K-Obsessed: Check Out This Easy Recipe Of ‘Jinny’s Kitchen’s’ Yakgwa, The Korean Honey Cookie

Yakgwa is a classic deep-fried honey cookie that is prepared with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice. Yakgwa consists of two syllables, ‘yak’ which means ‘medicine’, and ‘gwa’ which means ‘confection’, so it means ‘medicinal confection’.

Yakgwa is a fried cookie coated in honey-ginger syrup. It is one of the most popular and traditional Korean sweets. These sweets come in the form of flowers or squares or diamond-shaped pieces. These are usually taken as snacks. Recently we even saw it in ‘Jinny's Kitchen’ starring Lee Seo-jin, Park Seo-joon, Choi Woo-shik, Kim Tae-hyung (BTS’s V), and Jung Yu-mi.

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These delicious cookies are served at special ceremonies and occasions, like weddings, birthdays, and Korean Thanksgiving (Chuseok). Check out this easy recipe to make these delicious honey cookies at home:

Ingredients For Yakgwa (Korean Honey Cookie)

2 cups of flour

2 cup honey

1/4 cup sesame oil

1/2 cup brown rice (malt) syrup

1-inch ginger

2-3 tbsp oil

1 tsp roasted sesame seeds

1/4 cup chopped almonds

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How To Make Yakgwa (Korean Honey Cookie)

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1. In a medium size mixing bowl, add the flour, and sesame oil and mix this by hand. Keep doing it until the big lumps are gone and the flour is well blended with the oil. Cover and keep it aside.

2. In another bowl whisk honey and 1/2 cup of water together.

3. Now add this honey liquid to the flour mix and knead it gently with your hands to form a dough.

4. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/2 inch on a surface dusted with flour.

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5. Cut the dough into 1-inch-long strips and cut it into diamond or rectangular shapes. Now keep it aside.

6. To prepare the syrup, combine the honey, ginger, and rice malt syrup, cook the mixture over medium heat, and boil it.

7. Now pour it carefully onto another flat pan/dish large enough to hold the cookies in a single layer.

8. Now, we'll fry these cookies in a frying pan. And heat the oil over medium heat.

9. Cook cookies in tiny batches, carefully turning them as they puff up and float for 4 to 5 minutes.

10. Put the flame on a high flame and continue frying until the yakgwa turns golden brown.

11. After putting all of the yakgwa in the syrup, give each one a quick turnover to coat.

12. Soak for two to three hours in the syrup. And use a spoon to transfer these cookies to a clean dish.

13. Now it's ready to serve, garnish it with almonds and sesame seeds.

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