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Matcha Green Tea and Omija Cookies are wonderfully healthy no bake Korean cookies that are also so elegant, beautiful and traditional. Called Nokcha Dasik and Omija Dasik in Korean, these are small cookies made with fine matcha powder and omija tea that’s sweetened with honey. Korean nobility enjoyed these sweets as snacks during their tea time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green Tea and Omija Cookies (Korean Dasik \ub2e4\uc2dd)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Matcha Green Tea cookies or Nokcha Dasik is a recipe that I planned to post last year when I posted my first Korean Tea Cookies (Dasik)<\/a> post back in January 2017. At the time, I wanted to post a recipe for Omija Dasik cookie but I hesitated to do it. It was because the recipes I had at that time used corn starch for both the Omija and the green tea cookie and I thought the taste and texture could be better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, when I was growing up, I never understood people who gifted us Dasik. I always thought it was one of the most useless and tasteless gifts anyone could give. Because it usually came in a very dry powdery state. When you eat one, it was simply unpleasant. I used to say – “Come on! Who eats that stuff?? Why do they give us things that may look pretty but not yummy at all??”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, now I know how they are supposed to taste. Not dry. Not too powdery. But cookies that are actually moist, flavorful and sweet. So, here I am, posting my 2nd Dasik recipe after more than a year later my 1st post. It’s because I finally feel I have a recipe that is really good enough to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and I have to thank the reader who asked me about the green tea cookie recipe! \ud83d\ude0d It finally got my lazy bum movin’ and finished up the recipe!!! BTW, a wonderful thing about these healthy Korean dasik tea cookie is that they have almost no fat and they are not overly sweet. They are also naturally VEGAN and GLUTEN FREE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditions of Green Tea and Omija Cookies<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

With Tea (\ucc28 cha):<\/strong> I already wrote about the history of Dasik (\ub2e4\uc2dd \u8336<\/span>\u98df<\/span>) in my previous post where I shared recipes for Sesame Tea cookies (white, black and yellow sesame). Just quickly, the tradition of enjoying these Korean matcha green tea cookies and other flavors with traditional Korean tea is over 400 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Health: <\/strong>These healthy tea cookies can be enjoyed not just as cookies with tea but they can also be a good nutritious snack for the  elderly and the weak . Because these are just melt in your mouth treats, it is especially good for people who find it hard to chew food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For weddings and birthdays: <\/strong>Various colored cookies that are shaped and pressed with various mold designs like lotus flower, cherry blossoms, peach, pomegranate and letters like Cha (tea) and Bok (fortune) were a way to celebrate and wish good fortune to weddings and birthdays. If you see old photos of 1 year old Birthday celebrations, you can see a tower of these cookies piled high to create an imposing table for the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different kinds and colors of Korean Tea Cookies (Dasik)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n