''Jeonggwa'' () is a crispy, chewy '' hangwa'' (traditional Korean confection) with vivid colors and a translucent look. It can be made by boiling sliced fruits,

root In vascular plants, the roots are the plant organ, organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often bel ...

s, or

seed In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be Sowing, sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds ...

s in honey, '' mullyeot'' (rice syrup), or sugar water, then drying the slices, and optionally shaping them into flowers or other decorative forms. The

candied fruit Candied fruit, also known as glacé fruit, is whole fruit, smaller pieces of fruit, or pieces of peel (fruit), peel, placed in heated sugar syrup, which absorbs the moisture from within the fruit and eventually Food preservation, preserves it. ...

s, roots, or seeds may have the similar texture to jam,

marmalade Marmalade (from the Portuguese ''marmelada'') is a fruit preserves, fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. The well-known version is made from bitter orange. It also has been made from lemons ...

, or jelly.

Types

Common ingredients include yuja,

quince The quince (; ''Cydonia oblonga'') is the sole member of the genus ''Cydonia'' in the Malinae subtribe (which contains apples, pears, and other fruits) of the Rosaceae family. It is a deciduous tree that bears hard, aromatic bright golden-yel ...

apricot An apricot (, ) is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ''Prunus''. Usually an apricot is from the species '' P. armeniaca'', but the fruits of the other species in ''Prunus'' sect. ''Armeniaca'' are also ...

s, lotus roots,

radish The radish (''Raphanus sativus'') is a flowering plant in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. Its large taproot is commonly used as a root vegetable, although the entire plant is edible and its leaves are sometimes used as a leaf vegetable. Origina ...

es,

carrot The carrot ('' Daucus carota'' subsp. ''sativus'') is a root vegetable, typically orange in colour, though heirloom variants including purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild ...

ginseng Ginseng () is the root of plants in the genus ''Panax'', such as South China ginseng (''Panax notoginseng, P. notoginseng''), Korean ginseng (''Panax ginseng, P. ginseng''), and American ginseng (''American ginseng, P. quinquefol ...

, balloon flower roots,

ginger Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of l ...

s, burdock roots, bamboo shoots, and

winter melon ''Benincasa hispida'', the wax gourd, also called ash gourd, white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is nat ...

s. If water is boiled first with honey (and often with spices such as

cinnamon Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, biscuits, b ...

and ginger) and dried fruit is added later, it is called '' sujeonggwa'' (; "water ''jeonggwa''") and served cold as a beverage.

Miljeonggwa

* ''Aengdu-jeonggwa'' () – candied Korean cherry * ''Boksunga-jeonggwa'' () – candied

peach The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and Agriculture, cultivated in China. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and the glossy-skinned, non-fuzzy varieties called necta ...

* ''Cheongmae-jeonggwa'' () – candied green Korean plum * ''Cheonmundong-jeonggwa'' () – candied Chinese asparagus * ''Dallae-jeonggwa'' () – candied Korean wild chive * ''Danggeun-jeonggwa'' () – candied

* ''Deuljjuk-jeonggwa'' () – candied bog bilberry * ''Donga-jeonggwa'' () – candied

* ''Doraji-jeonggwa'' () – candied balloon flower root * ''Gyul-jeonggwa'' () – candied

citrus fruit ''Citrus'' is a genus of flowering plant, flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae. Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as Orange (fruit), oranges, Mandarin orange, mandarins, lemons, grapefruits, ...

* ''Haengin-jeonggwa'' () – candied

apricot kernel An apricot kernel is the apricot seed located within the fruit endocarp, which forms a hard shell around the seed called the pyrena (stone or pit). The kernel contains amygdalin, a poisonous compound, in concentrations that vary between cultiv ...

* '' Hyangseolgo'' () – candied munbae * ''Insam-jeonggwa'' () – candied Korean ginseng * ''Juksun-jeonggwa'' () – candied bamboo shoot * ''Meoru-jeonggwa'' () – candied crimson grapevine berry * ''Mogwa-jeonggwa'' () – candied Chinese quince * ''Saenggang-jeonggwa'' () – candied

* ''Salgu-jeonggwa'' () – candied

* ''Yeongeun-jeonggwa'' () – candied lotus root * ''Yuja-jeonggwa'' () – candied yuja

Sujeonggwa

* '' Sujeonggwa'' (; "

punch")

Gallery

Hodu-jeonggwa and maejapgwa.jpg, ''Hodu-jeonggwa'' (candied

walnut A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus '' Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an i ...

) and '' maejapgwa'' Korean desserts.jpg, '' Yeotgangjeong'' and ''saenggang-jeonggwa'' (candied

) Korean hangwa-Danggeun jeonggwa-01.jpg, ''Danggeun-jeonggwa'' (candied

) Sagwa jeonggwa (apple sweet).jpg, ''Sagwa-jeonggwa'' (candied

apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

) Geumgyul jeonggwa (kumquat sweet) drying process.jpg, Drying ''geumgyul-jeonggwa'' (candied

kumquat Kumquats ( ), or cumquats in Australian English, are a group of small, angiosperm, fruit-bearing trees in the family Rutaceae. Their taxonomy is disputed. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus ''Fortunella'' or plac ...

) on a drying rack

References

Hangwa {{Korea-dessert-stub

Types

Miljeonggwa

Sujeonggwa

Gallery

See also

References