World Flavors Cookbook

Songpyeon (Half-moon Rice Cakes)

Small, half-moon shaped rice cakes made of glutinous rice flour and filled with sweet ingredients, traditionally steamed on a bed of pine needles.

Cuisine: South Korea

Ingredients

• Rice flour, water
• Fillings: sweetened sesame seeds, honey, honey-bean paste, chestnuts
• Pine needles for steaming

Instructions

1. Knead rice flour with hot water into a dough.
2. Take small pieces of dough, flatten, add filling, and shape into a half-moon.
3. Steam over a layer of pine needles for 20 minutes.
4. Rinse in cold water and coat with sesame oil.