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- Hi everybody.
It's the end of the year.
I wanna celebrate with some sweet things,
plus super duper easy and fast.
I can also say this is kind of a healthy candy.
How is it possible? (chuckling)
Because it's made with homemade rice syrup.
You guys watched my previous video?
It's how to make homemade rice syrup.
This is homemade rice syrup.
This rice syrup is used in Korean cuisine in so many ways.
Sometimes we even use it in side dishes
like stir fried anchovies,
or beans and to make them sweet and shiny.
And also, we make desserts and snacks.
With this rice syrup, I'll make candy.
Yeot-gangjeong.
In English, I can say crunchy nut candy.
I'm going to use 1 cup of homemade rice syrup
and 3 cups nuts.
One versus three.
A variety of nuts.
I use these mixed nuts.
It has cashews, almonds, pistachios and pecans.
If you like to use only one kind,
of course, you can do it.
Like peanuts.
You can use peanuts or sesame seeds.
You can add any nuts or nutty stuff you want.
I like to add more pistachios.
(nuts rumbling)
Two and
1 cup pistachios.
And see, just shake this through a strainer
Look at this.
Remove this.
And these are all roasted.
All cooked and roasted, very crunchy.
Okay, I will set aside here
and then let's measure 1 cup.
Oh my!
So I'm going to put this here.
It smells sweet already.
I like to get all of this.
Let's heat.
Rice syrup density is always different.
So today I'm going to show you when
we can stop this and mix it together.
Now, I started with medium-high heat
until the bubbles start.
It starts bubbling now.
I'm going to turn down the heat to medium.
Just stir gently.
When I have to turn it off
is when these bubbles are getting bigger and bigger
and then eventually, it fills this whole entire pan.
to just one bubble.
Then quickly stop cooking.
Stir this.
This is my parchment paper.
You need parchment paper
or on a baking pan, add some olive oil
or any cooking oil. Brush it on the pan.
But if you have parchment paper, you don't need that.
You see, this bubble, big one here, big one,
Then stir it.
(bubbling)
Wow, getting bigger.
Look at that, almost one bubble.
But still, I'm going to wait.
(playful music)
Okay, so the pan is full of this bubble, right?
Then turn off.
And then add the nuts.
Pour this.
(paper rustling)
I press down and make a shape.
Isn't it pretty? So pretty!
I'm going to wait around 10 minutes.
You see this mixture,
there was a lot of sticky stuff.
I added around 1 cup water and boiled.
And then I made tea.
(syrup pouring)
It's kind of a bonus. (laughs)
(slurping)
Good, very earthy flavor.
I waited for 10 minutes.
Let's cut it.
I cut it one by one.
I don't want to break this.
I just cut it into usual candy size.
Here you go.
Candy.
I made this candy for you!
Yeot-gangjeong.
You see? Beautiful.
This is pistachio.
The color is green, so it's really pretty.
Now I will show you how it is made
with just store bought rice syrup.
Store bought rice syrup will never ever make one bubble.
I like to make a small portion.
This is 1/3 cup rice syrup.
And 1 cup nuts.
Rice syrup.
I just boiled only 2 minutes over medium heat.
Then stir this.
As you see, small size of bubbles are full.
So I'm cooking over medium heat
and when you do this,
When I just lift a little bit of this with my wooden spoon
and do this in the air,
You wanna see like a thread.
See? Bubbles are always small.
It never goes into one large bubble.
This is store bought rice syrup.
Lift this and check out a thread.
Can you see this?
I see some threads flying.
Oh, it's flying over. (laughs)
Did you see it?
Okay.
And then add this.
Turn off.
And mix.
(paper rustling)
Make a rectangular shape.
You can cut it to candy.
We made a nice bar.
And upside down.
And I'm going to show you, this is...
This is made with homemade rice syrup.
And this is made with store bought rice syrup.
Let's cut it.
You see?
Look at this.
(crunching)
So good, so nutty!
Nutty because as you see, it has a lot of nuts inside. Very tasty!
Also, it'll be a good gift for your loved ones.
Wrap this.
I'm using this candy wrapper
and twist this
like this.
Isn't it pretty?
I showed you how to make Korean traditional candy.
Yeot-gangjeong.
In English, crunchy nut candy.
Enjoy my recipe.
Happy holidays!
Bye.
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