{"id":10002,"date":"2023-09-22T17:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T00:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimchimari.com\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T00:52:56","slug":"how-to-make-songpyeon-for-chuseok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimchimari.com\/how-to-make-songpyeon-for-chuseok\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Songpyeon for Chuseok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to make Songpyeon for Chuseok! I share how to make them in 5 colors – white, yellow, green, purple and pink\/red and then with 3 different fillings. Including instructions for steaming 3 ways – on the stovetop, Instant Pot and the Korean pressurized rice cooker<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Songpyeon for Chuseok (Korean Rice Cakes with Pine Needles)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Songpyeon for a Happy Chuseok!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Songpyeon is a special rice treat made in the Korean home during Chuseok <\/a>(\u79cb\u5915) to celebrate the year’s harvest and to wish every family member good health. Songpyeon is made from 100% short grain rice cake dough that’s filled with various fillings then hand shaped and steamed. When steaming, it is traditionally steamed on top of a layer of pine needles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pine needles<\/strong><\/em> \ud83c\udf32 add a wonderful evergreen aroma and also act as a non-stick liner preventing Songpyeon from sticking to the steamer. Additionally, Korean ancestors also believed that by steaming the rice cakes with the pine needles, the ‘chi’ of the pine tree gets absorbed into the rice cakes then that ‘chi’ transfers on to the person who eats them, helping them become healthy and strong like the pine trees<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09 \ud83c\udf32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rice cake dough is by default white but can be colored and flavored with various traditional ingredients like below –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different colors of Songpyeon \uc1a1\ud3b8 and how Koreans naturally color them<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n