Yaksik, (sweet rice with nuts and jujubes)
Dec 14, 2012
Yaksik is a sweet dish made with steamed glutinous rice, honey, soy sauce, jujubes, chestnuts and pine nuts. It may also be called yakbap (medicinal rice). It is said that yaksik was prepared and served to the crows as a reward for saving the king’s life in the Silla Kingdom.Ingredients:● 1 1/2 cups glutinous rice, 8 cups rice steaming water ● Salt water: 3 tbsp water, 1/2 salt ● 5 jujubes, 3 chestnuts, 1 tsp pine nuts ● Jujube stone tea: 5 jujube stones, 1 cup water ● Sweet steamed rice seasoni