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Flowers on songpyeon, decorative rice cake for Chuseok
Kreamy Vegan

Flowers on Songpyeon

Add a little flower on your songpyeon to make it more fun!
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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

White songpyeon ingredients
  • 200 g Rice flour
  • 2 g Salt
  • 160 ml Hot water 2/3 cup
Green songpyeon ingredients
  • 200 g Rice flour
  • 2 g Mugwort powder
  • 1 g Spirulina powder
  • 2 g Salt
  • 180 ml Hot water 2/3 cup
Yellow dough (for decoration)
  • 50 g Rice flour
  • 1/8 tsp Turmeric
  • 20 ml Hot water
Pink dough (for decoration)
  • 50 g Rice flour
  • 1 g Beetroot powder
  • 20 ml Hot water
Fillings
  • 1/2 cup Sesame seeds Roasted and half-ground
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 2/3 cup Roasted soybean powder
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 2 tbsp Date syrup

Method
 

How to prepare dough
  1. Mix salt and rice flour. To make green songpyeon, add the mugwort and spirulina powder now.
  2. Bring the water to a boil, and put hot water bit by bit on the rice flour. Mix the rice flour thoroughly with a spatula as you put hot water so every part of the rice flour gets moisturized.
  3. Knead the dough for 10 minutes once the flour gets clumped. Put the dough inside a container and let it rest for 20 minutes. In the meantime, make fillings.
  4. Shape the dough into a songpyeon. To do so, please find detailed instructions below.*
How to make fillings
  1. Roast the sesame seeds in a pan or put them in the oven for 15 minutes at 160 Celsius or 320 Fahrenheit. It will turn into a golden color.
  2. Cool the sesame seeds and grind them until half of the sesame seeds are broken and half of them are intact.
  3. Mix the sesame seeds, sugar, soybean powder, salt, and 1/4 of a teaspoon.
How to shape & decorate Songpyeon
  1. Divide the dough into 20 grams each.
  2. Roll the dough into a ball.
  3. Flatten the ball into a small disk, and place a small amount of your desired filling. Usually, a 1/3 teaspoon will work.
  4. Carefully fold the dough over the filling to encase it, then pinch the edges together to seal it.
  5. Dip your fingers in some water if the dough starts to crack.
  6. Shape it into a half-moon shape.
  7. Take a small piece of purple or pink dough to make flowers. Take the flower-shaped plunge cutter tool, and make flowers.
  8. Put the pink flower on your white songpyeon.
  9. Take a small piece of dough, and add a dash of turmeric to make yellow dough. Take a very tiny dough and make it into a ball. Put it on the center part of the flower. 
  10. Repeat the same process for the green songpyeon. I like to put white flowers on the green songpyeon for a beautiful contrast of the colors, so make white flowers with a plunge cutter and put a small yellow ball in the center of the white flower.