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It’s currently Chuseok(추석) in Korea, which is the mid-autumn harvest festival. You could think of it as Korean Thanksgiving! So I decided to make something relating to this season: yakgwa (약과)! Yak means medicine and gwa means confection. It’s one of my favorite traditional Korean snacks. I love how it combines the textures of both chewy and crispy and has a mellow sweetness. This was my very first attempt at making this confection, so I was very nervous! Haha.

I used the recipe shown on this video:
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You should definitely give this video a watch for the expert example, as this was my very first attempt at making yakgwa.
Ingredients:
Soaking syrup
600 grams grain syrup
150 grams water
10 grams ginger
30 grams citron extract, optional
Sugar syrup
80 grams sugar
20 grams starch syrup
100 grams water
Dough
300 grams flour
3g (1 heaping teaspoon) cinnamon
3g (3/4 teaspoon) salt
Some cracks of pepper
24 grams sesame oil
24 grams cooking oil
70g soju
63g sugar syrup, previously made
Cooking oil, for frying

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Soaking Syrup
1:41 Sugar Syrup
2:05 Dough
4:12 Rolling
5:11 Shaping
5:54 Frying
7:23 Soaking
8:47 Enjoy!

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