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Mujigae-tteok
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Alternative names Rainbow rice cake
Type Tteok
Place of origin Korea
Associated national cuisine Korean cuisine
Main ingredients Rice flour
Korean name
Hangul
무지개떡
Revised Romanization mujigae-tteok
McCune–Reischauer mujigae-ttŏk
IPA [mu.dʑ.gɛ.t͈ʌk̚]
Hangul
색떡
Hanja
色-
Revised Romanization saektteok
McCune–Reischauer saekttŏk
IPA [sɛk̚.t͈ʌk̚]
Hangul
색편
Hanja
色-
Revised Romanization saekpyeon
McCune–Reischauer saekp'yŏn
IPA [sɛk̚.pʰjʌn]

Mujigae-tteok (Hangul: 무지개떡) or rainbow rice cake is a layered tteok (rice cake) of different colors resembling a rainbow. It is used for special occasions such as a banquet, party, or feast like doljanchi (first birthday), hwangapjanchi (60th birthday). Alternative names for mujigae-tteok include saektteok (색떡) and saekpyeon (색편), both of which means "colored rice cakes".

Preparation

The addition of food coloring makes mujigae-tteok different from the other varieties of seolgi-tteok, such as white baek-seolgi. It is made by steaming sweetened non-glutinous rice flour in a siru (steamer). Sweetened rice flour is made by first grinding soaked rice and mixing it with honey or sugar solution. The flour is then rubbed between the palms for uniform mixing of the ingredients and finally sieved. Food colorings, commonly gardenia (yellow), rock tripe powder (grey), mugwort powder (green), and devil's-tongue powder (pink), are then added and mixed with small amount of water. Colored and white (uncolored) rice flour are then laid on a cloth-lined siru in about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) thick layers and steamed.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Mujigae tteok para niños

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