How to make rice cake?

Taeguk: It is a famous Northeastern Korean flavor food. It is made by placing steamed glutinous rice or small yellow rice in a wooden trough and then pounding it with a wooden mallet. This is why the cake is named after it. It is characterized by its softness and delicacy, as well as its tenderness and taste. To eat, the cake is first cut into small pieces with a knife and then dipped in red beans and sugar. There is a popular saying that "eating rice cake in summer is like eating a small ginseng".

The rice cake is almost exactly the same as rice cakes, glutinous rice balls and mochi in other Asian regions. So sometimes, when talking about North Korean fried rice cakes, they are actually rice cakes. Korean rice cakes are made by steaming glutinous rice and then pounding it. When eaten, it is cut into pieces and dipped in bean noodles, sugar or honey, etc. It tastes sinewy and flavorful. For this reason, the Korean people in Korea have always regarded rice cakes as a delicacy, and have been making them for festivals, marriage ceremonies, and the reception of honored guests. Depending on the rice used, there are two types of rice cakes: white rice cakes made from glutinous rice and yellow rice cakes made from yellow rice. According to the different ingredients and flavors, there are varieties of rice cakes: Manchu rice cake, date mud cake, cinnamon cake, red bean cake, mint cake Korean pine needle cake.

Korean flavor rice. In the old days, when the lunar calendar in March rituals to the gods; method: glutinous rice or yellow rice with water to wash, soybean fried and ground salty fine noodles spare. Glutinous rice into rice in a wooden trough, with a wooden hammer dipped in water slightly pounded into the mud, poured on the pre-prepared slate, and then with a wooden hammer dipped in water will be beaten into a cake; side hit: side to the side of the people from the side of the dial, so that it is uniform in thickness, and after playing on the sprinkled soybean noodles to eat. The first hit out of the so-called "擦台糕", generally not used for God; the second after the hit out of the slate surface has been clean to use it.

The first thing to do is to wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for more than ten hours, until it can be crushed with the fingers, and then the rice is filtered out.

Then put the rice into the steamer basket with high fire steam more than half an hour later,

Then put the steamed glutinous rice on the chopping board, with a wooden mallet side hit side flip, flip side water wipe chopping board, otherwise, the cake will be and chopping board stick together turn can't be, the more even the more good when you hit. Generally to hit the invisible rice as appropriate,

Finally, sprinkle bean paste or cooked bean noodles can be eaten. If you like sweet, you can dip it in sugar; if you like salty, you can add salt. The cake is sticky and delicious, and the flavor is fragrant.

The cake has many flavors, such as bean paste, sesame, hawthorn, pineapple, peanut, strawberry and so on.