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Chapssal Yakgwa (Flower Honey Pastry)

JinJoo — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:49:13 +0000

Make this pretty Chapssal (sweet rice) Yakgwa that’s crumbly, soft and moist on the inside and crispy on the outside! This Yakgwa is exactly the same as the ones you buy from Korean supermarkets or convenient stores but of course with better quality ingredients. What is Chapssal Yakgwa 찹쌀약과? Yakgwa 약과 is a Korean pastry
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Easy Milk Bread Rolls with No Tangzhong

JinJoo — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:35:16 +0000

Milk bread rolls are the softest and fluffiest roll you will ever make. It’s also an easy recipe because you don’t need to make Tangzhong but it will be just as delicious! Make popular Ang-Butter and Salad Sandwich with these. Every Holiday dinner always needs some bread rolls and so I adapted my Milk Bread
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Milk Bread (Soft and Fluffy Asian Style Recipe)

JinJoo — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:10:00 +0000

Milk Bread is a wonderfully light, moist and pillowy soft white bread that you will see in many Asian/Korean style bakeries or in Korean coffee shops - served in thick slices usually with jam and butter. Flavors of milk and butter with a subtle sweetness makes this bread addictingly delicious and now you can make it at home!

[caption id="attachment_14753" align="aligncenter" width="745"] Milk Bread (Uyu Sikppang 우유 식빵) Loaf - Asian Style[/caption]

Milk Bread or Uyu Sikppang (우유식빵) is a bread that's very popular not just in Korea but in many Asian countries including Japan, China and Taiwan. And these days you can find them in bakeries like Paris Baguette (which is a franchise from Korea) in various locations throughout the US. It is also called Asian Milk Bread, Japanese/Chinese Milk Bread (Shokupan) and Hokkaido Milk Bread.

OK, so this bread makes me think of my mom.. she loved this soft bread so much. But the way she ate the bread was pretty funny and I know she always thought she was being a bit naughty 😈when she did this. She would rip out the center of the bread, leaving a big hole behind. 😲🤭 As far as I can remember she always tried to a PROPER but soft milk bread was one thing that made her bad.. hahaha..

And you know.. how when growing up... our parents always told us that we should be eating every part of the bread including the crust because of whatever reason?? HAHAHA.. one reason being, we should not waste food!! When there are kids starving in faraway countries and here you are being a picky eater about the crust...

And that only spoiled kids ask for sandwiches made with bread with curst cut out?? HAHAHA 🤣😆

Well... that was one thing my mom could never tell us because she violated this rule all the time!!

So when I made this bread and it came out just as yummy, soft and pillowy soft as how I remember it many many years ago, I was so tempted to just dig out the center and eat it - just like how my mom did... 😂🤣😂

What is special about this Milk Bread?

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Milk Bread for Bread Machine with No Tangzhong

JinJoo — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:16:12 +0000

Milk Bread is the most favorite bread in Korea, Japan and many Asian countries. This buttery milk bread is pillowy soft, light, delicious and totally addicting!! It comes out just like my original recipe but now you can make the same in the bread machine! This Milk Bread recipe has been one of my top
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Korean Street Toast (Gilgeori Toast 길거리 토스트)

JinJoo — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:18:52 +0000

Korean Street Toast is a grilled egg omelette sandwich filled with crunchy veggies and cheese. It's a wonderful medley of flavors - buttery, savory, crunchy and even is a bit salty and sweet. It also has great chewy and crunchy texture in addition to the gooey melted cheese so it's bound to satisfy all your cravings!

[caption id="attachment_15586" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Korean street toast sandwich[/caption]

This Korean Street Toast was most popular when I was in college, it was a filling toast that you could get from street carts on your way to work or school. I didn't get to have it too many times though because, for some reason, this was not a food that many girls ate on the street. Usually, only men ate these. I guess the sandwich was too hearty for dainty girls.. lol..

Also, it didn't help that I was a very shy girl (I'm still shy and is the reason why I don't like to show my face on pictures or videos) back then and I just couldn't get myself to go near the street cart to buy the sandwich. And even if I had the courage to buy it, how would I eat it on the street?

I probably missed a lot of yummy street food because of my shyness.. haha..

In Korean, this is called Gilgeori Toast (길거리 토스트), this filling and flavorful breakfast sandwich has mostly disappeared for the last 20 some years and have now become popular again. But of course, with a modern twist - like adding mozzarella cheese (which was very scarce when I was in college). Now, Koreans love to add mozzarella cheese to just about everything from tteokbokki to hotteok.

Anyway, this came to mind because I was trying to think of something that would go well with Dalgona Coffee which has been the latest craze in this tough time of isolation with so many being confined in their homes. I look forward to the day when all this will be in the past and just a memory.

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Quick Bungeoppang in 10 min Using Crescent Dough

JinJoo — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:20:38 +0000

Quick Bungeoppang is my new take on the popular Korean fish-shaped bread that’s filled with sweet fillings like sweet red bean paste and is sold as snacks in the streets of Seoul. Using the ready-made crescent dough allows you to make it in just 10 minutes while still yielding yummy results. So please TRY IT!!
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Sweet Rice Mini Bundt Cake with Freshly Milled Sweet Rice Flour

JinJoo — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:02:07 +0000

Sweet Rice Mini Bundt Cake is an updated tteokppang version that uses freshly milled sweet rice flour instead of regular store bought dry flour. Using freshly milled sweet rice flour gives this cake a corn bread like texture with a crunchy crust on the outside and a fabulously springy and chewy on the inside. The recipe has been modified to have a more cake like texture than my original recipe.

[caption id="attachment_12418" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Sweet Rice Mini Bundt Cakes[/caption]

** This is a sponsored post for NutriMill Harvest but all opinions are my own.**

Naturally gluten free and delicious, this sweet rice mini bundt cake recipe is a spin off of my original Tteokppang recipe which is an oven baked Korean fusion dessert. Now, tteok means 'rice cake' in Korean and Ppang means 'bread', and this is indeed a fusion of the two - it uses the common cake ingredients of egg, butter, milk and vanilla extract but it uses sweet rice flour instead of regular wheat flour.

Although there's no way of finding the origin of this dessert, I am quite sure it was something that was created by Korean Americans living in the US because I never had or heard of this while growing up in Korea. Only after coming to US, did I hear about this yummy creation.

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Need a Korean Dessert? Try this Easy Baked Yakwa!

JinJoo — Fri, 06 May 2016 19:24:34 +0000

When it comes to Korean desserts, sadly, there are very few that you can make at home without a lot of fuss. So I was extra excited when I heard that there was a new baked version of Yakwa/Yagkwa – the Korean dessert that is traditionally fried and coated in ginger honey syrup. I always
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Fish-shaped bread filled with sweet red beans (붕어빵 Bungeoppang)

JinJoo — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:40:59 +0000

Fish-shaped bread with sweet red bean filling is probably what you will say if you were trying to describe this cute Korean snack to someone if you didn’t know the name. Or I guess you can always call it “whatchamacallit”! haha..that is becoming more of my favorite word these days… Bungeoppang (pronounced “boong + uh +
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Gluten Free Sweet Red Bean Oven Rice Cake (떡빵 Tteok Ppang)

JinJoo — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:22:15 +0000

This deliciously addictive Gluten Free Sweet Red Bean Oven Rice Cake has the best of both worlds – the rich buttery taste of a regular cake but has the chewy(but not overly chewy) smooth texture of a rice cake. Koreans, especially those who live outside of Korea love this cake because it reminds them of
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