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Dasik are small, beautiful pressed sweets served with tea, stamped with patterns of flowers and good-luck symbols. Black and white sesame dasik are made by grinding toasted seeds and binding them with syrup. They need no baking and are naturally rich in healthy fats.
Per serving: 84 calories · 1.7 g net carbs · 3 g protein · 7 g fat (calculated from the ingredients)
What You’ll Need
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup toasted black sesame seeds
- 1/2 cup toasted white sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup allulose
- 1 tablespoon water
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Grind the black sesame seeds in a spice grinder or mortar until they are fine and start to clump. Grind the white seeds separately.
- Simmer the allulose, water and salt in a small saucepan for 1 minute until syrupy.
- Divide the syrup between the two bowls of ground sesame and mix each into a firm dough.
- Press small balls of dough into a dasik mold or a small cookie stamp, then tap them out onto a plate. Alternatively, roll into balls and press with the back of a patterned spoon.
- Let the dasik firm up for 30 minutes before serving.
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About This Dish
Dasik means "tea food," and these pressed sweets were made to accompany tea in the royal court and aristocratic homes of the Joseon dynasty. The wooden molds, dasikpan, are carved with patterns of flowers, fish, characters for long life and good fortune. Antique dasikpan are now collected as folk art. Dasik can be made from many ingredients, including pine pollen, chestnuts, black sesame and green tea. They are still served at weddings and traditional tea ceremonies.
This recipe is from The Ultimate Korean Keto Cookbook by Gisele Costello, Chapter 11: Desserts (N Seoul Tower). See all Korean recipes