How To Make Korean Watermelon Punch (Subak Hwachae)
Cool yourself down with something different this summer. This hwachae is a Korean fruit punch. This recipe has watermelon but is also customizable.
Ingredients
- 2 cup watermelon, balled or cubed
- 1 1⁄2 cup honeydew melon
- 16 rice cake balls, (gyeongdan)- optional
- 2 cup ginger ale
- 3 tbsp Korean drinking vinegar, or pomegranate or cranberry juice
- 1 tbsp pine nuts, for garnish - optional
For Optional Rice Cake Balls:
- 1⁄2 cup glutinous rice powder, aka sweet rice powder
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1⁄16 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp boiling hot water
Instructions
- Make optional rice cake balls (recipe below). Scoop out watermelon and honeydew with a melon-baller. (Or, cut into about 1-inch cubes.) Place them in a large bowl along with any juice from the fruits.
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Add the ginger ale and the drinking vinegar (or pomegranate or cranberry juice) to the fruits. Stir gently.
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Taste the drink and adjust acidity and/or sweetness by adding more drinking vinegar (or juice and/or sugar).
Optional rice cake balls:
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Mix the rice powder, sugar and salt in a bowl. Mix in the boiling hot water with a spoon. When cool enough to handle, knead by hand until a dough is formed.
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Shape the dough into a ¾-inch thick cylinder. Cut into (or pinch of ¾-inch pieces. Roll each piece between the palms to make a small ball.
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Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add the rice cake balls. Cook until all the balls float.
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Transfer to a large bowl with cold water to cool. Drain.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 62g
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- Calcium: 85mg
- Calories: 286kcal
- Carbohydrates: 69g
- Fat: 3g
- Fiber: 5g
- Iron: 2mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g
- Potassium: 1375mg
- Protein: 4g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Sodium: 67548mg
- Vitamin A: 709IU
- Vitamin C: 106mg
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