Gaepi-tteok


Gaepi-tteok or baram-tteok is a half-moon-shaped tteok made with non-glutinous rice flour and filled with white adzuki bean paste.

Preparation

Non-glutinous rice flour is steamed in siru and pounded in jeolgu to form a dough. It is then cut into small pieces, rolled out flat and round, and filled with geopipat-so and sealed. The filling can be made by husking adzuki beans, steaming and seasoning it with salt, and sieving it. Sesame oil is brushed on each tteok to prevent it from sticking.

Varieties

can be pounded together with steamed rice flour to make a green-colored dough. In Gangwon Province, steamed rice flour is pounded with deltoid synurus, also resulting in a green dough. To make a pink dough, the endodermis of Korean red pine is used.
Variants containing sweet mung bean paste instead of white adzuki bean paste are very common, particularly among the Korean communities in Los Angeles, California.