15-Minute Mochi – Easy Korean Rice Cake with Red Bean (팥 찹쌀떡) – Korean Dessert

You might know Korean rice cakes as ‘mochi’. You’ve probably tasted or seen mochi ice-cream or seen it at your local Asian grocery store. In Korean, it’s called “Chap-Ssal-Ddeok”. These are made from a rice-flour dough and filled with bean paste or a powdered nut and honey mixture.

Traditional rice cakes are very time-and-labor intensive. Here, we show you how to make your own red bean rice cakes in 15-minutes, start-to-finish.

The video shows how to make a batch of six-to-eight ‘mochi’ rice cakes. You can make larger batches, just make sure to increase the cooking-mixing intervals. For one-cup of glutinous rice flour in our rice cake recipe, you’ll cook four-or-five times at 45-to-60 seconds each time.

Use our ‘mochi’ rice cake recipe as a guide. Your microwave, glutinous rice flour and other variables will affect cooking and mixing time.

Shopping list:
– Glutinous rice flour (also sold as ‘sweet’ rice flour)
– Sweet red bean paste
– Sugar
– Salt

For the full ‘mochi’ red bean rice cake recipe, go to for more information.

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