy cream and boil together to make a cream sauce.
- Put the cream sauce and pan-fried songpyeon in a bowl. Finish with chopped daepa, sesame seeds, and the walnuts simmered in oligosaccharide syrup on top.
Diet and allergy labels are estimated from the ingredient list. Check labels if you have an allergy.
Recipe source: Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) recipe database. English translation by WorldFoodPedia, not by MFDS.
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