Top 5 basic Bingsu recipes

Bingsu is a highly popular summer dessert in Korea and this has been spread to East Asia and Europe. Once you try the mouth-melting soft shaved ice with toppings, you will keep having cravings for this. Our Snowvan machine will create the amazing texture of shaved ice that feel like snowflakes melt in the mouth. Here are the popular recipes to make best Bingsu. 

1. Milk Bingsu

4 Cups of whole milk + 1/4 cup of condensed milk 

This is a base for all other Bingsu. Rather than using ice made with water, ice with whole milk has much richer and creamier flavor. On top of this base, you can add any toppings.                   

2. Red Bean Bingsu (Patbingsu)

Milk Bingsu + add 1/2 cup of sweet red bean paste (mix with boiled red bean & sugar 1:1 ratio) 

This is traditional original Korean Bingsu and this can be served with other toppings – nuts, rice cake or any other fruits.  

3. Fruit Bingsu

Milk Bingsu + Sweet Red bean paste (optional) + lots of fruits  + adding fruit syrup or ice cream on top

The popular fruit options are mango, strawberry, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, blueberry, etc.

4. Various powder toppings

Milk Bingsu + powder (green tea powder, black sesame, cocoa powder, soybean powder, etc)

Simply adding these powders to the milk Bingsu will create another level of shaved ice flavors. Examples are green tea power will make green tea bingsu. Recently, black sesame bingsu is very popular. These also can mix with other toppings – rice cake, ice cream, nuts and any other fruits. 

5. More options – Cookies, cheese cake, jellies, chocolate chips, whipped cream and many more. 

Milk Bingsu + just mix & match!! 

The whole concept of this Bingsu is creating flavors by mixing various toppings on top of the shaved ice. The options are wide open and many new menus have been adding up, for examples Oreo cookies, Chocolate sticks, ice creams, pieces of cheese cake, various types of jellies, etc. Simply having milk base Bingsu only or adding many variety of toppings together will give you many different experiences.