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bukkumi

bukkumi noun: a pan-fried tteok made from glutinous rice flour or sorghum flour and stuffed with various fillings.

Noun

bukkumi (plural bukkumi)

  1. A pan-fried tteok made from glutinous rice flour or sorghum flour and stuffed with various fillings.
    • When steamed rice cakes were served for feasts or rituals, they were shaped into small, pretty forms, such as hwajeon, pan-fried rice cakes with flower petals, juak, made with jujube and honey, and bukkumi, made with red bean.2007, Jae-Sik Suh, Korean Patterns
    • One sweet Tteok is called Bukkumi, which is made with a glutinous rice or susu (millet) flour dough stuffed with honey, nuts, cinnamon and sweetened red bean.2013, Mark McWilliams, Wrapped & Stuffed Foods: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012

Forms of bukkumi

pluralbukkumi

Origin of bukkumi

Borrowed from Korean 부꾸미 (bukkumi).

Questions about bukkumi

What does bukkumi mean?
Bukkumi means a pan-fried tteok made from glutinous rice flour or sorghum flour and stuffed with various fillings.
What part of speech is bukkumi?
Bukkumi is a noun.
What is the plural of bukkumi?
The plural of bukkumi is bukkumi.

Words near bukkumi in the dictionary

  1. bukkakes
  2. bukkehorn
  3. bukkehorns
  4. bukkenade
  5. Bukkulla
  6. bukkumi
  7. buko
  8. buko juice
  9. buko juices
  10. buko pie
  11. buko pies

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