I know we generally use the word, "Rice cake" for this Korean sweets "Ttuk"; 떡, but I always feel weird calling "Cake" for the one made out of sweet rice flour.
In Korea, there are two different types of rice cake,"Ttuk". One is made out of sweet rice flour and another one is made out of regular rice flour. Since sweet rice flour make "Ttuk" chewier, it is used for something smaller or bite size snacks, such as Mochi. And for regular rice flour, we normally make bigger "Ttuk" which is more like a cake. So that's why, I think I sometime we should just call them with their original name "Ttuk", like a Japanese word, Mochi.
Anyway, I decided to make this, because I had two totally ripe bananas which I don't really like to eat.(Too mushy!) So I used the banana instead of sugar and other liquid ingredients for this recipe. This recipe could be easy healthy vegan snack, if you follow until just right before the final step. The final step is not quite traditional, but Koreans have been doing and liked it for a long time.
You will need
1 1/2 cup sweet rice flour
2 ripe bananas
1/3 cup cranberry (optional)
cake crumbs (optional)
Directions
1. Mash your bananas
2. Mix rice flour and cranberry with mash banana until it becomes one dough
3. Decide the dough in whatever size you like and shape them
(Smaller would be nicer to eat)
4. In boiling water, cook your raw rice cakes until they float
5. Once they float, immediately cool them in ice water.
6. Take them out of the water and you can just eat them like that
or
7. Roll them on cake crumbs
This step is optional, but it definitely make them better.
It might sound weird, but cake crumbs and rice cakes are really good together.
Just a store bought cakes are also fine.
Normally Koreans like to use yellow cake, but I used cocoa cake from before.
Chocolate and banana? of course, this is good.
Soft, chewy and sweet.
Oh, so here's Korean word of today. We call this soft and slightly elastic texture, "mallang mallang; 말랑말랑". You can just say it once, like Mallang, but we always say "mallang mallang" for some reason.
This is totally a fusion rice cake.
Since the ingredients are exotic for Ttuk, it reminded me Assam tea from Sun Moon Lake Taiwanese farm. Assam tea in Taiwan. How exotic is that?
So today's tea was Royal Ruby Black Tea from Sun moon lake antique Assam tea farm.
I will post more about this tea later.
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Royal Ruby Black Tea from Sun moon lake antique Assam tea farm
If you like Mochi, you should try it!!
And you will definitely feel less guilty with this sweets. :)
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