[Korean] Gun bam (baked chestnuts)

Baked chestnuts are an easy and wellbeing snack for fall and winter. This story has some tips for picking out good chestnuts.

Ingredient:

Fresh chestnuts!

Method:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Rinse the chestnuts in cold water.

Pierce the skin of the chestnuts before you cook them, or they'll explode in the oven! Different people prefer different ways of cutting through the shell. Here is an easy and effective way (cut down the middle):

Put some foil on an oven tray. Put your chestnuts onto the tray and add a little bit of water. You can add a little more water half or three-quarters of the way through cooking if it has evaporated. Cook at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30 minutes.

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30 minutes later:

When they've cooled a little bit (but while they're still hot), you can easily remove the shells and eat the chestnuts.

[Korean] Green tea Ice cream

This is soft ice cream with green tea powder. The bitter taste of green tea goes well with sweet taste of ice cream.

Green-Tea Ice cream


Ingredients [click here for details]
300+100 ml milk
4Tbsp sugar
2Tbsp corn syrup
1Tbsp corn starch
2Tbsp green tea powder
200ml whipping cream

Cooking Instruction
1. Heat 300ml of milk, 4 Tbsp of sugar and 2 Tbsp of corn syrup with medium heat.


2. In another bowl, add 1 Tbsp of corn starch and 2Tbsp of green tea powder into 100ml of milk.
Stir well till no powder clumps remain.


3. Add green tea & milk mix to the hot milk from step 1, and keep heating for 10 minutes. The mix should become thicker.


4. Cool the mix in a refrigerator. Meanwhile, whip the cold whipping cream. When the mix cools down, mix it with whipped cream.


5. Keep it in a freezer, and fluff it with a fork often.

[Korean] Omija hwa-chae, five-taste-berries fruit punch

Omija means five-taste-berries in Korean. To find out the benefit of omija, click here.
We usually make a hot tea with omija by boiling omija for a longtime and adding honey, but you can enjoy it as fruit punch during summer.
You can buy this at Korean markets. 
[notice] Pregnant women are not supposed to eat this.



Omija fruit punch
Korean name : Omija Hwa-chae



Cooking Instruction

1. Carefully open 2 L of the bottle of carbonated water, or it will overflow. Let the carbonation come out of bottle slowly.


2. Put 1/4 cup of omija in the bottle.


3. Leave it alone for at least overnight to extract the flavor out of it. If you like carbonated drinks, keep it in a refrigerator.  Otherwise, leave it outside and open the lid occasionally to let the carbonation come out.


4. Cut up some fruits as much as you want to serve. You can use apples, nectarines, strawberries, kiwi, melons, and etc. Mix fruits with omija water.




How to Serve
Put it in a large glass bowl like punch. Serve it coolly.
Individuals can add honey in it as they like, and you don't eat omija berries.


 

[Korean] Green Tea Walnut Rice Cake Rolls

Green Tea Walnut Rice Cake Rolls (serves 2)
   Korean name : nohk-cha-ho-doo-chap-ssal-ddeok-roll
   Green tea : nohk-cha
    Walnut : ho-doo
    Sweet rice : chap-ssal
    Rice cake : ddeok




Ingredients [click here for details]

1 cup sweet rice flour
2/3 cup water
3 Tbsp sugar
1/3 cup walnuts, crushed (or any kind of nuts)
1 Tbsp Green tea powder (or ginger powder or cinnamon powder would be good, too)
canola oil


Cooking Instruction

1. In a bowl, mix 1 Tbsp of greem tea powder(or ginger/cinnamon powder) with crushed walnuts(or other nuts).


2. In another bowl, put 1 cup of sweet rice flour and 3 Tbsp of sugar.
Pour 1/2~2/3 cup of water in it, and stir well.


3. Put a piece of cling wrap over the bowl and poke a little hole in it for ventilation.
Microwave for 2 minutes.
After stirring, microwave for another 2 minutes.


4. Pour oil on a cutting board. Pour rice dough while hot.
Oil a piece of cling wrap completely, cover rice dough with it.
Roll rice flour into a thin sheet.






5. Distribute the walnut and green tea mixture evenly over the rice cake.


6. Roll it!



7. Slice it into 1 inch segments.




How to Serve

Display the rolls on a plate, and enjoy!