19 July 2010

Desserts

There are traditional sweets eaten as dessert such as tteok and hangwa.


Tteok refers to all kind of rice cakes made from either pounded rice or glutinous rice left whole, without pounding. It is served either filled or covered with sweetened mung bean paste, red bean paste, mashed azuki beans, raisins, a sweetened filling made with sesame seeds, sweet pumpkin, beans, jujubes, pine nuts and/or honey.



Tteok is usually served as dessert or snack. On the other hand, hangwa is a general term referring to all types of Korean traditional confectionery. The ingredients of hahngwa mainly consists of grain flour, honey, yeot and sugar. Hangwa is largely divided into fried confectionery.

Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine