Yeot-gangjeong facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Yeot-gangjeong

Ttangkong-yeot-gangjeong (peanut candy bar)
Type	Hangwa Candy bar
Place of origin	Korea
Associated national cuisine	Korean cuisine
Main ingredients	Toasted seeds, nuts, beans, or puffed grains; mullyeot (rice syrup)

Yeot-gangjeong (Hangul: 엿강정) is a candy bar-like variety of hangwa (traditional Korean confection) consisting of toasted seeds, nuts, beans, or puffed grains mixed with mullyeot (rice syrup). In general households, they usually make and eat yeot-gangjeong during Korean holidays and Jesa. Or, it is made and sold as a winter snack and is usually eaten during holidays and feasts.

Preparation

Use pine nuts as they are, split peanuts in two, stir-fry sesame seeds, and perilla seeds, beans, and fry rice paste. Mix the ingredients prepared by melting sugar into honey and pour bean powder or oil on a large wooden or metal plate, spread it quickly when it is hot, and cut the wheat into the right thickness with the next knife.

Pine nut, sesame, walnut, and peanut yeot-gangjeong are made of diamond-shaped or corrugated patterns, and rice paste yeot-gangjeong are recommended to be rounded to the size of a tennis ball.

Gallery

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  Cutting yeot-gangjeong

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  Black sesame yeot-gangjeong

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  Black soybean yeot-gangjeong

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  Peanut, puffed rice, and raisin yeot-gangjeong

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  Puffed rice yeot-gangjeong

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  Puffed rice and raisin yeot-gangjeong

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  Sesame yeot-gangjeong

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  Walnut yeot-gangjeong