Meanings
- A pan-fried tteok made from glutinous rice flour or sorghum flour and stuffed with various fillings.
Bukkumi (Filled Crescent tteok)
2020, Jiu Chung, Korean Cookbook: 100+ Authentic Korean Dishes to Cook at Home2 more examples
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 PatternsOne 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
Origin
- Korean부꾸미
- Englishbukkumi
Borrowed from Korean 부꾸미 (bukkumi).
More words from Korean
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Korean 부꾸미
- 부꾸미 (bukkumi)food
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bukkumi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bukkumi
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